- Soft finishing on hemp fibres can enhance their uniformity of length, flexibility, surface friction and moisture absorption, thereby improving the spinnability of the hemp fibres.

- Since the automatic cone winders are high cost machines and consume more power when compared to the conventional cone winders, while deciding the optimum parameters these aspects are also to be considered.

- Under normal trading conditions, a high productivity mill manufacturing 40s yarn can break-even at about 84% spindle utilisation, and the break-even utilisation ranges from 79% in 100s to 85% in 20s counts.

- The abrasion resistance of rotor yarn fabrics is better, and colour fastness is slightly higher for ring spun yarn fabrics whereas shrinkages is the same for the fabrics made from ring & rotor spun yarns.

- It is needless to mention that the import of secondhand (used) machines and the cheap new machines from China is doing incalculable harm to the textile machinery manufacturing industry in India.

- The latest weaving machinery are superior in standards of versatility, operating stability, and they consistently provide maximum performance provided the process management is to the best level. In the mordern weaving sector, Quick Style Change (QSC) is offered by the loom manufacturer in most of the cases. The main objective in this kind of process is that, to prepare a module outside the weave room so that it can be replaced for the module in the loom after it empties in shortest time possible.

- Compared to 100% cotton yarns, the blended yarn of cotton with mesta are characterised by higher strength (about 10% higher) and higher coefficients of variation of linear density and hairiness.

- The advantageous compact yarns can be economically utilised in a variety of ways and all these possibilities are opening a wide field for the creation and development of future products and applications.

- Sewing threads can make or mar a garments, and hence a through understanding of their processing and properties is vital for the industry to choose the right type of the threads.

- Roving with higher twist gives better speed frame efficiency and large bobbin sizes and lower twist roving gives better draft performance due to less fibre-to-fibre friction.

- Combers, speed frames and ring frames have gone through such major changes that today they meet not only the requirements of the manufacturers but also the demands of consumers.

- The trend in Indian spinning mills is now to replace manual bale opener with automatic bale opener, and carding and draw frames have also gone through an evolution in the last one decade. So, what are the changes that have happened in these pre-spinning departments? The authors highlight the developments.

- Wrap spinning system is used to fulfill increasing demands on style changes in knitting and carpet industries, and its strength and elasticity are quite comparable with those of conventional yarns.

- Since the market of terry fabrics have undergone a phenomenal change in recent years, a comprehensive and stringent quality control system is very essential to deliver a product that consistently meets the ever-increasing customer expectations.

- Some of the existing practices in material handling by spinning mills can cause damages to fibres and yarn.

- The structure of the fabric determines the characteristics such as strength, thickness, extensibility, porosity and durability of the protective textiles, says the author, who discusses the structure and performance of various textile fibre assemblies involved in the production of protective textiles.

- Production of compact yarn significantly improves the inner structure of the ring-spun yarns.

- Weaving with synthetic filament yarns has now become possible on all types of shuttleless weaving machines with suitable modifications.

- Air textured yarns are today's trendsetters because of their exceptional textile properties that can be increasingly focused into specialised application fields. Taking these facts into consideration, SSM's TW2-T DIGICONE® preciflex™ allows the build of individual customised texturing processes with adapted heating and drawing treatments for tenacity and uniform dimension stabilities in fabrics.

- SKAAT fancy yarn device from Sakat India Inc is an integrated solution covering a variety of fancy yarn requirements. It works with any drafting systems, which has been optimised for the acceleration and deceleration requirements for spinning fancy yarn. It has an option and can be retrofitted in any make of new or old ring frames.