How are towels made?

 How are towels made?

How are towels made?

 

   We are 1888 mills here in Griffin Georgia and at this plant, we make towels using some of the finest cotton that is grown right here in Georgia. Part of the textile heritage you find in our name 1888 titles have been continuously made at Griffin since 1888.

1888 is the largest title manufacturer in the United States with 290 employees in the facility Manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution About 40 Sales Marketing Finance and administrative functions 1888 Mills has three sales groups Retail Hospitality and retail Healthcare Our largest Customer is Walmart we do too. A lot of the e-commerce we sell with hotels like the Hyatt, make all the Hyatt bath tiles that you see are made right here in Griffin Georgia, we actually run the thread so we have the original raw material in the plant.

How to make the towel:

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Yarn that's already been spun into yarn, cotton is a great fiber because how do you make a yarn that's ultimately going to be made into a towel you take the yarn that you lengthen, take out any waste from the yarn, and put a twist on it. This is what gives it the strength to make the length of the cotton staple when you put a twist in it because you have to have something to hold onto to make that twist so you can make that twist in a long length. put Georgia high-altitude cotton is better.

Certainly for anything we're trying to do the yarn comes on metered cones so we know exactly for quality purposes how many yards are on that cone so when it comes from the first step. When passing through, we call it warping and it is entering the thread. Lengthwise through the towel we will put the yarn cones in the warping machine it will have about 650 cones so how many ends of this warp beam we always start in the warping room. will make 13 to 14 beams for

In an eight-hour shift, the arm breaks and there's a light that comes on and it tells you which row it's on and you go down there and pick it up and bring it back up and reattach it where it goes, and put it back on. restart. In the other process we call sizing, we do two things in sizing, we pass it from the warp beam to the loom beam so that it can run on the loom equipment, and the other thing is we give it a little more power because the pressure on the looms is great. Is. severe so we use biodegradable starch.

Reclaimed starch that actually coats the yarn like spaghetti On the initial process we have to start with two different types if you don't have the size it will break easily so you coat the yarn with starch And then from that process we go straight to the towel weaving and the sheet is very similar to a sheet with the lengthwise direction you make the shed and you go through some width correction and so on. It closes back and forth, which is what makes a towel a towel. Like a

 

How are towels made?

Every other end except the sheet, we're going to hit a horribly. You have a big spool of thread on top of that, and below that is a big spool of thread that goes through three different things. It lies and when it passes, it reads. The final process of stuffing or going across the thread and tightening the towel makes the loops in the towel cherry by this process we call them gray because they will be on larger rolls we call them gray because they seem a little. The gray side of the color is mainly natural oil.

Cotton creates this color by itself so first we're going to bleach them where we use diluted peroxide to get it out of the fabric and this process will bleach it now our Most hospitality towels keep retail towels white only. They will go through the dyeing process. These are reactive dyes so they have to go into the fiber, which cotton absorbs them very well. Wash through the series as it goes.

The drying process is actually some of the latest technology we have for drying tiles is still in rope form so they're just in a long string of tiles but the wind blows them into this rope form so it rings. That takes the pile up. We dewater a little bit from the dry cans. We can dewater about 40%, but the rest is basically dried in the dryer and brought out the other side. Then we fabricate or cut and take, basically towels. are

A tile is wide but they are on a roll of towels because they have gone through the whole process when the towels are woven they actually have a cut line where the machines know where to cut that particular towel. So the laser machines that are very sophisticated in sewing will read where to cut. The first step is they cut the towels into individual tiles, and then they will turn the hem as they turn the hem. I will add a label. Will sew this label.

I and then they will be inspected and folded and then ready to go into packaging in I work in the sewing department repair they come from another machine you know from the text box and the text Bar cut it and hem it and then one time they hem it and then the next you know if it doesn't fit right they put it in the repair machine and when I go and get it And once I do that I fold them up making sure I see them well. And then take them there. We'll usually pack them.

So that nothing is going to happen to them in transit, they have a plastic package in a carton. The recyclable plastic goes through our computer scanners to make sure the weight and all the identification are correct. Then they go on a conveyor belt. They are stored in our warehouse in an adjacent building or immediately go to the shipping dock and then out the door to the customer.

 

 

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