Double Pick Yarns

In case of making of Twill fabrics, one of the easisest ways of inserting two picks into the fabric would have been Double Pick Yarns, then inserting two picks , one after another.

The Double Pick Yarns can be easily made on a doubling machine , however, will require some special cutting on the drums to ensure that the two yarns are laid side by side on the cone. It should in no way wrap up with one another. In case of precsion winders, it would need two seperate slots on the guide finger , laying two yarns onto the cone at the same time side by side.

The Double Pick Yarns will then Double the Production in weaving and there will be a fully new kind of product which will now be available in the market.

Both the machine makers and the Industry will have to reorient itself, if they want to innovate and see the fruits of lateral thinking.

Anti Fungal Yarns

The new technology of compacting copper or silver into the extruded man man madee fibres has bought about a unique product of Anti Microbial, Anti Fungal and Anti Inflammatory fabrics. Incase of natural yarns, these are blended in a certain proportion or twisted .

Though , the yarns are now available for quite sometime, interestingly the trade has till not exploited these functional values into their product offerings. One still does not see in the markets garments with microbial resistance or under garments with fungal resistance.

The while Children Garment Industry could have actually been steered into this new development. The Under garment business by preference will choose only such yarns and the Hospital wear will be automatically microbial resistance wears. Towels will have no other choices, but to use such yarns. Socks will be anti fungal and handkerchiefs will be antimicrobial.

None of the Brands has traveled into this new space and quickly captured the innovation for their USP.

One still has to also wait and see that how effective these anti fungus, microbial and inflammatory properties are with respect to washing and usage over time.

SSM : Paradise Regained

Last year during this time, I wrote about SSM and its sliding numbers.

But this year, SSM has regained its legendary position in the winding machines segment.

The annual report talks on sales improvements in China, Bangladesh and India. Also on the advantages of cost now flowing in with manufacturing migration to China.

It is not so clear to me, as of now which segment of the market has SSM regained, but it does show that Stahle has proven to be a better investment against my predictions last year. The air covering machines should be the next best contributor to the bottom line.

On the other product range, except for soft package winders, the machines may not really be sustainable at the price levels, it is pitching in the global space. But , if prices do become rational factoring the China cost, perhaps, a much larger volume can be captured.

One product, which SSM is missing is the filament assembly winder. This could be the future for composites and Industrial yarns.

Anycase, well done SSM.