Blog #8 – Research Initiatives Cotton Yarn - Two-ply commercial yarn that is m ade from large bails of raw cotton First Stage Yarn o Fibers are mixed with the stems from the cotton plant, so to remove them a machine goes over the top to remove 5mm of cotton o Sent through a duct system to a blending and cleaning machines that process 500kg of cotton per hour o Cotton comes out evenly blended, but isn’t fully clean so it goes through another cleaning machine o Then it goes through a carding machine that combs out the tangled fibers and lines them up in parallel rows – machines also discards any fibers that are too short to process o The coiler then takes the rows of fiber and loosely thickens them into a first stage yarn Second and Third Stage Yarn o They then go on to the drawing machine where it lines them out at 6 a...
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