CONTEST-S | 3304S

Fully automatic high-volume testing equipment designed to detect, measure, classify and grade cotton stickiness (honeydew and sugar content).

This unique equipment provides cotton stickiness risk probability on the basis of its grade, enabling spinners to anticipate proper actions to prevent machine jamming and improve bale management.

CONTEST-S is a precious tool for spinning mills, cotton traders, textile institutes, R&D labs, and other cotton grading, arbitration, and classing institutes.

CONTEST-S 3304S

How it works

Cotton stickiness phenomenon (also called “sugar” - honeydew) is analysed by means of a thermomechanical method - the only one officially recognized - able to detect stickiness deposits of different origins in the fiber web.

Sticky deposits are classified in 5 size classes and 6 grade levels (the grade is the result of the sticky point size and quantity).

CONTEST-S makes a difference in the working principle, since it provides a counting per gram of the sticky points and their sizes by simulating the carding process like in a real spinning process.

The sticky deposits are counted, classified, and graded by the Stickiness Tester Software

Sticky points classes: all deposits are divided into 5 classes by size, from 1 (small) to 5 (large).
Sticky points/g: the total amount of sticky points, in total and per class, is then converted into unit / g.
Sticky grade: stickiness is graded by the software giving more importance to larger than smaller deposits. Sticky grade is an important real value to check cotton stickiness, for easier bales management.
Sticky points average size

Sample weight: 3.5g

Testing speed: about 30 seconds/sample.