The UK company Culimeta-Saveguard has ordered the state-of-the-art machinery from Saurer Zinser in Germany to equip its new plant that is to open in the historic buildings of the former Tower Mill in Dukinfield in Tameside, Greater Manchester, this year.

The UK company Culimeta-Saveguard is opening one of the most modern cotton spinning plants for the English Fine Cottons brand. The company is investing almost £ 6 million in the new Tower Mill in order to be able to produce premium yarns for exclusive UK companies. The valuable raw material is being imported from Barbados, India, Egypt and the USA.

"We are proud that ring spinning machines from Zinser are being installed in the first new cotton spinning plant to be erected in England," commented Burcu Sevinis, Product Manager at Saurer Zinser. "The cotton spinning mill is coming home and Zinser will be there."

Compact spinning machines

Culimeta-Saveguard has ordered Zinser 351 2Impact FX compact spinning machines from the traditional German manufacturer. Ultra-fine combed cotton compact yarn in counts from Ne 60 upwards will be spun on the machines. The roving is delivered by the roving frame Zinser 670. The Saurer Schlafhorst Autoconer 6 is being used as the winding machine.

The modern Zinser ring spinning machines were the first choice for the production of ultra-fine, combed and compacted cotton yarn, according to Culimeta-Saveguard.

The Zinser 351 2Impact FX is fitted with an Impact FX self-cleaning compact unit. This compact spinning technology is said to combine ultimate process reliability with superior quality and high cost effectiveness.

Ambitious project

The return of cotton spinning to Britain is part of a wider re-shoring trend in textile manufacturing, driven by a booming UK fashion industry. The facility will be the UK’s only cotton-spinning company – reviving this iconic trade more than 30 years after the last cotton mills closed in the 1980s.

More than 100 new jobs will be created by the ambitious project, which will regenerate a former Victorian cotton mill and use cutting-edge technology to produce luxury yarn for domestic and global markets.

English Fine Cottons is investing £4.8 million of its own money in the project, £2 million of which is a loan from the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) through its investment fund. A further £1 million has been awarded as a grant by the N Brown RGF6 Textile Growth Programme (TGP).

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