Investment from Uğurlular Tekstil in Rieter Fully Automated Piecing Robot ROBOSpin
News: Dilek Hayırlı
Denizli-based Uğurlular Tekstil, one of Turkey’s most established companies in the textile sector, has invested in ROBOspin, the industry’s first fully automated piecing robot manufactured by Rieter, for more than its 30 compact and ring spinning machines.
ROBOspin piecing robots repair ends down that occur while a spinning machine is running, or during doffing. The robot receives information about the position of the ends down from the integrated individual spindle monitoring (ISM). The robot operates 24 hours a day, maintains a consistently high level of productivity and makes the spinning process easier for a spinning mill organisation as a whole.
With minimal contact between the robot and the cop throughout the entire piecing process, yarn quality remains high. It can be installed on different types of Rieter ring and compact-spinning machines, and on both new and older models, and rapidly adjusted to common raw materials and yarn counts.
Uğurlular Tekstil Member of Board Osman Uğurlu said the following about their new investment: “We follow the developing technologies in our sector in the best way and integrate them into our company and we believe in investing in technology for a successful future. In this context, we have purchased ROBOspin, the first fully automated piecing robot of our industry produced by Rieter for more than 30 compact and ring spinning machines. We will continue to add strength to our country and industry with our investments.”
Uğurlular Tekstil Member of Board Osman Uğurlu
Uğurlular Tekstil Exports to More Than 30 Countries
Founded in 1965 by Osman Nuri Uğurlu, Uğurlular Tekstil provides raw materials for the production of home textiles, towels, denim, outerwear fabrics as well as technical textile fabrics within the scope of R&D and P&D. In 2007, Uğurlular Tekstil started to work export-oriented and became a rapidly growing brand abroad, exporting to more than 30 countries, especially Greece, France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Spain, South Korea, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam and Pakistan.
Established R&D Centre in 2019
With an approach based on innovative thinking and creativity, Uğurlular Tekstil supports the creation of free environments that will expand the boundaries of knowledge and the spirit of entrepreneurship. In this context, the company strengthened its innovative structure in production by becoming an R&D centre approved by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in 2019.
In 2014, it increased its daily production volume to 60 tonnes with its open-end investment with 8,100 rotor capacity. Uğurlular Tekstil, which has left behind nearly 60 years in the sector, managed to increase its daily production volume to 100 tonnes with its 57,000 spindle capacity and Industry 4.0 indexed compact facility investment in 2022. Today, the company is one of the most important players in the textile industry with more than 750 personnel in a closed area of 82,000 m2.
“We Invested 55 Million Euros Worth Compact Facility”
Osman Uğurlu said that the investment cost of the Compact facility they built in 2022 was 55 million euros and they employed 350 new employees. Uğurlu said, “We produce 40 tonnes of compact yarn in the range of 8/1-120/1 Ne per day in this facility with a capacity of 57,000 spindles, built on a closed area of 42,000 m2.” Uğurlu continued as follows: “We are one of the strongest and highest tonnage producers in our region with our 3 facilities, Ring, Open – End and Compact, and our daily production capacity of 100 tonnes. Currently, in our Open-End facility, we are able to produce 40 tonnes of woven and knitted yarns with 100% cotton, organic cotton, BCI cotton in the range of 6/1-40/1 Ne per day and apply flam effect. In our ring mill, we produce weaving and knitwear yarns from blended fibres such as 100% cotton, organic cotton, BCI cotton, carded, combed cotton, bamboo, modal, viscose, lyocell, linen, hemp in the range of 6/1-24/1 Ne, 20 tonnes per day. In addition, we can use sirospun, corespun, hardcore and dualcore methods and apply flam effect to all yarns. We also ranked 192nd in the ‘ISO Second 500 Turkey 2022’ list.”
Aims to Meet All of Its Electricity Needs with Green Energy
Uğurlular Tekstil continues its journey within the scope of sustainable growth and always with the goal of environmentally friendly production. In this context, the company reduces its carbon footprint by using recyclable materials in production and aims to meet all of its electricity needs with green energy through solar energy panels placed on factory roofs and in the field. Uğurlular Tekstil’s new compact factory also features a rainwater harvesting system.
