ITMF says stickiness in cotton remains serious problem for Spinners
25 Aug '05
4 min read
Zürich based The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) said contamination of cotton remaining a serious problem for spinner's stickiness on a record low.
Foreign matter, stickiness and seed-coat fragments in raw cotton continue to be among the most serious problems affecting the cotton spinning industry worldwide. This is the conclusion to be drawn from the “Cotton Contamination Survey 2005” which has just been released by the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF).
The survey is carried out every other year, the 2005 edition being the ninth in the series since the changeover to a new methodology in 1989. In the 2005 report, 152 spinning mills located in 18 countries evaluated 68 cotton growths.
Contamination – falling for the first time since 1997 With 22% of all cottons evaluated in 2005 found to be seriously or moderately contaminated, the overall level of contamination fell from 26% in 2003.
The cottons evaluated in 2005 were in 7% (2003: 8%) of all cases found to be seriously contaminated by 16 different sources of foreign matter, a further 15% (2003: 18%) were moderately contaminated, leaving 78% (2003: 74%) insignificantly or not at all contaminated. As these summary data are arithmetic averages, the extent of contamination is fully illustrated only by the results for the individual contaminants, which range from 5% for “tar” (2003: 6%) to 40% of all cottons processed being either moderately or seriously contaminated by “organic matter”, i.e. leaves, feathers, paper, leather, etc. (down from 50% in 2003).
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