STICKINESS TESTER • fully automatic high volume testing equipment designed to detect, measure, classify and grade cotton stickiness (honeydew/sugar content); • unique equipment providing cotton stickiness risk probability on the basis of its grade enabling spinners to anticipate proper actions (how to process & blend different cotton bales); • ensures fast testing and very repeatable and consistent results; • 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. ITMIF - ICCTM

Stickiness tester Introduction to cotton stickiness Cotton stickiness phenomenon (also called “sugar” - honeydew) changes from season to season. It is caused by a large and variable source of contaminations. The most common originates from insect secretion (mainly from white-fly and aphid), or from vegetals (like oils, seed glue, crushed seeds, etc.), or from other foreign matters that stick on mechanical parts. Besides, immature fibres have a higher content of sucrose, which tends to be stickier than other vegetal sugars. Therefore it is possible to find sticky cotton crops even from origins...

A reasonable solution seems to be a threshold classification which should be set by every customer on the basis of his own experience and ability to process fibers of a given stickiness. Therefore, it is important to understand that the scale given here is only meant as an indication and depends on various factors, which are going to be explained here below. The grading of stickiness is based on a linear combination of the sticky counts/gr and their dimension sizes in such a way to provide a dimensionless parameter, namely Stickiness Grade, which is tuned to represent the probability that a decrease...

TECHNICAL FEATURES STANDARD EQUIPMENT Stickiness total count / g Stickiness average size average class size (from 1 to 5) Stickiness classes count / g for 5 classes (from 1 to 5) Stickiness grade based on stickiness counting and classification Software languages: English Screen size: wide touch screen monitor USB: Easy access to 4 USB ports Network capability: Provided via Ethernet port Backup: Storage of test results Testing speed: About 30 seconds / sample Testing time: sample preparation and testing of 6 consecutive samples: 5 minutes AMBIENT CONDITIONS • PC with wide touch screen monitor...