Rieter

Outlook

Index

The short staple spinning processes available today and in the foreseeable future
  • ring spinning
  • compact spinning
  • rotor spinning
  • air-jet spinning

have quite different characteristics as regards yarn structure, yarn count range, degree of automation, cost structure, end product appearance, etc. The strength and weakness profiles also differ accordingly.

This results in specific fields of application for the different processes. On the basis of simplicity, yarn quality and universality, ring spinning, together with the increasingly important compact spinning process, will remain the dominant spinning process in the long term. Rotor spinning will certainly continue to display its strengths in medium to coarse yarn counts, and maintain its market share. Air-jet spinning will win specific application fields in the medium count range at the partial expense of ring spinning and rotor spinning.

In future therefore, the right process will find its use in the specific production location and the foreseen yarn application, making possible the optimum use of the different characteristics of the available processes and thus enabling tailor-made yarns to be produced.

Progress will certainly not come to a standstill. All the industrial processes mentioned will continue to be intensively developed and perfected. In this way, the spinner will be able to put the strengths of these processes to even better use. Spinning technology remains as dynamic as ever.