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Tailor-made customized solutions
COTTON USA
SOLUTIONS®: Mill
Mastery™ Course
COTTON USA Technical Team with a combined experience of over 200 years,
conducted Mill Mastery™ Course at Ellcot Spinning & Tata Textile Mills
From the king of the cotton world, COTTON USA
SOLUTIONS® consultancy is famous for helping the
textile industry in over 50 countries turn into proper
businesses by lending a helping hand through their
expertise, modern technical solutions and
techniques. Moreover, they are back with a
one-of-a-kind initiative which is, one to several days
training, Mill Mastery™ Course. Two of these
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35 and licensees in the respective markets. We have
developed a new campaign called “COTTON USA
SOLUTIONS®” which comprises of five different “It was very informative, and we have learned a lot o
offerings including the Mill Mastery™ Course. These and the course extends as per our scope. The Mill mus
all are complementary for our customers as long as Mastery course will help us to improve recovery, chal
they meet two criteria: (1) the mill should be a strength and yarn quality. We have learned many new p
COTTON USA licensee, and (2) the mill should be a things with quality information. Micronaire, maturity
member of the new US Cotton Trust Protocol levels, neps and how to manage seed-coat and b
program, the US cotton industry’s new sustainability fragments and were very useful sessions. CCI needs ta
program for US cotton.”
to advertise this more so that everybody could get
their
relevant benefit from it.” and o
am very thankful to Mazhar Mirza and COTTON USA the Mill Program, Joerg said, “We having training out of which 20,000 are allocated purely for US Pakis
Upon asking about what roles the modules play in
China
modules starting with cotton growing, harvesting,
Vietn
cotton buying and fiber quality then we go through
team for a successful Mill Mastery program. It’s a
the entire process starting from the blow room all the
great initiative that CCI has started which will help our way down to winding. We also have included a upland cotton for last three years. With the help of While
team to learn and understand how to improve the
marke
module about industrial engineering, profitability,
CCI Mill Mastery™ Course, we have been able to
processes in the mill with the better usage of USA
proce
economics of spinning that all comes totally free of
optimize our process by proper allocation of cotton
cotton. The Mill Mastery™ Course has helped us to
Pakis
for weaving and knitting yarns.”
charge. Depending on the needs of our customers,
clear out a lot of issues that my team had regarding
expan
we are also going to customize a tailor-made course
US cotton and hopefully they will now be able to for our customers that can be in person or virtual.” He added, “Now, we are running two different types bigge
make a better use of it to get quality yarn. The mill
the b
of blends. For knitting end use, we have narrowed
audits again are good initiative by CCI which helped
cotto
the range of color parameters like Rd and +B, also
us to improve our own benchmark. After having
alrea
primarily discussion with our team, we have taken out
and for maintaining fabric consistency. For knitting
few points and hopefully we will improve our process.” micronaire value to avoid shade variability problem If we
quali
yarns, we started to compromise on staple and GPT. movin
CCI’s global technical team is the foundation of this While, for weaving end use we started using longer Muhammad Sehban, Vice President of Island Textile exp
staple lengths with better GPT wile opening the range
new program which is designed to help customers of of color and micronaire, as the requirement here is Mills discussed how this program can strengthen our t
US cotton get the maximum performance from US
cotton fibre. The Mill Mastery™ Course presently the good running performance. By this we can cotton practices. “This is a very good initiative by th
CCI of having a mill mastery course. We will give
includes three modules designed to offer tailor-made reduce one step our twist multiplier by maintaining some suggestions to them as well, if they add some sp
customized solutions for US cotton customers. In the the same parameters of yarn strength. This has been practical examples of this course that they have given
future, CCI will offer 15 modules of the Mill Mastery™ giving us very good results in increasing our us of advantages of using the USA Cotton. This will a
Course. COTTON USA SOLUTIONS® also feature productivity.” the i
Adeel Shahid Tata, Director of Tata Textile Mills mill studies, technical seminars, 1:1 mill consults, further add very organized course. The most techn
interesting chapter of this mill mastery course for me
expressed his gratitude by addressing “First of all, I and CCI’s Mill Exchange Program. highe
was about “short fiber” and how to use short fiber to
Joerg Bauersachs, Head of CCI’s Technical Services Coming to the technical management side of the our advantage. The second subject that I loved was tr
explained “we from CCI, are always there for our Tata Textile Mills, Hafiz Imran Aslam, the Vice about “stickiness” in the cotton and how to check for
customers. We are supporting our representatives president also had a few words to say about this it and manage it in our processing”. quali
training program, “It was very good experience and impre
most importantly, for the Mill Mastery™ Course, all Adeel Tata thinks that USCTP is a good initiative but
the team members of Tata Pakistan belonging to it’s becoming a little confusing, as the brands are A
cotton buying, mills management and the technical also taking their own initiatives. He said that right
team sit together and having a common now, we have BCI, Inditex, GOTS, OEKO-TEX, CCI o
understanding on all the parameters to produce Primark, CMI etc. He thinks its overall the same thing
different quality yarns like knitting, weaving and and if everybody gets together and comes under one af
workshops were held at Tata Textile Mills Ltd denim. This is important specially in the days, where umbrella it will be easier for entire chain to be able
(Muzaffargarh) and Ellcot Spinning Mills (Raiwand). the profitability of a mill is very crucial for everyone.” practices. manag
The Mill Mastery courses, by CCI, were a wonderful regar
experience which has given an opportunity to mills’ Ihsan-ur-Rehman, Technical Director of Ellcot A few members from the technical management The future of Pakistan’s textile industry seems very
management teams to learn about the advantages of Spinning Mills had a very positive feedback after a department of Tata Mills also gave their insights and bright, especially with the government policies being
using the top quality sustainable USA cotton and how couple of weeks after course with implementing the reviews about the training program. Adnan Alam,
to utilize it in the best way, in Pakistan’s environment changes, “We have about 62,000 spindles capacity Senior Vice President of Salfi Textile Mills explained,
to get the quality yarn and fabric products.
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