13.10 — Preparation and Spinning of Textile Fibres

This class includes preparatory operations on textile fibres and the spinning of textile fibres. This can be done from varying raw materials, whether new or recycled textile materials (for example, silk, cotton, wool, vegetable or man-made fibres and paper cellulose-based fibres, such as wood or straw). This class includes: - preparatory operations on textile fibres: • reeling and washing of silk • wool scouring, i.e. degreasing and carbonising of wool and dyeing of wool fleece • carding and combing of all kinds of animal, vegetable and man-made fibres - spinning and manufacture of yarn or thread for weaving or sewing, for trade or for further processing • scutching of flax • texturising, twisting, folding, cabling and dipping of synthetic or artificial filament yarns - spinning of recycled fibres from secondary raw materials

This class also includes: - manufacture of paper yarn

This class excludes: - preparatory operations carried out in combination with agriculture, see division 01 - retting of plants bearing vegetable textile fibres (jute, flax, coir, etc.), not associated with the growing of vegetable textile fibres, see 01.63 - cotton ginning, see 01.63 - manufacture of synthetic or artificial fibres and tows, manufacture of single yarns (including high-tenacity yarn and yarn for carpets) of synthetic or artificial fibres, see 20.60 - manufacture of glass fibres, see 23.14 - processing of textile waste into secondary raw materials, see 38.21