Cretes Long fibre line
Modular flax and hemp scutching line — premium long fibre
Modular flax and hemp scutching line — premium long fibre
Modular flax and hemp scutching line — premium long fibre
Modular scutching (beating) line for long flax and hemp fibre — the key installation that determines the quality of the final product. CRETES multi-stage beating processes the raw material in stages, preserving fibre length and strength, so that it ends up in the long fibre class, the most highly valued in textile processing. The line is built modularly — from feeding and loosening, through beating, to cleaning of by-products and sorting — and can be expanded in stages. It processes weakly and strongly retted raw material (retted / non-retted). CRETES (Wevelgem, West Flanders) belongs to Valtech Group and designs complete “turnkey” lines. Capacity, power and hall area result from the specific project, not from a single catalogue set of figures.
Long fibre line — specyfikacja
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The most common questions we hear from farms before purchase.
We have collected the questions we most often hear from farms before purchase — and the answers from our engineers. Every answer is based on verified knowledge of the machine.
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Answers based on the experience of thousands of farms in Europe.
CRETES builds lines to order, so capacity, power and hall area depend on the design and the type of raw material (flax / hemp). We provide these in the line concept, which we prepare for your raw material and target capacity.
Yes — a single processing line handles both raw materials, both lightly and heavily retted (retted / non-retted). Beating parameters are matched to the raw material in the design.
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