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 Audit
Quality Control Schedules
- Man power requirement for quality control activities
- Control on in-process material quality
- Sampling techniques
- Arriving at the achievable yarn quality
- Process control measures
Machinery Audit
- Analysis of machinery condition
- Maintenance schedules and its frequency
- Man power requirement for maintenance activities
- Maintenance records
- Use of proper tools and lubricants
- Maintenance work methods and house keeping
- Overall rating is arrived
- Components which would require immediate attention could be listed out
- Decision on modernizing the machine and budgeting
- Identification of machines/ components responsible for poor yarn quality
- Re-visit the frequencies of maintenance schedules
- Streamlining the material flow
- Solution for quality related market
Other Consultancy Services
- Problems solving
- Process parameter optimization
- Troubleshooting for adhoc problems
- Yarn defect analysis
- Friction Spinning —Concepts and applications
- Technical support in processing non-conventional fibres and fancy yarn manufacturing
- Periodic Technical Visit (PTV) services for quality, maintenance and production areas
Research and Development
- Studies conducted in the field of effects of modern developments on fibre processing such as
- Change in fibre parameters during processing especially in cards and in drafting
- Effect of spindle speed on twist contraction levels
- Studies on various topics in spinning for better understanding and suitable modifications in the existing system continuously.
- Conducting trials for machinery/mechanisms development in collaboration with machinery manufacturers
- Sponsored projects from MoT, KVIC, NJB, etc.
Pilot Mill
Product Development
- Technical textiles from conventional fibres
- Technical textiles from high performance fibres
- Core yarn manufacturing in ring and friction spinning system
- Compact/Elitwist yarn spinning
- Fibre hooks measurement/ studies
- Processing of unconventional fibres such as pineapple, banana, Jute, coir, Sisal, hemp, Kenaf, etc.
- Processing of cotton, man-made fibres and their blends
- Processing of recycled cotton with organic/ polyester in ringframes as well as open-end spinning
- Arriving at the optimum process parameters
- Achievable yarn quality for different raw materials
- Rewinding study
- Processing of banana, hemp, pineapple and mil weed fibres in blend with cotton as well as with synthetics
- Measuring the degree of opening in blow room line using SITRA Openness tester
- Testing of sliver quality in Length Control Tester (LCT) towards optimizing the carding/drawing performance of synthetic & synthetic blends
- Package hardness testing
- Snarling Index testing
- Roving strength testing
- Compact blow room line for processing cotton and synthetics
- State of art cards with suitable specifications for separate processing of cotton and synthetics
- Latest high production comber
- Autoleveller draw frame
- Servo controlled latest generation speed frame with 16” lift
- Modern ring frame with - Suessen compact CDS system - Core yarn attachment with compacting system - Elitwist system
- Schlafhorst Autocoro 360 - Open end spinning
- Inverter controlled TFO with different pot size for coarse and fine yarn twisting at step less speeds for optimisation
- Precisim assembly winder
