How are
we trying to keep trash levels / Contamination low in Indian cotton ?
As we all know grade of Indian raw cotton especially Shankar 6 and MCU 5 is one of the best in the world in terms of luster, NEP levels and absorption. Its only basic problem is that of relatively high trash levels. However over years with better technique, hybrid seeds this problem has been controlled to large extent.
The question arises how has T.T. been managing it ?
T.T. is a spinner and understands the problem of trash levels for a spinner - no one can appreciate it better than a user himself.
T.T. has installed
vision shield in one of its Ginning Factory to give
specially Cleaned Cootton.
We have undertaken various steps to reduce trash levels, as enumerated below
Kapas and the final cotton
is all kept on cemented floor and not on mud/dust.
Minimum human handling is done of the
kapas while transfering it to the ginning machine.
Workers have to tie their hair and hang
a bag around their neck to pick any type of trash visible.
All cleaning is done by cotton/cloth brooms
- no jute or synthetic brooms are used for cleaning the
premises.
After ginning, the raw cotton is again
hand picked for visible foreign particles, before sent
for baling.
Finally before baling, cotton is passed
through ultra violet rays to remove left over trash.
The cotton bales are packed in cotton
cloth - NO PLASTIC OR JUTE MATERIAL IS USED FOR THE SAME.
As a result of all this, we
are capable to provide raw cotton with trash levels between
2 to 3% in certain specific varieties like Shankar 6 and
MCU 5. In case any spinner wants even lower levels, we
can do special ginning and provide trash levels as low
as 1.5% - the price would be about USC 2/lbs extra.
We as a spinner have
also used Australian and West African raw cotton - the
overall results of yarn are best with Indian raw cotton
in terms of imperfection levels especially the neps.
If we are careful in buying Indian raw
cotton and do not go for those very alluring few cents
discount, we are confident that the quality of yarn would
be par excellence - there cannot be a substitute especially
for dyed fabric.
