FIL Control tech to detect thinness of yarns

The sensor expert, FIL Control develops and produces yarn sensors and yarn cutters for the textile machinery industry. With FIL Control headquarters in France and Fil Control subsidiary in China for the Asian market, the company is staffed with the most competent team members in order to provide all customers with the highest quality products at the best price. The company puts all its effort and energy to understand and design technological and commercial answers to the textile industry’s constant evolution. All around the world, major textile manufacturers are trusting Fil Control’s solutions in its three major fields:

• yarn cutters, which can satisfy all kinds of personalised and bespoke demands,
• yarn sensors, utilising capacitive, optical, reflective, piezoelectric and strength gauge technology,
• hall effect sensors, installed on numerous different kinds of application, such as motor rpm counting.

At ITMA, a new step forward in the optical detection R&D will be unveiled. Indeed, it enables to detect yarn thinner than ever before, with to-and-fro motion but also with linear motion. On top of all, the visitors will discover how the sensors and communication programming ability will follow the textile machinery manufacturer development into industry 4.0.