Again in 2025, Mesdan will be exhibiting four of their most important lab equipment: Contest-S, Autofil, NATI Advanced, and Burstmatic 2 at the most important textile machinery exhibition in Asia: ITMA Asia + CITME 2025, which will be held in Singapore, 28 to 31 October 2025. As part of the spinning solutions of Vandewiele, Mesdan will be sharing their space within the 286 m2 booth of the group, located in Hall 4, booth no. A302.
Contest-S – fully automatic high volume testing equipment designed to detect, measure, classify, and grade cotton stickiness (honeydew/sugar content. It is a unique equipment that provides cotton stickiness risk probability (stickiness in practice), on the basis of its grade, enabling spinners to anticipate proper actions (how to process & blend different cotton bales). It ensures fast testing and very repeatable and consistent results, and is a precious tool for ginning, spinning mills, cotton traders, textile institutes, R&D labs, and other cotton grading, arbitration, and classing institutes. Testing method for stickiness grading recognised by ITMF – ICCTM.
Autofil – fully automatic yarn tensile strength tester, with integrated cop changing system with 24 positions, also suitable for hanks/LEA (CLSP) and light fabrics in the semi-automatic mode. Suitable for testing a wide variety of yarns: spun, continuous filaments, POY, spandex, sewing threads, etc., thanks to its vast assortment of various clamps, jaws, and other testing tools. Special automatic clamps are available for high tenacity yarns (like sewing threads, industrial, and carpet yarns). Software with an integrated and interactive pre-loaded database of testing methods, complying with the major testing methods (ISO, ASTM, JIS, BS, IWS, NEXT, M&S, etc.).
Nati Advanced – the latest version of the famous Neps and Trash Indicator, designed for integration with the “Contest-F2” cotton fiber testing equipment, and for obtaining the seed coats Neps and trash indication as well; the stand-alone setting allows the testing of both the cotton and the synthetic fibers. It is an important tool to improve and predict yarn quality, increase the efficiency of carding and combing operations, and reduce maintenance costs and overheads.
Burstmatic 2 – pneumatic bursting strength tester to determine the bursting resistance and the dynamic fatigue of woven and knitted fabrics as well as technical textiles, nonwovens, leather (artificial and natural), and other non-textile applications (like paper, plastic, packagings, medical, etc.). It measures the required pressure necessary to burst or tear a specimen, as well as the specimen distension “height” before bursting. The sample distension “height” is measured by means of laser technology. 2 Then, on the exhibited Savio Proxima winder, the latest splicer versions will be installed, featuring technological upgrades to improve the durability of some mechanical parts subjected to major stress, and to guarantee the utmost consistency in splice quality.
