May 22nd, 2007 | In sales and distribution | No comments
Author: Lisa Thaha
Last week Mr. Peter Resch was on a business trip to the States to visit some companies. Most of these companies are located in and around Dalton, Georgia. Dalton is a well known name in the field of tufted carpets, as more than 70 % of the world’s production of carpets is manufactured there.
Carpets manufactured in Dalton wind up in homes, office buildings and even ball fields all around the world. The variety of carpets manufactured in Dalton is endless - tufted, commercial, patterned, oriental rugs, bath mats, etc. With more than 150 plants and approx. 100 outlet stores, Dalton has any floor covering your heart desires. Not for nothing Dalton is referred to as the “Carpet Capital of the World”.
Many of these companies use heat setting for their carpet yarn and we hope to be able to welcome their representatives in Munich or even in our company in Toeging, when they will come to Germany in September to visit the ITMA 2007.
May 15th, 2007 | In sales and distribution | No comments
Author: Lisa Thaha
We have a complete testline in Toeging and our customers are welcome to send their yarn for trial runs to determine the best settings for their yarn. Our customers are also cordially invited to attend the trial runs themselves.
The quantity of yarn to be sent for trial runs depends on the requirements of the customer. For a trial run a minimum of 8 bobbins (4 - 5 kg) of each yarn quality will be required, but the maximum quantity is up to the customer.
Does our customer want to have only an idea, how the yarn will look after the heatsetting with our machine? Then the minimum quantity will be enough to make a so called yarn brush (see picture).
If our customer wants to heatset yarn for a carpet sample, then the quantity for the trial runs depends on the size of the required carpet.
May 8th, 2007 | In Uncategorized, sales and distribution | 1 comment
Author: Lisa Thaha
For the heatsetting process there are three significant factors, which influence the quality of the heatset yarn.
The first factor is the chamber dwell time, that is the time, the yarn remains in the heatsetting chamber.
The second factor is the chamber temperature. This is the temperature with which the yarn is processed and depends on the yarn type to be heatset.
Each yarn has requires different temperatures, e.g.
Nylon 6 can be heatset at a temperature between 184 - 202 degrees Celsius, whereas
Nylon 6.6 requires a heatsetting temperature between 200 - 212 degrees Celsius.
The third factor is the dewpoint temperature, which is the relation of the atmospheric pressure to the specific humidity in the chamber during the heatsetting process.
Here also, the temperature to be set depends on the specific yarn.
For example, for Nylon you will need a dewpoint temperature between 88 - 96 degrees Celsius, but Polyester requires a dewpoint temperature of 90 degrees Celsius.
Any wrong setting will influence the quality of the heatset yarn. For example, the heatsetting temperature was too low - the yarn will not be heatset permanently and will lose the twist in the finshed carpet. If the heatsetting temperature is set too high, the yarn will turn yellow, or even worse - burn or melt.
In order to determine the best settings for the yarn to be heatset, trial runs are necessary.
We have in Toeging a testline and our customers are welcome to send their yarn for trials to profit from our experience and to find the best setting for their yarn to achieve the well-known high quality of PHS heatset yarn.