ITMA PREVIEW.

A directory of exhibitors at ITMA 1991 is provided. The directory is organized into four sections: manmade fiber production and texturing equipment; spinning and spinning preparation equipment; weaving and weaving preparation equipment; and dyeing, printing, and finishing equipment. Each entry includes the location of the exhibit and a de..

Analysis of Fiber-Particle-Airflow Interaction and Its Application to the Development of a Novel Card-Spinning System.

The current process sequence for short staple yarn manufacture involves approximately ten individual steps. Collaborative research at Clemson University and the Gerogie Institute of Technology to develop more efficient machines and processes that shorten the line is focusing on the analysis of the motion dynamics of fiber clumps and parti..

Issues in the Development of the Voluntary Data Communication Standard for Spinning.

The American Textile Manufacturers Institute will develop the voluntary data communications standard for spinning in accordance with American National Standard Institute guidelines for an American National Standard. The Data Communications Task Force, after identifying the requirements of the spinning process and reviewing existing regula..

Increasing Produection and Quality in Spinning Mills by Information Technology.

Information technology allications in spinning mills include control panels for production machines, control and regulation systems, and data systems. Standardizing machine panels for all machine types reduces training and instruction time, facilitates universal assignment of personnel, increases efficiency through quicker troubleshooting..

Spinning Machinery.

Technological developments in spinning machinery exhibited at the Sixth OTEMAS emphasized improvements to machine parts, increases in efficiency, increased end product uniformity, and high productivity and yarn quality. Nihon Spindle Manufacturing's new inclined automatic bale opening machine produces much smaller tufts for the manufactur..

Diverstiy Serves Melton Well.

Melton, a yarn manufacturing company located in Cranston, Rhode Island, manufactures metallic yarns and Retroglo reflective yarn for apparel applications. The company also provides custom slitting of film, foil, and other materials. Metallic yarn manufacturing involves slitting rolls of film or lamination 30 inches wide into narrow rolls ..

LMW's Latest Mchines.

Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW), a leading manufacturer of spinning machinery in India, accounts for 60 percent of this domestic market. LMW's high performance LC300 carding machine processes a variety of fibers and blends. It has excellent cleaning action and produces uniform sliver at high speeds. Key features of the LC300 include its effec..

TECHNOLOGIES IN SHORT-STAPLE SPINNING

The appropriateness of a spinning system is determined by first examining the factors governing yarn quality and structure: fiber orientation during twisting, the means of inserting the twist, and the twist level. Customers select spinning systems based on the yarn quality desired, the reliability of the machine at high levels of automati..

YARN MANUFACTURING CUTS PROCESS GAP.

Ring spinners at ITMA will exhibit linked spinning, carding, and drawing equipment. Rieter will introduce the SERVOtrail overhead monorail for roving bobbin creeling and the ROBOfil automated piecing robot. Murata will show a linked winder and two-for-one twister, as well as a monorail system to link drawing and air-jet spinning operation..

MODERNIZATION OF SPINNING MILL

German textile equipment that is installed at a Riga spinning mill was demonstrated to representatives of 37 Soviet organizations. German technical specialists answered questions about machinery.