An educational visit to a textile industry

The students of grade VI, VII and VIII went for industrial visit to Prem Textiles and Samariya Fashions. The objective of the visit was to view the processing of raw cotton to fabric. The visit was divided into 2 phases. Mr. N.K Jain, General Manager of Samariya Textiles guided our students through the entire process.

In the first session, which was on 8th September 2009, students visited the Spinning Mill(Prem Textiles). Our children perceived the process of fibre getting converted to yarn in different stages of cleaning, mixing(in Blowroom Line), carding where the fibre sheet is converted to sliver(loose yarn), drawing in Drawframe and then finally roving getting converted to yarn in the Rotar machine. They asked queries related to the pollution due to fibre floating all over and health effect on the workers. The temperature and humidity effect on the yarn and fibre also took them by surprise.

In the second session on 16th September 09, the students were taken to Weaving Mill (Samariya Fashions) where they minutely observed the auto looms and understood the process of warp and weft interweaving, which resulted in the greige fabric. They could also understand some technical part as the designing of the fabric, selvedge and the fabric checking and its parameters. The children also witnessed the faults being amended and some tried their hands on it.

Neha (mentor class II) and Shilpa (mentor class V)