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Latest spinning machinery strive for improvements in both quality and efficiency
Issue date:01/08/2008
ATA Journal for Asia on Textile & Apparel - Aug 2008 Issue
Source:Journal for Asia on Textile & Apparel
Changling supplies testers for spinners

The YG136A yarn evenness tester of Chinese Changling is applied to test the yarn evenness and hairiness for both pure and blended yarns of cotton, wool, silk, hemp and chemical fibers.

The tester is able to examine the level of evenness in a range of 4 tex-80k tex and that of hairiness between 4 tex and 160k tex. The test speed of yarn ranges from 4 to 400m/min while that of hairiness is at 200 or 400m/min, and the test time is between 10 seconds to 20 minutes.

The company also provides such products as a CT200 yarn evenness tester, a CT800C yarn evenness tester, a DQSS-40 electronic yarn clearer, and an XJ128 fast cotton fiber performance tester.

The CT200 offers evenness testing of cotton, wool, silk, hemp and chemical staple pure yarns and blended yarns, while the CT800C provides evenness testing of a variety of chemical filaments.

The DQSS-40 is a digital multi-functional yarn quality monitoring system using ARM control technology, whereas the XJ128 provides testing on length, strength, maturity, gloss, surface impurity and moisture regain for cotton fiber.


Da Cheng provides twistless roving frames

The FB473 twistless roving frame of China-based Da Cheng Textile Machinery is suitable for wool spinning with FB/FBL series. The FB/FBL series of wool slivering gilling machines are used for the wool slivering process, as well as spinning of wool and other fibers.

The company also supplies combing machines, namely the FB(X,Z) 256 series. Particularly for wool and hemp fibers, the machine is equipped with specially designed feeding, carding, cleaning, pulling and bobbin forming systems.

Electro-Jet offers automatic transport systems for spinners

Electro-Jet, a Spanish textile machinery manufacturer, offers automatic transport systems of bobbins, cones and cans in the spinning mill, as well as the automation in the palletizing and packing zone. These systems offer a higher rationalization of the processes, minimizing both physical efforts of workers and human mistake.

The ADR Rovematic roving frame, with flyers format to choose between 16 x 6 or 16 x 7, has a fast doffing (90 seconds). It starts automatically after this doffing, without the need of operator intervention. This allows a notable reduction of the machine stop time, increasing the production of each roving frame.

The company also supplies auxiliary machines for the cleaning and laying of tubes, cones inspection systems with an optical control, static fans and other equipment.

Innovative in-line twister from Galan


Galan's PR ring doubling and twisting machine
Galan Textile Machinery offers an innovative in-line twisting concept, namely the Up-Twister 2x1.

The new system combines the two-for-one concept as well as ring doubling and twisting concept for the production of three-ply cords in a single step. In-line parameters can be adjusted, offering high flexibility and electronical synchronization. It is optimized to produce high-quality yarns without creels.

A new range of PR ring doubling and twisting machines with rings from 100mm to 400mm is also available.

Hangzhou Xinheli composite twisters are safe and reliable

Hangzhou Xinheli Textile Machinery, a Chinese manufacturer of composite twisting machines, provides equipments used for the production of sewing threads and twisting of embroidery threads.

A new composite twisting machine, KV2008, helps boosts the output per single spindle by 16% compared to conventional models of its kind. With twist C.V.%≤1.5%, the average strength of threads produced is stronger by about 5%.

The company explains that the machines offer a high level of safety, stability and reliability as they are complied with the CE certification standards of TÜV Rheinland.

Lurgi Zimmer provides advanced spinning systems

A new BN 100+ spinning system, reducing heat losses at the spinning beam and connecting piping, is offered by Lurgi Zimmer, a member of the Air Liquide Group and subsidiary of the Lurgi.

Zimmer'polyester staple fiber technology has been developed for large production lines up to 250 tons/day in a single line and for specialties for value-added products.

The company also supplies advanced polyester polymer technologies (PET, PTT, and PBT) and polyamide polymerization technology.

In addition to large-capacity systems for commodity products, Lurgi Zimmer also offers flexible solutions for both polyester and polyamide markets such as a new lactam-water recycling system the Zimmer process and the Zimmer ASP (advanced spinning process) technology for Polyamide.

Marzoli offers productive combing system

In Marzoli's CM600N combing system, new nippers achieve a selective combing of fibers and run at a high production speed.


