ABSTRACT

Historical test data indicates that certain cotton yarn quality measures that can affect performance and appearance have deteriorated on the average world wide in the past 20 years.

WHAT'S HAPPENING TO COTTON YARN QUALITY? A STUDY OF RING SPUN YARN QUALITY

All you hear these days is catch phrases on world class quality, and the daily mail is full of brochures on seminars on how to keep up with or join the bandwagon being led by "World Class quality leaders. one would think "...boy - I need to get off my duff and refit my mill with all this latest world class equipment or I'm going to be left in the dust making relatively inferior quality.....? Enter reality. The fact is in our end of the industrial base you better proceed with caution and know what is happening. The quality of "World Class" cotton yarn has deteriorated world wide in the last twenty years.

If you are producing the same overall quality today that you were twenty years ago rest easy - you are ahead of the world!

It is true that drafting systems have improved over the last twenty years and consequently the yarn quality measure called Uster CV or short term yarn weight variation has improved.