Fibre - flax - short - scutched (market for)

The activity generating the emissions is market for fibre, flax, short, scutched. The Reference Product is fibre, flax, short, scutched. The product fibre, flax, short, scutched refers to the short, outer bast fibres of the flax stems. This product is also referred to as tow. These fibres are separated from the inner woody core (shives/hurds) of the retted flax stems during the decortication process which involves breaking and scutching. Tow fibres are shorter than the long fibres which are also separated during scutching. The next processing steps for these short scutched fibres include re-scutching, followed by cottonizing which makes them suitable for ring-spinning. Their main end-use application is in linen fabrics. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is market activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/29224/documentation