Air Covered Yarn and Its Benefits

Air Covered Yarn and Its Benefits

Air Covered Yarn (ACY) is a yarn covering process that utilizes compressed air to combine an elastic spandex core with non-elastic multifilament covering material, creating yarn with superior abrasion resistance, uniform length, durability and energy/space efficiency compared to conventional covered yarns. Furthermore, this coating method offers lower energy/space requirements than other covering technologies.

As the machine does not require a spinning reel and can easily adapt to different fabric applications, production time and efficiency increase considerably while it remains quiet and clean - both major advantages for textile producers as well as their end consumers.

The air covered yarn we produce available from fine to heavy denier levels - fine denier options provide greater intimacy while heavier denier yarns provide increased strength and resilience that makes them suitable for more demanding garments - it has many applications in textile engineering and beyond.

No matter whether it is for knitted or woven textile, the HKV204 Air Jet Spandex yarn covering machine provides the ideal elastic yarn covering solution. As a new type of technology, this machine offers significant advantages over traditional spinning or wrapping methods; operating it easily, consuming less energy, producing superior yarn products all come together into an advantageous solution.

Air Covered Yarn offers unmatched softness for clothing production. Produced using an intermingling process with spandex cover yarn drawn through an air pressure-regulated jet nozzle simultaneously from its special jet nozzle using air pressure as the flow regulator, the finished yarn doesn't require warp knitting size adjustments and can even be directly used for weft knitting; an incredible advantage over conventional covered spandex yarn.

Air covering offers many additional advantages, such as enhanced dyeing and colorfastness. Due to uniform coverage of cover yarns, it allows for better dye penetration into finished product, creating vibrant hues that last. Furthermore, washing finished yarn is much simpler, which is an important consideration when producing garments and fabrics that will need frequent washes.

Mechanically and pneumatically air-coated yarn are two primary varieties. Mechanically-coated yarn is created by winding an outer fiber filament around a core silk spandex core and twisting, while pneumatically coated yarn can be produced via an air jet nozzle spraying an air mixture of lycra and polyester onto its surface fiber surface. Mechanically covered yarn provides greater stretch. Pneumatically covered variant has more of an authentic feel.


Air Covered Yarn