50 million swabs an hour

More than 80 Trützschler and Rosink machine combinations for the production of the card slivers for cotton swabs are now successfully in operation worldwide. 

And the output from each of them is sufficient to produce approximately 50 million cotton swabs per hour. 

The web of a Trützschler cotton card is split into four segments for the production of fine card slivers with a weight of around 1.5 gsm. The four high quality slivers are simultaneously coiled into cans by Rosink’s Quad Coiler. Thanks to the high sliver quality and the high production of the machine, this system is extremely efficient. 

Cotton swab machinery specialist Falu has recently introduced systems with an integrated drafting system and here the feed sliver employed has a higher weight of between 3-4 gsm.

To fully utilise the potential of the Trützschler high production card with these machines, the Rosink sliver splitting system has been adapted to the Trützschler Card TC 11-H, allowing a production of four slivers at 4 gsm, more than doubling output. All the advantages and control systems of the Trützschler TC 11-H are utilised and ensure perfect sliver evenness at maximum efficiency.