Unifi, a leading innovator in recycled and synthetic FDY dope dyed yarns, has announced that its board of directors has appointed Edmund Ingle as chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors, effective July 1, 2020. Ingle has spent 30 years with Unifi in progressively senior roles from 1986 to 2018 before becoming an executive with Indorama Ventures. After more than forty years of dedicated and exceptional service to Unifi, Thomas Caudle, junior president and chief operating officer of the company, has announced his retirement effective June 27, 2021. Caudle will continue to be president and chief operating officer through his retirement date,

Crealet has launched the new yarn tension measuring device LC. It is designed as a long-term measuring unit and monitors or measures the yarn tension during an ongoing yarn processing operation. Crealet is a Swiss company and a leading manufacturer of electronic warp feeding systems and other innovative solutions for both wide and narrow fabric weaving. With this device, the textile industry is provided with a tool with which tension analyses can be carried out, warp tensions of two warp beams can be synchronised, quality monitoring can be carried out, and so on. Various measuring heads are available for measuring the warp tension.

They can easily be inserted into the warp ends and held in position by means of a ball locking cable, Crealet said in a press release. Two measuring heads can be connected simultaneously to the yarn tension measuring device LC. It is possible to simultaneously display current, minimum, and maximum yarn tension. The simple zero adjustment guarantees an accurate measurement. The digital display can send measurements via a CANopen or USB interface to a remote computer for visualisation of the measurements. Several devices can be connected via the CAN interface to visualise several measurements simultaneously.