Mesdan can offer complete testing solutions for the textile industry; spinners, weavers and knitters, garments manufacturers, as well as R&D and educational institutions, and classing institutes can source lab equipment, consumable products and calibration services from a unique supplier.
Specifically for the cotton fibre, the Mesdan-Lab range includes:
CONTEST-F2 – the high-volume equipment for the analysis of the cotton fibre properties, such as micronaire, maturity and fineness, length, short fibres, strength & elongation, moisture, colour & leaf grade, SCI.
NATI AVANCED – the latest version of the well known Neps and Trash Indicator, designed for the use in combination with Contest-F2, to obtain a unique report of the cotton fibre properties, including neps, seed coat neps and trash; Nati Advanced is suitable for raw fibres, slivers and roving, of man-made fibres as well.
CONTEST-S – the unique and fully automatic stickiness detector, working with a thermo-mechanical system, approved by ICCTM-ITMF that helps all the cotton supply chain to assess the content of sugar (honey dew) in the fibres, for a proper, reliable and repeatable evaluation of the cotton quality and its spinnability.
TRASH ANALYSER – an important tool for separating the lint from the trash and dust, for the calculation of the contamination % content in large cotton fiber samples.
TENSOLAB 4 – the 4th generation of the famous tensile strength tester, that thanks to its extreme accuracy and versatility, is today able to test also fibers, either in their single (particularly for the man-made) and in the bundle form (for the natural fibres, like cotton and wool). Specific testing routines and accessories were developed for this particular application.
To complement the offer of equipment for cotton spinning, Mesdan-Lab can include Autofil (automatic yarn strength tester), Twistmatic (automatic yarn twist tester), MT Evenness Tester (for yarns, slivers and rovings of spun fibres), Attrifil (to measure the coefficient of friction of yarns), and others.
Mesdan is also the world specialist in the yarn joining systems; their pneumatic splicers were chosen by the most renown manufacturers of automatic winders and are suitable also for the hand-operated applications, like the assembling & twisting, the soft & hard rewinding in yarn dyeing, the technical yarn applications, the sewing threads processing, etc.
Source: Mesdan