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About MESDAN SPA MESDAN SPA, based in Italy and founded in 1952, now part of Vandewiele, has reached a leading position worldwide in the field of yarn joining and textile laboratory equipment. Yarn Joining Solutions: Mesdan splicers (trademarks Jointair, Aquasplicer, Hot Jointair, Moistair), are designed in the automatic version for automatic winders, and in the semi-automatic version for hand operated installations and are suitable for spun or filament, regular or technical yarns and rovings. For TEXTILE RECYCLING, in the golden hierarchy of the “3Rs” (reduce, reuse, recycle), MESDAN SPLICING technology allows to joint waste tubes from weaving, by rewinding them on both manual and automatic machines, giving new life to yarn waste. The fresh technological novelty is related to the possibility of recycling multifilament yarns by using automatic winders. Previously, multifilament yarns could be rewound only by using manual winders with hand operated splicers. Recently, Mesdan and Savio (well known autowinder manufacturer and Mesdan’s sister company) developed this unique machine on the market, the AUTOMATIC WINDER FOR MULTIFILAMENT YARNS. According to length and diameter of the waste bobbins, different configurations are available. Due to heavy footprint of polyester and nylon, this fresh novelty is receiving an excellent market response. Laboratory equipment: engineered, designed and manufactured in Italy, the MESDAN LAB division offers a complete range of instruments for a variety of different textile materials, for all production processes (spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing & finishing), as well as for the educational or R&D and classing institutes. For TEXTILE RECYCLING, Mesdan showcase the LAB SHREDDING MACHINE, an equipment for simulating the textile mechanical recycling in miniature; it is an ideal solution for R&D as well as for the recycling of small lots of textile waste. Like a real production machine, it transforms different types of textiles (yarns, knitted or woven fabrics, unsold or worn garments, etc) into their original fiber form, for the evaluation of their recycling properties. In addition, the MINI SPINNING LINE gives the possibility of eventually blending them with virgin fibers, for testing the spinnability of those obtained recycled fibers. For the evaluation of the virgin and recycled fibers, the Mesdan-Lab range offers various testing equipment, for the fiber length distribution (CLASSIBER), the neps content and the opening grade (NATI). TENSOLAB 4 is the versatile tensile strength tester of the line, suitable also for the single fiber and fiber bundle analysis of strength, elongation and tenacity. The microscope system VIDEO ANALYZER, with the special software developed by Mesdan, is used in recycling for the optical sorting: it recognizes the fiber, the blend percentage as well as the fineness of the round shaped fibers, all that following the most requested textile standard methods.