Objective The annual turnover of the European spinning mills is approx. 7,5 billion ECU. The future of this sector lies in the field of fine and highest quality products. The card is the most important machine of spinning preparation and has the key function to achieve optimum yarn quality. With the exception of regulating sliver uniformity, there exists actually no on-line sensor system for the evaluation of the achieved product quality. The aim of this project is to develop a quality opimisation package for spinning mills. The key of this package is an on-line quality control device, which determines quickly and precisely all important quality parameters directly at the card. Actually there are more than 300 Spinning mills all over Europe. The majority are SME with a total of more than 75,000 employees. A typical spinning mill has over 20 cards with an output of 40 kg/h. Today, a waste content of 6% is taken into consideration. The portion of true trash is 2,5% only. This means that 3,5% of OK fibres are separated. During carding, now 65.000 t of OK fibres are lost annually as waste in Europe. This project will result in a reduction of loss of OK fibres and a clearly improved yarn quality: loss of OK fibres will be reduced by at least 25%, number of neps will be reduced by 10-20% and, fibre damage will be reduced by 10%. With the saving of only 1% by applying the new developed quality assurance concept, 19.200 t of fibre material will be saved annually Europe-wide. Besides the direct ecological benefit, this saving will lead to an overall saving of 36 million ECU annually, based on an average cotton price of 1,89 ECU per kg. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0101 - Incorporation of new technologies into production systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CRS - Cooperative research contracts Coordinator Rositta Holding BV Address 6,dr. philipsstraat 6 6130 AA Sittard Netherlands See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FEG TEXTILTECHNIK FORSCHUNGS- UND ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Juelicher strasse 338 52070 Aachen See on map Filature de Chenimenil SA France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 88460 Chenimenil See on map Hytsa Levante SL Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address 56,avenida de la paz 46690 Alcudia de crespins See on map Kilkenny Textile Mills BV Ireland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Calow road 51 Kilkenny See on map Kortag Textilwerke AG Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 60062 Korinos - katerini See on map M. MAY & CIE GMBH & CO KG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 69,franz-savels-strasse 69 52538 Gangelt See on map Spinnerei Matrei Austria EU contribution € 0,00 Address 6143 Matrei - brenner See on map Trützschler GmbH & Co. KG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 82-92,duvenstraße 41199 Mönchengladbach See on map
