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Ginners Marketplace COTTON FARMING IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE GINNING INDUSTRY.

Contamination Prevention Remains a Priority I have written multiple articles about contamination — which also has received a focus at several recent industry meetings — because U.S. cotton is facing fierce competition from other growths and man-made fibers.

Unfortunately, we continue to receive more than a few complaints, along with samples of contaminated fabric, from our textile mill customers. Most of the samples are plastic films, among them irrigation pipes, ditch liners, sheet mulches used in vegetable production, shopping bags and round module wrap. Other significant plastic contaminants are monofilament yarns, twines and similar products.

A growing number of spinners have sophisticated systems in place that can detect most, but not all, of these contaminants. These systems often cost several hundred thousand dollars, but each system’s maximum capacity is only 40 to 60 cotton bales in a 12-hour shift.

I am pleased to report that all three of our U.S. ginning laboratories, in collaboration with other researchers, are investigating innovative methods to detect, separate and extract plastic contamination prior to the ginning process.

However, developing practical systems to remove plastic at the gin takes time, and extraction systems will not be accepted at modern high-volume cotton gins until costs come down and throughput goes up.

Have A Good Offense The best lint contamination defense is a good offense — preventing contaminants from entering seed cotton. With harvest underway in many Cotton Belt areas, the National

Lummus Corporation has available the following quality, high-capacity used gin machinery.

All machinery is offered “as is, where is” (unless noted otherwise) and is subject to prior sale.

“As is” machinery can be repaired/reconditioned for an additional charge.

1 – Consolidated 96” R-5000 Stick Machine* 2 – Consolidated 120” R-5000 Stick Machines* 1 – Lummus 60” overshot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot Standard Battery Condenser* 1 – Consolidated 72” undershot MC Battery Condenser* 1 – 1997 model Ginning/Lint Cleaning Line, consisting of a 96” wide Model 700TM Feeder, 170-Saw ImperialTM III Gin, Super-Jet® Lint Cleaner, and Model 108 Lint Cleaner 1 – Belt-Wide 75-HP Flooded-Suction Hydraulic Booster Pumping Unit 1 – Lubbock Electric Hydraulic Pumping Unit for Gin Dor-Les® or E.E. Dor-Les® Press (single reservoir with multiple motor/pump groups) 1 – Lummus Bale Handling System for up-packing press 1 – Lot, miscellaneous Burner and Moisture Unit components (contact us for details) * - does not include any Steel Supports or Platforms

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2 – Lummus Model 66 Lint Cleaners with Condensers

1 - Complete 2/141 Gin Plant consisting of: Unloading System with 15” diameter single-lane Powered Telescope, Rock Trap with Trash Vacuum, 72” Unloading Separator/Feed Control with Vacuum Wheel and Flight-Saver, and No. 50 Unloading Fan; First-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Horn 3-Saw Stick Machine (with double 96” x 24” Vacuum Wheels), Second-Stage Drying/Precleaning System with Continental 3 MBTU Burner and No. 40 Push Fan, 54” Tower Dryer, 96” Continental Inclined Cleaner with Vacuum Wheel over 96” Continental 2-Saw Stick Machine; Distribution/Overflow System with Continental 2-Stand Conveyor Distributor and 72” Automatic Overflow Hopper with Breaker Cylinder; Feeding/Ginning System with two (2) Continental 141-Saw Gins (converted) and 96” Comet Supreme Feeders; Lint Cleaning System with four (4) 66” wide Continental 16-D Lint Cleaners (two tandem arrangements); Condensing/Pressing System with 50” Moss Battery Condenser, 20” x 54” Continental Bespress, and Bale Handling System with Bale Push Cart (manual) and Bagger (powered); five (5) Smith 35/40 Centrifugal Fans (only one season of operation)

Cotton Ginners’ Association (NCGA) and the National Cotton Council (NCC) are urging cotton industry members to maintain their focus on contamination prevention.

Website Links To Contamination Prevention Resources To assist, the NCC created a new “Keep It Clean” Web page that contains links to contamination prevention resources. For example, at www.cotton. org/tech/quality/contamfree.cfm are materials that ginners can use in reminding producers to make sure harvest crews watch for and remove from fields any potential seed cotton contaminants. Yes, the picker or stripper may have to stop during harvest to remove shopping bags or pieces of poly tubing, but this is a much better option than hoping that it will be removed at the gin.

Materials on this Web page also remind workers to exercise care when handling conventional modules as covers and tie downs still pose problems. In fact, one contaminant I hoped had been eliminated still is being found – colored baler twine, rope or cord used as a module tarp tie down. I made a few calls and was surprised that hay baler twine threaded through or under a module still is being used in some areas to tie down module covers. As a reminder, never use “plastic” rope or twine to secure module tarps. Only 100 percent cotton ropes or strapping should be used.

The odds are these and other plastic contaminants that end up in the middle of a module will find their way to the textile mill. They may end up damaging finished yarn or fabric and costing those mills hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.

Increasingly, efforts are made to trace the contamination back to the source, accompanied by claims for the damages. Even more devastating, though, is a likely loss of markets to competing cottons and/or man-made fibers.

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Handle Round Module Wrap Correctly Over the past three years, the NCGA and the NCC have been especially proactive on a particularly vexing problem — round module wrap being found by mills when bales are opened. As part of the effort to train gin employees, the NCC created a 24-by-18-inch poster in both English and Spanish that describes the techniques for round module handling and wrap removal. The poster is available from the NCC’s contamination prevention web page mentioned above, and it can be requested by calling the NCC at 901-274-9030.

This poster is an excellent companion to another resource available from that Web page — NCGA’s Round Module Safety, Volume VI, video.

I cannot emphasize enough that this video should be viewed by all employees who are involved in transporting, handling or opening round modules.

Harrison Ashley, executive vice president of the National Cotton Ginners’ Association, contributed this article.

Contact him at 901-274-9030 or hashley@cotton.org.

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Cotton’s Calendar

LEC-200 Electronic Seed Scale

2016 Sept. 21: Staplcotn Annual Meeting, Greenwood, Miss.

Sept. 26: Calcot Ltd. Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix, Ariz.

2017 Jan. 4-6: Beltwide Cotton Conferences, Dallas, Texas.

Jan. 18-21: Southern Southeastern Annual Meeting, Charlotte, N.C. Feb. 10-12: NCC Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

March 3-4: Mid-South Farm & Gin Show, Memphis, Tenn.

April 6-7: Texas Cotton Ginners Association Trade Show, Lubbock, Texas.

June 6-8: Cotton Incorporated Meeting.

July 10-12: Southern Southeastern Mid-Year Board Meeting, Marriott Grand Dunes, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Aug. 8-10: Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated Joint Meeting.

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