We at SITRA with knowledge base acquired through our prolonged research and interaction with the industry over 60 years along with our enhanced multi-varied experience with spinning industry as well as with machinery/fibre manufacturing industry assure to offer the following services with global excellence:
- Quality control schedules
- Process parameter optimisation from blow room to winding
- Manpower for Quality Assurance departments
- Achievable yarn quality for the type of machinery available in
the mills and process control measures to attain targets - Quality of outgoing yarn.
- Technical performance of various departments with regard to speeds, settings, in process material quality, end breaks
- Machinery maintenance and quality control practices.
- Analysis of machinery condition
- Maintenance schedules and its adequacy
- Maintenance records
- Use of proper lubricants and proper maintenance tools
- Maintenance work methods and house keeping
- SITRA functions with a pilot mill having latest technology machines towards satisfying the needs of the customer in processing special type of fibres/yarns.
- Some of the product development, spinning trials and process control testing are given below:
Product development
- Technical textiles from conventional fibres like cotton, polyester, nylon, etc using short staple spinning machines.
- Technical textiles from high performance fibres like aramid, flame retardant viscose, flame retardant polyester, etc.
- Core yarn spinning in ring & friction spinning systems
- Compact/Elitwist yarn spinning
- Unconventional fibre belended yarn spinning like banana, milk weed, hemp fibres as well as kneaf fibre blends with cotton/polyester trials in ring and compact as well as rotoa spinning systems
Spinning trials
- Processing of cotton, man-made fibres and their blends as per
member mills’ request - Arriving at the optimum process parameters and achievable yarn quality for different raw materials
- Rewinding study
Process control testing
- SITRA had fabricated a simple portable instrument for measuring the degree of opening imparted to cotton in blow room line.
- SITRA also offers in testing the sliver quality in Length Control Tester (LCT) towards optimizing the carding/drawing performance.
Trails and Testing
- Rewinding study for defect analysis
- TFO trials
- Package hardness (Cone/cheese) testing
- Sliver propensity testing
- Snarl index testing
- Roving strength testing
The other consultancy services offered by this Division are:
- Problem solving related to customer complaints
- Process parameter optimisation from blow room to winding
- Quality related problem solving related due to raw material, machinery, process and work practices.
- Analysis of technical problems towards locating defects in yarns and fabrics and offer appropriate suggestions.
- Guidance for the implementation of ISO quality systems.
- Openness study in blow room
- Quality circle implementation
- Friction: Concepts and applications.