CM600N combing system of Marzoli
The company also provides a range of roving frames, both with and without auto-doffer. The FTSDN roving frame features flyers in a dimension of 6 inches by 16 inches, 192 spindles with a total machine length of 24 meters. The new solution allows users to improve HOK (labor spent hour to produce 100kg of yarn) of the spinning mill.

Meanwhile, the MP1N spinning frame, a fully electronic machine up to 1,344 spindles, is characterized by three winding geometry for optimized spinning, and increased bobbin weight.

Masias Maquinaria launches new direct feeding system

Masias Maquinaria from Spain has recently launched an innovative SAD MF direct feeding system, which is connected to a multi-needle quilting machine, MAMMUT.

The direct feeding system is a machine designed to feed directly micro-fibers or standard polyester fibers from bales to a multi-needle quilting machine in good synchronization and enabling the formation of a regular and controlled pad.

The company also provides a wide range of machinery in the areas of fiber preparation, carding installations, bedding installations and fiber recycling lines.

In the area of fiber preparation for the feeding, opening and blending of fibers, the following products are provided: bale openers, hopper feeders, dosing feeder weighing, fiber openers, blending and storing silos, automatic self-emptier, oiling rooms and metal separators.

For carding installations, the company offers special lines for the non-woven industry (car industry, filters, shoe industry, polyester pads), worsted and semi-worsted cards, automatic carding sets, auxiliary machines and complete plants.

In bedding installations, pillow and upholstery automatic filling machines, fiber balls making machines and opening and packing lines are available, while fiber recycling lines for different applications are also offered.

Oerlikon Saurer offers solutions for fancy yarns

Allma Fascinator ECP 1 system from Oerlikon Saurer is a hollow spindle/ring twisting machine for controlled and continuous thread and spinning effects. The spindle speeds can reach 12,000 rpm with hollow spindle and 6,500 rpm with ring spindle. A maximum of 160 spindles can be used.


Allma Fascinator ECP 1 system of Oerlikon Saurer
With a satisfactory price/performance ratio, according to the company, the machine offers good reproducibility and quality of fancy yarns produced at an improved rate of productivity.

Oerlikon Saurer also provides a winding machine for winding binder bobbins for various package formats used in the world. The Allma FlexiWinder attains a spindle speed of up to 6,000 rpm. The count range is 100-8.3 tex staple fiber and 33-330 dtex filament. It is controlled by an electronic processor control system with low energy consumption, the company says.

Pinter supplies different equipment for spinners

Spanish supplier, Pinter, offers the following groups of equipment:

  • Soft and hard core-spun attachments;

  • Fine core-spun, with special guide for fine yarns;

  • Slub yarn for ring and OE frames, multicount and multitwist attachments;

  • Merlin, spintester for special yarns;

  • Drafting systems conversions for ring and speed frames;

  • Slub tester, measuring device;

  • Spare parts for ring and speed frames; and

  • Duo-spun, double roving spinning.


    • FA.NI, a member of Pinter, supplies a wide range of products, such as Star-L individual filament detector, Star-Y individual yarn detector (worsted), Sensorfil individual yarn detector (cotton), Eureka spin monitoring system, BP-07 and BP-08 roving stop devices, T-Box control unit for preparation machines, and RFS-1 roving detectors for roving frames.

    Pulcra Chemicals provide auxiliary agents

    Pulcra Chemicals provides the auxiliary agents for short staple processing and its chemicals are derived from renewable raw materials, making the products compatible with the Eco Tex 100 standards for ecological textiles and GOTS standards for organic textiles.

    The company's Fory detergents offer good cleaning of raw wool and help processing quality superfine merino wool by balancing the forces of friction and saturation.

    More major products include lubricants of Selbana, Katax, Silkol and Spreitan, often for secondary spinning.

    Various spinning systems offered by Rieter

    Rieter has recently unveiled a number of new machines, including the K 45 compact spinning machine, the single-head SB-D 11 drawframe and the E 66 / E 76 comber.


    Rieter's new single-head SB-D 11 drawframe
    Fancy yarns, spin twist yarns and ring-spun core yarns can be spun on the newly developed G 35 ring spinning and K 45 compact spinning machines which are available in a length of up to 1,632 spindles.

