Najam Yusuf, Technical Director, Nishat Mills
TITAN Forte – Bräcker Spinning Ring for Maximum Coarse Yarn Production After denim’s story of success started in the French city of Nîmes some centuries ago, the manufacturing hub of the world’s favorite twill fabric has now moved to the fast-growing market of Pakistan. To help the local industry cope with surging demand, Bräcker, a leading supplier of rings and travellers for ring spinning machines, developed TITAN Forte to help expand service life. Field tests conducted at one of the country’s largest vertically integrated mills, Nishat Mills Limited, are showing promising results with TITAN Forte even extending service life by up to six times! Denim is probably the most popular fabric today. The name denim stems from “Serge de Nîmes”, with “Serge” referring to a twill fabric which was formerly produced in the southern French city of Nîmes. After going mainstream in the US and around the world in the 20th century,
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Pakistan has now become one of the world’s most important markets for denim. A key reason is that the sturdy fabric benefits from the local cotton which is characterized by coarse and short fibers.
The downside of the country’s success, however, is that the huge demand for denim is pushing Pakistani spinning mills to the limit. The many textile applications on ring spinning machines put the ring/traveller system under intense pressure as it is a key component in ring spin-
