filature

IPA: fˈɪɫʌtʃɝ

The process of drawing fibres into threads, especially the process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.
A spool or bobbin used for the above.
A place where silk is reeled onto spools.

Examples of "filature" in Sentences

One of the worst places to work was a silk factory, or filature.
Simple filature, which, through an automated continuous production line, produces bales of fibers, or
Officials say her death at a Green Bay hospital from kidney filature is linked to the E. coli outbreak that spread to at least 19 states.
In one appalling calamity, a hundred women died in a fire that engulfed a silk filature because the owner had locked them in from the outside.
In the “Thai Polyester Fiber” case we can analyze the multitude of problems encountered by two French firms involved in constructing and installing a $50-million polyester polymerization and filature plant in Thailand, in a joint venture with a major local business group.
Lebec were to fly in from Bangkok, where they were working together on the construction and installation of the Thai Polyester Fiber Plant TPF, a 1-billion-baht1 polyester polymerization and filature factory.2 TPF was the joint venture between CST and the Yipsoon Group, a family-owned textile conglomerate based in Thailand, which owned or operated more than 50% of the Thai textile industry.