Focus on Indian Spinning Industry – Loyal Textiles

Loyal Textile Mills Ltd. is one of the oldest, largest and most respected textile companies in India. The company has four spinning mills located at Kovilpatti, Sattur, Arasanur and Naidupet (Andhra Pradesh) having around 1,50,000 ring spindles, 4,800 rotors and vortex spinning. The entire ring spinning capacity is compact. Loyal has state-of-the-art machineries, including auto doffers and link coners.

For spinning Loyal has invested in Rieter, Trutzschler, Marzoli, Electrojet, Suessen, LMW (Model LR9/AXL), KTTM (Auto Doff Ring frames) and Toyota. In Vortex spinning, it has the latest generation Murata vortex machines which can process 100% polyester and coloured fibres. In open-end spinning the company has invested in Rieter and Saurer Schlafhorst. Yarn conditioners are from Xorella steam setting machines, Twisting from Murata and Peas Metler parallel winding machine and Veejay Lakshmi TFOS.

Autoconers are from Schlafhorst -PreciFx, AC 6 autoconers, Murata –Q pro and F Pro autoconers, vortex spinning and Savio –Polar Autoconers.

Testing equipments are from USTER and PREMIER for testing raw materials, sliver, roving and yarn for all critical parameters, including hairiness index

From cotton to yarn: Loyal extensively uses imported cotton from Egypt, Supima from the US, Pima from Israel and also organic cotton. Contamination in cottons is cleaned through a combination of manual cleaning and multi-stage camera-based contamination clearers coupled with polysensors to remove all types of white polypropylene.

Autoconers are also equipped with the latest generation clearers to remove all kinds of contamination, including white polypropylene. The annual production of yarn is more than 34,000 tons, which includes polyester blends, viscose blends, modal blends, linen blends and lycra blends in the count range of Ne 10s to Ne 120s.

Open end: 100% cotton, PC blends in the count range of Ne 6s to Ne 24s. Specialty yarns such as multi fibre blend, multi-count, multi-twist and slub yarn, neppy yarn, siro compact yarn, snow yarn and linen blends

Melange Yarn, E mélange, Recycled Polyester, Organic Cotton Yarn, BCI cotton Yarn, Carbon Yarn and Kermal Blended Yarn are other varieties of yarn produced by Loyal.

Arasanur unit: This division has 13,056 spindles and produces carded counts in the range of 10s to 20s. It can produce fancy yarns like slub, multi-count and multi-twist. Production per day is 7000 kg. The division has 2,688 rotors of open end machines. The open end division is divided into three sections. One section can produce 100% cotton, another section polyester blends and the third section mélange or recycled fibres. The count range is 10s to 24s. It can produce around 10,000 kg per day.

Kovilpatti unit: This division has four separate spinning blocks with over 53,040 spindles and 1,440 open-end rotors, including Autocoro with Corolab. All 4 blocks have a combined capacity of 20,000 kg for ring spun yarn and 10,000 kg of open end yarn. We have the flexibility to run small batches of different yarns like Cotton, PC, Modacrylic, Aramide, etc., in parallel.

Sattur unit: The Sattur unit has five separate spinning blocks with over 61776 spindles and a vortex unit with two vortex machines. All the five blocks have a combined capacity of 35,400 kg for ring spun yarn and 2,000 Kgs of Vortex yarn. We have the flexibility to run small batches of different yarns like Cotton knitted yarn, Modal or tencel blended yarn, PC and viscose vortex yarn, mélange, E mélange, siro compact, recycled polyester etc., in parallel.

Loyal’s twisting unit at Sattur houses Murata and Peas Metler parallel winding machine, 21 TFO machines, 160 drums RITE gassing machines and 400 drums of winding machines. The unit is also equipped with Xorella steam setting machines to condition hosiery yarn and folded yarn from 2/10’s to 2/140’s gassed.

The Naidupet unit, equipped with 22,848 spindles, produces combed compact yarn in counts 40s, 50s and 60s. Production per day is 10,000 kg. It also has two open end machines to produce 16s to 20s OE counts.