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With cotton prices rising to Rs 50,000 per candy in the end of the 2015-16 cotton season, many spinning mills in Tami Nadu have cut down on yarn production.

The most important factor in the area of blowroom and cards is the raw material. A saving of 1% good fibres shows considerable effects, writes Simon Urrutia. At a customer in southern India, the rare opportunity presented itself to carry out a direct comparison of the blowroom and card waste. Running parallel there are a Rieter blowroom and carding section as well as a preparation line from another manufacturer, each with practically the same year of construction and almost the same production rate.

The top 10 markets in the world for textile and apparel constitute for 48 per cent of India’s total textile and apparel exports. The current global apparel market is worth $1.7 trillion and it constitutes around 2 per cent of the world’s GDP. The European Union, USA and China are the world’s largest apparel markets with a combined share of approximately 54 per cent.

The Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC) is looking at reopening six closed textile mills with Chinese help.

The new combing set achieves the greatest productivity worldwide. The technology advantage of Rieter combing is based on the optimal interaction between machine and technology components, avers Yvan Schwartz. Confirmation of this strength, not only in the laboratory but especially under real production conditions with different cotton types, is Rieter’s guarantee for the customers success. The technological resp. qualitative and economical benefits are illustrated as follows.

Spinners are increasingly seeking to take control of the level of contamination in yarn. They need to meet customers’ quality demands exactly, using foolproof but flexible methods which also take account of mill efficiency, minimising waste and optimising productivity. This case study focuses on an Indian yarn manufacturer which originally invested in early-stage fibre cleaning in 2009, and has since upgraded to Total Contamination Control, combining the USTER® JOSSI VISION SHIELD and USTER® QUANTUM 3.