FAISALABAD: The National Textile University (NTU) has developed a lab scale sizing machine which is energy efficient due to its innovative heating/drying system.

NTU officials briefed on the machine a delegation of industrialists comprising All Pakistan Sizing Industries Association and Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) members.

Both sides agreed to join hands making the sizing sector cost and energy efficient.

The machine has been developed by the weaving department of the university and Dr Yasir Nawab (principal investigator) and Muhammad Ayub Asghar (co-principal investigator) briefed the delegation about the features of the machine.

They said the machine consumed 20-30 per cent less energy from other conventional machines and offered economical trial run for standardisation of sizing recipe and optimisation of cost.

Former FCCI president Muhammad Nawaz, Vice-President Ahmad Hasan and former All Pakistan Sizing Association president Haji Talib Hussain were present.

The Pakistan Science Foundation financially helped the NTU to develop the machine.

The NTU team would visit three (top, average and low levels) sizing industries to be proposed by the sizing association to advise them changes for saving energy in the existing setups.

Furthermore, the NTU will examine the existing sizing recipes and standardise them using the new sizing machine so that cost and quality of sizing is improved.

Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2017