    The new single-head SB-D 11 drawframe allows delivery speeds of up to 1,100 m/min with good sliver quality, while the RSB-D 40 autoleveller draw frame features increases in output up to 1,100 m/min with improvements in sliver and yarn quality. Additionally, the new SB 20 draw frame runs up to 1,000 m/min and is a double-head draw frame with can sizes of 1,000 mm.

    The high-performance E 35 Omegalap combing preparation unit is adapted to the output of the new generation of E 66 / E 76 combers. Yarns, fabrics and final products from COM4 compact yarn, ComfoRo rotor yarn and Rotona rotor core yarn are also supplied.

    Suessen highlights compact spinning system

    Suessen unveiled the new-generation EliTwist CompactSet V5, processing 100% cotton into EliTwist Yarn Ne 100/2 (compact two-ply yarn directly from the ring spinning machine).


    Suessen's EliTwist CompactSet V5
    The system is equipped with a new COREflex core yarn system for ring spinning machines in compact spinning and conventional ring spinning; a new 5star plus lattice apron for short staple compact spinning; an HP-GX 3010 Top Weighting Arm; an EliVario frequency-controlled drive of the EliVAC Suction System and more accessories.

    In the field of open-end rotor spinning, the company also provides such premium parts as ProFiL Navels, trash channel modernization for SE 9 Autocoro rotor spinning machines and Solidring with CR-Coating.

    New braiding machine from Talleres Ratera


    Braiding machine of Talleres Ratera
    Talleres Ratera provides a variety of braiding machine with different gauge sizes. The latest model has gauge160.

    In addition, the company offers complementary accessories such as winding machines for the filling up of the bobbins for the braiding machines or take up units to collect the final product.

    Innovative automatic underbobbin winder by Taining

    Taiwan-based Taining Machine Industrial Co Ltd offers an automatic underbobbin and dental floss winder, which is designed to minimize stoppages on industrial sewing and embroidery machinery.

    Quality bobbins from the automatic winder improve sewing machine efficiency considerably. The bobbins also allow the operator to locate the thread end easily, reducing handing time and costs. The maximum possible amount of thread is thus wound into a wide range of different bobbins sizes.

    An automatic high-speed cross cone winder with cone types of A, H and Y is also available with the company.

    This multi-functional system can work as an auto bobbin feeder and doffing system; an individual spindle control, a drum thread-guidance system; a circulating oil system; an electro-magnetic tensioner; and a high-speed operation, five to six times faster than conventional models.

    As an individual spindle control, the accuracy of measuring yarn length by computer is within 0.5%. Yarn speed is adjustable from 300 to 1,600 meters/per minute.

    Twistechnology provides flexible twisting machines

    Twistechnology offers an extensive range of twisters, including those to twist yarns for new markets as artificial grass and fiber glass yarns.

    The twisting machine for synthetic grass (turf) yarns, Twistar, is a flexible twisting machine that allows production of different grass yarns.

    Additionally, the company's Twistglass machine is a twisting machine specially designed for twisting fiber glass and basalt fibers to meet the requirements of yarn producers in terms of yarn quality and minimum maintenance of the machine.

    It also provides custom solutions to clients with the delivery of special machines.

    Uster offers benchmarking tools and testers for spinners

    Uster Tester 5 has six sensors for an accurate specification of yarns. The system can determine the evenness, the number of thin places, thick places and neps, periodic mass variations, the variance-length curve, the hairiness, the remaining dust and trash particles in yarns, the diameter, the diameter variation, the density, the roundness, the number of foreign fibers and the count. Within less than one minute, it is currently possible to get detailed information to identify problems in the spinning process.


    The above graph from Uster Statistics 2007 demonstrates that the amount of neps in a cotton bale varies between 80 and 300 per gram (Neps throughout the spinning process A = bale, B = card mat, C = card sliver, D = drawframe sliver, E = comber sliver, F = Sliver, finisher drawframe, G = Roving)
    In response to requests from mill owners and spinning managers wanting to compare their own mills' quality characteristics with those of the outside world, Uster Technologies started to produce and publish benchmarks for evenness, thin places, thick places and neps since the 1950s.

    Today, the new Uster Statistics 2007 represent benchmarks for seven laboratory systems, and the user can find the following benchmarks:

  • Quality characteristics for cotton fibers;

  • Changes of fibers properties within the entire spinning process;

  • Quality characteristics of slivers, rovings and yarns; and

  • Relationships between fiber and yarn characteristics.
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