Mesdan Supports Recycling with its Mini Yarn Line

Circular economy and recycling, as well as sustainability, are very popular topics nowadays in all the industrial sectors but particularly in the textile. With the purpose of reducing textile wastes, international directives demand textile mills to use a certain minimum percentage of recycled fibres in their spinning process. At the same time, there is a huge research for the spinning of new natural fibres, so far not used that much, naturally available, and less polluting than manmade fibres.

Besides cotton, linen or hemp, natural fibres of vegetable origin like, bamboo, ramie, abaca, kenaf, pineapple, milkweed, fibres derived from birch bark or coconut palm leaves and others have been tested.

So, besides its main application (didactic, sampling, or small productions) Mesdan “Mini Spinning Line” has found new potential applications.

It is often contemplated as part of the R&D recycling projects: weaving mills and garment brands need to recover old fabrics, second hand clothes, or production wastes and reconvert them into new fibres.

R&D labs (institutes & universities) and new start-ups need to test the spinnability of those new fibres, first in small lots to be then reproduced in large scale or need to recover wastes of expensive materials like aramid or carbon fibres. As confirmed by all the institutes who are using the same, the line is very versatile, and can process short or long natural fibres, as well as synthetic or manmade fibres.

 

A “standard” recycling process may be described as follows:

– incoming material sanitisation

– shredding

– fibre blending and carding

– drawing + spinning

– final product: blended single or twisted yarns (as per desired blending %, count and tpm)

To complete the “Mini Spinning Line”, Mesdan can also offer a laboratory circular knitting machine and is developing a lab scale shredding machine and can also offer a series of testing equipment specifically dedicated to the recycled fibre analysis.