#SKS-771 Air Spandex Covering Machinery
SKS-771 Air Spandex Covering Machine is an advanced textile machine specially designed for producing high-quality elastic covered yarn. It combines Spandex (elastane) with outer fibers such as Polyester, Nylon, Polyamide, and other suitable yarns. Through high-speed airflow and precise tension control, the outer fibers are evenly wrapped around the Spandex core, producing Air Covered Yarn with excellent elasticity, softness, uniformity, and stable quality.
In today’s textile industry, elastic yarn is widely used in sportswear, yoga wear, underwear, swimwear, socks, leggings, seamless garments, medical textiles, and high-stretch knitted fabrics. Therefore, reliable and efficient equipment for producing Air Covered Yarn is highly valuable to yarn manufacturers and textile processing factories.
1. High Production Efficiency
The SKS-771 uses advanced air-covering technology to continuously process Spandex and covering fibers at high speed. Compared with conventional processing methods, air covering enables efficient continuous production and helps manufacturers significantly increase output.
For factories producing large volumes of elastic covered yarn, higher production capacity means more yarn can be produced using the same factory space and labor resources, helping reduce the production cost per kilogram and improve overall profitability.
2. Uniform and Consistent Yarn Quality
One of the most important requirements for Air Covered Yarn is uniform coverage of the outer fibers around the Spandex core. Uneven covering can cause exposed Spandex, insufficient coverage, inconsistent appearance, and problems during subsequent knitting or weaving processes.
The SKS-771 uses precise yarn guiding, tension control, and air-jet technology to distribute the covering fibers evenly around the Spandex core, creating a stable and consistent yarn structure.
3. Stable Spandex Tension Control
Spandex has a high degree of elasticity, making tension control extremely important during the covering process. Excessive tension may affect the elasticity and recovery properties of the yarn, while insufficient tension may result in unstable covering.
The SKS-771 allows the Spandex tension to be adjusted according to different Spandex specifications and production requirements. This helps maintain stable processing conditions and improves the consistency of elasticity and overall yarn quality.
4. Excellent Elasticity and Soft Hand Feel
With proper air covering, the Spandex core is evenly surrounded by the outer fibers, improving the surface characteristics of the yarn and providing excellent softness, stretchability, elasticity, and wearing comfort.
These characteristics make SKS-771 Air Covered Yarn particularly suitable for close-fitting and high-stretch textile products such as underwear, sportswear, yoga wear, socks, swimwear, and seamless garments.
5. Suitable for Various Fiber Materials
The SKS-771 is designed to work with different types of covering fibers according to specific product requirements. Suitable materials may include Polyester, Nylon, Polyamide, and other compatible filament or staple fibers.
By combining different Spandex specifications with different covering fibers, manufacturers can develop Air Covered Yarn with different levels of elasticity, softness, appearance, and functional performance. This allows factories to expand their product range and serve a wider variety of markets.
6. Lower Production Costs
For textile manufacturers, the purpose of investing in advanced machinery is not only to increase production capacity but also to reduce the manufacturing cost per kilogram.
The SKS-771 helps achieve this through high-speed production, stable processing, reduced manual intervention, and consistent yarn quality. At the same time, improved covering uniformity can reduce defective products, reprocessing, and raw-material waste, further lowering production costs.
7. Opportunity for High-Value Textile Products
As global demand continues to increase for comfortable, elastic, functional, and performance-oriented fabrics, Air Covered Yarn has become an important raw material for many high-value textile products.
With the SKS-771, manufacturers can produce different specifications of elastic covered yarn for knitting mills, hosiery manufacturers, sportswear factories, underwear manufacturers, and high-stretch fabric producers.
This creates opportunities for factories to expand their product portfolio, enter new markets, and increase their value-added production.
The SKS-771 Air Spandex Covering Machine is more than just a yarn-covering machine. It is a complete production solution designed to help textile manufacturers increase productivity, improve quality, reduce production costs, and develop higher-value products.
With its high-speed air-covering technology, stable Spandex tension control, uniform fiber coverage, flexible material compatibility, and consistent production performance, the SKS-771 enables manufacturers to produce Air Covered Yarn with excellent elasticity, softness, uniform appearance, and stable quality.
For textile companies looking to expand their elastic yarn business, increase production efficiency, reduce labor costs, minimize material waste, and establish a modern Air Covered Yarn production line, the SKS-771 is a highly valuable investment that can significantly strengthen their production capabilities and competitiveness in the global textile market.
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Types of winding |
precision winding |
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Mechanical speed |
up to 1000m/min (process speed depending on process parameters) |
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Package shape |
freely programmable |
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Traverse length |
155-250mm |
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Take-up package diameter |
up to 200mm |
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Package weight |
up to 2-5kg |
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Supply package diameter |
up to 320mm |
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Yarns |
like polyester, nylon, DTY, spandex and etc. |
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Take-up tubes |
cylindrical and conical up to 3°30" conicity |
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Layout |
single sided machine |
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Number of spindles per section |
4 Spindles |
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Max spindles per set |
48 |
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Gauge |
400mm |
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Roll numbers |
3 rollers |
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Drive |
individual |
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Installed power |
~400w per spindle |
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Power consumption |
~120w per spindle |
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Density of winding |
Freely programable |
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Size per section (L*W*H) |
1900*760*2000mm |