1310 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, paper cellulose-based fibres such as wood or straw).

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 016300

• cotton ginning, see 016300

• 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 206000

• manufacture of glass fibres, see 231400

• processing of textile waste into secondary raw materials, see 382100