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Joseph Kempen, Loskop Cotton Gin.

LOSKOP

COTTON GIN

UPGRADE

Cherokee Fabrication Company, Salem, Alabama USA

The Loskop Cotton Gin in Marble Hall was completion of the second stage, Loskop Gin will
extensively upgraded last year by the Cherokee be capable of producing in excess of 60 x 227 kg
Fabrication Company, Inc. of the USA and bales per hour (38,5 tonnes of seed cotton). You
fitted with the Cherokee Magnum 270 ginning could explain it this way: Loskop at capacity will
line, which offers a complete ginning solution package enough natural fibre in one hour to
unique to the industry. make 73 020 men’s t-shirts!
The Loskop Gin has been designed as a It is a totally integrated system design
two-stage upgrade. The first stage has been that is balanced from the incoming stream
completed and it is capable of producing to the finished bale off-take into warehouse
40 x 227 kg bales of cotton per hour (25,6 tonnes placement. It is a fully automated plant that
of seed cotton). Another way to look at it is that uses the latest technologies in its hydraulics,
it will be able to process enough natural fibre to burners and PLCs to provide industry-leading
make 8 600 pairs of blue jeans an hour! Upon efficiencies in the processing of raw cotton.

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