Textechno Herbert Stein GmbH

TEXTECHNO Herbert Stein GmbH & Co. KG, the experts for quality control systems for fibres and yarns, will present the following instruments of their scope of supply at Hall W4, Booth D 09:

STATIMAT MEL

STATIMAT MEL is an established model of TEXTECHNO’s scope of automatic tensile and linear density testers. Offering a high resolution load cell this instrument is TEXTECHNO’s response to the increasing importance of elastomeric yarns, which – according to international standards – are to be tested with a pretension of 0.01 cN/tex. Due to its unique resolution, the STATIMAT MEL is capable of testing both bare Elastan (Spandex) as well as elastic combination yarns with this extremely low pretension leading to correct elongation values.

DYNAFIL ME

A complete set-up for automatic filament testing is based on the universal filament tester DYNAFIL ME. This instrument has proved its excellent suitability for numerous applications like draw force testing of POY, crimp testing of DTY and BCF, shrinkage testing of all kinds of yarns including monofilaments and ATY. The capabilities of this exciting instrument in testing BCF and DTY have been reported in recent publications.

For an even more comprehensive application DYNAFIL ME is completed by the automatic linear density tester COMCOUNT with sample preparation for spin finish analysis, a capacitive evenness tester COVAFIL, an optical entanglement test system including the display of yarn profiles as well as devices for the measurement of friction and broken filaments.

FAVIMAT-AIROBOT2

The FAVIMAT-AIROBOT2 tensile, linear density and crimp tester for single fibre presents a new and even higher degree of automation than the well-established model FAVIMAT-ROBOT. The AIROBOT2 system consists of a tensionless storage for up to 500 fibres together with a fully automatic transfer clamp, which feeds the fibres to the FAVIMAT testing instrument. A new automated sample preparation unit can further reduce the loading time to values as low as 4 sec. per fibre leading to a reduction of labour costs and an outstanding return on investment.