Fully Drawn Yarn
Fully Drawn Yarn (FDY) is produced by spinning the yarn at
higher speeds coupled with intermediate drawing integrated in the process
itself. This allows stabilization through orientation and
crystallization.
Fully Dawn Yarn is used as weft or weaves. It can also be
knitted or woven with any other filament yarn in order to produce different
varieties of fabrics such as home furnishing fabrics, fashion fabrics, terry
towels etc.
FDY is available in 3 lustres, Semi-dull, Bright having circular
section & Triloble Bright having triangular cross-sections. Instead of
making the fabric with FDY Raw-white first & then dyeing it, Dope Dyed
Fully Drawn Yarn can be used to make the colored fabric directly.
Benlon India Limited is producing fully drawn yarn in more
than 400 colors. It is being used in sarees fabric in south of India, Varanasi
& Mau and furnishing in Panipat.
Benlon India is also manufacturing double colored FDY in 400
and 800 Dn. We take two different color POY components and draw texturize the
same together, which gives a fancy effect in furnishing and bed covers.
Fully Drawn Yarns are produced by a continuous
polymerisation process. All critical yarn properties such as tenacity,
elongation, Uster variation and boiling water shrinkage are closely monitored
and controlled. Controlled interlace enables the yarns to be twisted or sized
in subsequent operations.
FDY has the following properties -
1.
Intermingled FDY yarns are suitable for direct
twisting, warping and weaving.
2.
The fabric made from these yarns have a feel and
drape similar to fabrics. Produced from pure silk resulting in high realization
of product quality.
3.
These yarns eliminate draw-twisting and sizing
process reducing the cost of products for light and medium range of fabrics.
4.
There is high efficiency and low breakages in
5.
Excellent dyeing consistency.
Normal Partially Oriented Yarn (POY) needs to be necessarily
texturised before being used for making fabric whereas FDY is drawn fully
during the process of spinning itself and therefore does away with the
requirement of texturising and can use directly for making fabric.
FDY is generally used for better quality fabric. As the process of texturising is avoided, FDY yields higher contribution as compared to the normal POY. Fully-drawn yarns are used to manufacture textile fabrics without the need for further finishing. Wherever textiles are to hang smoothly or glide fully-drawn yarns are used.
FDY is generally used for better quality fabric. As the process of texturising is avoided, FDY yields higher contribution as compared to the normal POY. Fully-drawn yarns are used to manufacture textile fabrics without the need for further finishing. Wherever textiles are to hang smoothly or glide fully-drawn yarns are used.
FDY is used in the following products –
1.
Flags and banners
2.
Floatation Devices
3.
Parachutes
4.
Team Apparel
5.
Swimwear
6.
Intimate Apparel
7.
Compression Fabrics
8.
Tents
9.
Cargo Bags
10.
Upholstery
11.
Elastic Bands
Manufacturing
Process
The Raw material i.e. PET Chips are dried, melted, filtered
and then distributed to spinning manifolds followed by spinning position to get
fully drawn yarn. To manufacture FDY, PET chips are fed into dryer where the
moisture is reduced from 0.30% to 0.0020%. After this, chips are melted,
filtered through polymer filter and extruded through the spinnerets. Extruder
is electrically heated microprocessor temperature controlled and screw speed is
controlled and monitored very precisely to ensure uniform quality. The extruded
filaments are cooled by filtered air in the quench chamber with precise
temperature control. Air having no turbulence is used to ensure perfect
evenness. High quality antistatic lubricating oil is applied to avoid static
charges in the yarn. The yarn is taken through heated godets to maintain
residual elongation. Air punching is done at regular intervals by intermingling
nozzles and finally wound on automatic winder in the take up. The FDY so made
is capable of running in high speed warping, sizing, knitting, circular
knitting and looms.
Nylon Fully Drawn
Yarn
Nylon POY is used as raw material for manufacturing Nylon
FDY. For manufacturing FDY one stage high speed process is used.
The main use of nylon FDY is for stocking, knitting, weaving
fabrics, weaving looms and hoovering machines. Also it can be knitted or woven
with any other filament yarn to get fabric of various different varieties. It
is mainly used in Home Furnishing Fabrics, Fashion Fabrics, Denim, Terry Towel
and fishing nets. Nylon FDY is available in bright, semi dull and full dull FDY.
Spinning Speeds
The type of yarn produced during melt spinning is decided by
the spinning speed. Low oriented yarn (LOY) is produced at speeds below 1800
m/min. Medium oriented yarns (MOY) are spun between 1800-2800 m/min. Partially
oriented yarn (POY) is spun at speeds between 2800 to 4000 m/min., where the
yarn is more oriented with a little crystallinity. This gives POY better
stability, and therefore, POY is preferred as commercial intermediate for drawn
or textured yarns. High oriented yarn (HOY) is spun at 4000-6000 m/min and fully
oriented yarn (FOY) is spun at speeds in excess of 6000 m/min.
For nylon-6, the POY speeds are nearly 4000 – 4200 m/min.
Nylon-6 spun at lower speeds undergo post spinning crystallization on
conditioning. At speeds near to 4000 m/min, nylon-6 POY is stable and
essentially consists of crystals, which are deformable during drawing and
texturing. Polypropylene has very high rate of crystallization and the material
crystallizes in the spinning line at any speed, unless, it is quenched at a
fast rate in cold water.
Spinning of fully drawn yarns (FDY) or high performance
fibres
High speed spinning of POY at speeds greater than 6000 m/min
produces highly oriented and crystalline yarn which may be categorized as fully
drawn yarn (FDY). These may be used directly without further drawing, though
their properties are inferior to fully drawn yarn obtained by two step process
of spinning and drawing. Very high spinning speeds are required to increase the
drag force on the spinning filament which in turn increases the stress level in
the filament so that polymer chains get oriented and stabilized by stress induced
crystallization.
FDY Spinning & Drawing Machine at Benlon India
Benlon India is a quality producer of Fully Drawn Yarn and has latest spinning and drawing machines at its plants. The machines have the following features –
- Our machines have new type of energy conserving spin beams with 25% less energy consumption compared with conventional ones.
- The machines have bottom mounted spin packs bettering evenness of melt flow and the uniformity of spinneret surface temperature and reducing labour as well.
- New type of quenching system provides smoother air blowing for the better yarn evenness.
- The heated godet with thermal tube technology results in more even surface temperature and less energy consumption.
- Lastly, fully automatic winders with precision winding, maximum 24 packages, leads to higher successful changer-over rate and good package formation.
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