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INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE

MANUFACTURERS FEDERATION:

COTTON CONTAMINATION SURVEY

“After some improvements in the recent past, foreign matters, Dit is wanneer die pluksel (Saadkatoen)
stickiness and seed-coat fragments in raw cotton pose serious besoedel word met kontaminante of ander
challenges to the cotton spinning industry worldwide.” onsuiwerhede wat nie eie is aan die
katoenplant nie.

Die mees belangrikste elemente in hierdie
geval wat ook die meeste skade veroorsaak
he above is the general significantly from 20% in 2011 to in die verdere verwerking van die
conclusion to be drawn from 23%. This level is higher than the katoenvesel is o.a. vreemde vesels soos
Tthe "Cotton Contamination long-term average. Therefore, bv. "polypropelene" en ander vorms van
Survey 2013" which has been stickiness remains a major plastiek wat gebruik word as
released by the International challenge to the global cotton verpakkingsmateriaal. "Nylon" tou en vesels
van Jute word ook deur die spinbedryf as
Textile Manufacturers Federation spinning industry. Descriptions
totaal ongewens beskou!
(ITMF). In the 2013 report, 119 that were affected most by
spinning mills located in 24 stickiness were those from
Klein deeltjies rubber afkomstig van "doffer
countries evaluated 73 different Uzbekistan (Medium Staples),
plate", ghries, olie is ook somtyds deel van
cotton growths. Tables 1 and 2 Turkmenistan (Medium Staples), kontaminante wat tydens die plukproses die
show the % degree of Togo, Mozambique, Chad, Burkina katoen besoedel.
contamination for the various Faso, Tajikistan (Medium Staples),
contaminants for the world Mali, Ivory Coast and China Katoen wat met die hand ingesamel word,
compared to South Africa. Table 3 (Xinjiang). On the other end of the word die meeste blootgestel aan
ranks the countries with the most range, cottons from USA (Texas besoedeling veral wanneer daar van
contaminated descriptions. High Plains, California, South ongewenste plukhouers gebruik gemaak
Eastern), India (J-34, MCU, India- word tydens die oesproses. Tydens die
Contamination - slight increase Others), Zambia, Pakistan meganiese oes van die katoen kan veral
(Others) and Egypt (Giza) were not plastiese houers ook bydra tot die probleem!
The level of cottons moderately or or hardly affected by stickiness.
seriously contaminated as
perceived by the spinning mills
from around the world rose from
23% to 26% compared to the last
survey in 2011. A closer look at the
extent of the contamination shows
that 8% of all cotton evaluated
were seriously contaminated by
some sort of foreign matter
whereas 18% were only
moderately contaminated. The
most contaminated cotton
descriptions considered for the
survey originated in India (DCH,
Shankar-4/6, MCU-5, J-34, India-
Others), Zambia, Pakistan
(Pakistan Others), Tajikistan
(Medium Staples), Uzbekistan
(Medium Staples) and China
(Xinjiang). In contrast, very clean
raw cottons were produced in
USA, (California, USA-Others,
Memphis Territory, South Eastern
and Pima), Spain, Australia, Brazil,
Togo and Benin.

Stickiness - significant rise

The presence of sticky cotton as
perceived by the spinning mills
increased again in 2013
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