Recent developments in two-for-one twisting and their relevance to Indian textile units

263-266Two-for-one twisters have gained wide acceptance in the international as well as in the Indian markets. This paper describes the recent developments, including those exhibited at ITMA-91, in TFO twisters and their relevance to Indian textile units. The developments are mainly in the application areas, machine productivity, refinement in the functional parts, automation and process control instrumentation, and environmental compatibility of the machines. A cost comparison of twisting on low-cost completely indigenous machine and high-cost but high productivity machine is also made