At ITMA 1995, Lawson-Hemphill will introduce a significant new development in yarn testing technology. The company's new yarn appearance tester is capable of segregating spun cotton by appearance, simulating a taper board at different sizes, and simulating yarn clearing effect. The company will also show a new generation textured yarn tester that is completely electronic, a new dynamic modulus tester, a new entanglement jet tester, and a new constant tension transport designed to measure dynamic elongation of up to 500 percent. The company has aggressively pursued research and development initiatives and double its offshore sales since it came under new ownership in 1989. The company's FAK laboratory knitting machine has become a standard in the worldwide knitting industry. Its equipment is in use in textile manufacturing plants in over 60 countries. It has been cited for export excellence twice in the last eight years by the United States Department of Commerce.