BS EN ISO 2076:2021 - TC

This standard BS EN ISO 2076:2021 - TC Tracked Changes. Textiles. Man-made fibres. Generic names is classified in these ICS categories:

• 01.040.59 Textile and leather technology (Vocabularies)
• 59.060.20 Man-made fibres

This document defines the generic names used to designate the different categories of man-made fibres, based on a main polymer, currently manufactured on an industrial scale for textile and other purposes, together with the distinguishing attributes that characterize them. The term “man-made fibres” has been adopted for those fibres obtained by a manufacturing process, as distinct from materials which occur naturally in fibrous form.

This document gives recommendations of rules for the creation of the generic name (see Annex A).