In the bustling textile sector of Brazil, TBM has set a golden standard for quality and consistency, catering to a challenging market with
unparalleled dedication. With a rich history in various compacting systems, TBM’s strategic decision in favor of Swinsol’s innovative
solutions marked a pivotal moment in its operations.
In October, Ali Aftab, our technical engineer from Pakistan, had the chance to visit several spinning mills in Egypt together with our Egyptian representative Essam Abdeldayem.
Swinsol’s Digital Lauding Gauge precisely measures the toparm pressure load and perfectly adjusts pressure settings – equally balanced between both side rollers.
A controlled pressure load reduces the one- sided friction on the cots, while guaranteeing constant production performance and yarn quality.
The top roller holder in a compact ring spinning machine presses the delivery roller to the bottom cylinder forced by a sheet metal spring. Due to the geometric conditions, the pressing force of the delivery roller impacts the pressing force of the top roller. In order to compensate this impact correctly, the exact amount of the change in force must be determined.
Mechanical compact spinning has revolutionized the textile industry by providing high-quality yarns with reduced hairiness and improved IPI and yarn strength. With its numerous benefits, it is no surprise that more and more textile manufacturers are adopting this technology to stay ahead of conventional compacting systems, such as suction compacting. By optimizing the usage of cots and aprons, we can not only reduce costs, but also contribute to a more sustainable industry by reducing waste. Therefore, it is crucial to explore different strategies and techniques that can help us achieve this goal.
Rieter K-Conversion – Upgrade of the K-Machine to the Swinsol Mechancial Compact Solution
Introduction Rieter K-frame
It is now possible to spin short staple fibers with a mechanical compact system upgraded to the Rieter machine and achieve the same yarn quality with significantly reduced costs (same cost as conventional spinning) on the Rieter K-frame. Compact spinning was introduced as a trial system in 1995. Later in the year 2000, Rieter introduced an innovation in the air guide providing more fibre compactness. It was called K44-Com4, the Rieter K-frame and it uses suction compact technology. If clean long combed fibers are used, the K-system delivers good yarn results for fine yarns. However, on the sourcing market there are by default less long fibers available. Especially cotton has – by nature – shorter fibres. If the high quality material is not availabe, by our experience, the suction compact will lose its fine-yarn advantage. In reality the K-frame is often used to spin coarser counts and short carded fibers. Pneumatic (suction) compact causes higher cost of material and additional energy consumption. Our upgrade can be used to give the Rieter K-frame a second life to save resources, energy and costs for expensive spare parts. Therefore the economical effect and the cost benefits are significant.
Why mechanical compact spinning is going to supersede pneumatic (vacuum / suction) compact spinning.
The adoption of mechanical compact spinning
Introduction
Compact spinning was founded way back in 1999. Soon after in 2003, mechanical compact spinning was invented. But only right now, with new technology and better systems available, we see the mechanical side of compact spinning gain more traction among spinners. Until now, pneumatic compact spinning was widely adopted, only for spinners now to realize, that mechanical compact spinning is going to be the future. Why is that?
Spinning is a vital operation process in the textile sector. The fashion industry is highly dependend on the yarn manufacturers and the yarn export of spinning mills. Recently, intensified by the worldwide crysis and rising energy and oil prices, the perspective of a more environmentally friendly production reaffirms itself. Both, the retailer demand and the demand of the government points towards more sustainablê ways of production. In the upcoming years, it will not only be a choice to make. Companies will also be forced to take necessary steps. The ones who do not comply, will certainly fall behind. The possibility, that this leads to further extrusion of some companies in the market even after the crysis remains very high.
Spinners need to maintain cots and rollers, when they are engaged in the process of ring or compact spinning. Therefore we developed a device with changeable parts for both – delivery rollers and front top rollers. It makes switching from roller size aswell as from pressing on – to pressing off very easy. The Cot Mounting Device is part of the supply of our Recompact package.
Check out our educational series we made for you. In this episode we exaplain what Recompact is and how this mechanical compact spinning system can benefit the spinning mills.
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