Cotton is Life. Contamination Free!

You are what you eat, what you wear. I can take care of both for you :-)
I'm Waqar. I have an MBBS / MD degree, but I am currently working as a trader dealing in Textile Goods from Pakistan. I have been associated with this field since childhood, as my father managed a Textile mill then. I am used to the roar of the spinning machinery and the shape and size of the yarn cones.
The purpose of this journal is to discuss what I am learning with people all over the world, who are and are not associated with this field, but are interested. This is not just about textile, this is about my experience, so keep coming back. You might even learn a thing or two.
The image I am starting with today, is of a machine called a contamination detector. It is installed in the Blow Room section of a cotton yarn spinning unit. It looks for contamination in the raw material (cotton). Both coloured and white contamination can be detected, and the technology used is mindblowing. High definition CCD cameras, Ultrasonic detectors, you name it, they have it glued to the cotton being blown through the tubes. Everytime, they catch something, they have high powered jet nozzles to push it out of the stream very accurately, not too much, and not too little, so that the trash comes out and the useful raw material stays in.
We'll talk about these later in greater detail.
See you all soon. Thanks for visiting.