The Hindu Business Line : Clean cotton club for quality improvement

PROSPECTS of a perceptible improvement in the quality of cotton supplied by ginning factories to spinning mills have brightened following the creation of a common platform for processors and users of the fibre.

A meeting of ginners and spinners of cotton held here on Friday under the auspices of Technology Mission on Cotton (TMC— Mini Missions III & IV) with participants from western and southern regions discussed formation of a Clean Cotton Club— the brainchild of Mr Vishwa Nath, Chairman and Managing Director of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI).

The Clean Cotton Club is intended to bring good ginners and spinners together on a common platform with a view to spreading the message of quality, so important in view of the quota phase out from January 1, 2005.

Representatives of spinners spoke about quality parameters including cleanliness and emphasised that their customers were upset when trash was found, a view echoed by exporters too.

On their part ginners highlighted the control and monitoring system they adopt for supply of quality cotton.

In his introductory remarks, Mr Vishwa Nath pointed out the good response to TMC's efforts at modernising ginneries. More than 400 units across the country including a large number from Gujarat and Maharashtra have benefited from the technology mission's modernsation schemes, he said.

While reduction in trash content reduces cost of processing, many mills were still unwilling to pay a premium for high quality, said the seminar Chairman, Mr M. B. Lal, former CMD of CCI and advisor TMC.

"There has been a definite decline in level of contamination over the last one year," he added.

Quantifying the level of contamination in baled cotton has always been a challenging task because of a large number of contaminants (20-30 different types) which vary widely in density and clinging power. The capacity of foreign matter to tarnish yarn quality and damage carding machine varies widely, while the ease with which they are removed is also variable.

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