A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR FINEST YARN COUNT FROM EXTRA LONG EXTRA FINE EGYPTIAN COTTON
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A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR FINEST YARN COUNT FROM EXTRA LONG EXTRA FINE EGYPTIAN COTTON
Dr.Mohamed A. M. El-Sayed
Head of Spinning Research Department
9 Gamaa St. Giza-12619-Egypt
negmmohamed@yahoo.com
cottonspinning@gmail.com
Utilization of Egyptian cotton in producing fine yarns with high quality to be exported would provide great economical advantages allowing Egypt to dominate world market since there would be no strong competition in this respect from countries producing yarns. The improvement of cotton relies mainly upon the Cotton Research Institute, who, through a long process of breeding, maintenance, evaluation of fiber and yarn quality and spinning test arrives at new varieties of superior quality to replace the old ageing ones. Consequently, strenuous efforts have been always directed towards improving its quality to maintain the worldwide reputation it has gained.
Table1. HVI and Micromat measurements fiber data (on raw cotton).
The Extra Long Extra Fine Egyptian cotton enjoyed the merits and attributes of high potential spinning performance because of their majesty fiber properties.
On 25 October 2008 finest yarn (350 Ne/ 592 Nm) ever spun 100% cotton has been produced on Pilot Spinning Mill, Spinning Research Department, Cotton Research Institute.
Also, the old one, 334 Ne or 565 Nm was recorded by Messrs, TEXParts in Stuttgart, Germany.
The cotton of this action had been processed On Trützschler and Marzoli machines. The cotton Type is Extra-Long Extra Fine category namely, Giza 45, Giza 87 and new promising cross (Giza 77 X Pima).
Figure 2 : Showing Force/Elongation-diagram
