ARS COTTON MACHINE – USA COTTON CLEANING COTTON WASTE`
May 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE UNITED States' Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has developed two new machines to improve cotton lint cleaning to help cotton ginners avoid losing good fibre during processing. Most cotton is currently processed with the same machine sequence, regardless of its specific needs, wasting good fibre. One of the new lint cleaners developed by the ARS is called a dual-saw cleaner because it consists of a standard, saw-type lint cleaner with an added secondary saw retaining longer fibres ejected by the primary saw. Said an agency official: ...
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