US: Levi Strauss to trial Crailar fibre in production
By Leonie Barrie | 17 August 2012
The next phase of production trials for apparel products made using the Crailar Flax fibre is about to get underway after the final large-scale commercialisation trial with Barnhardt Manufacturing was completed this month.
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