"British count" is a unit to measure the thickness of the yarn. The larger the count, the finer the yarn and the higher the woven fabric. How thin is the 700 British branch? ! A 700 British yarn is even thinner than Xiaobian's hair!
Comparison of 700 British count yarn (middle) and hair under microscope
The huge breakthrough in yarn research and development is not only derived from the craftsman spirit of excellence and the pursuit of the ultimate, but also benefited from the advantages of Esquer's vertically integrated supply chain from cottonseed research to garment manufacturing. 25 years of intensive cultivation in Xinjiang and spare no effort to promote the sustainable development of long-staple cotton have allowed Esquel to obtain the highest quality Xinjiang long-staple cotton raw materials. The length of cotton fiber can reach the industry-leading 37 mm. The incomparable cotton fiber also laid an important foundation for Esquel to develop "the world's finest yarn".
In addition to good cotton, there is also a R&D team composed of front-line backbones and engineers such as R&D centers, spinning mills, weaving mills, and dyeing factories. 200 consecutive days and nights between the laboratory and the first-line workshops, conquering 8 worlds After the technical difficulties, I finally found a way to make the yarn "the finest in the world". In fact, as early as 2003, Esquel first developed 170 British counts of pure cotton yarn products in the industry. Since then, it has successfully advanced to 200 British counts and 330 British counts. However, the R&D team is not satisfied and has been exploring pure cotton. The limits of spinning technology.
If the mass production of 330 British count yarns has enabled Esquel to stand in the "Mount Everest base camp", then the successful development of 700 British count yarns has enabled Esquel to successfully climb the "Mount Everest" of pure cotton spinning technology. ".
The thickness of 700 British yarns is less than half of the thinnest 330 British yarns at the time. It not only set the record of the world's finest pure cotton yarn and keeps it until now, but also an interesting episode: How to test Whether the newly developed yarn actually reaches "700 British counts" has become a "new problem" in the industry. Only because at that time there was no third-party testing agency in the world with sufficiently advanced methods to accurately conduct identification.
One method used in traditional testing is the "weighing method", such as picking a certain length of yarn, weighing it, and then performing corresponding calculations to determine "how many British counts" the yarn is. Later, the National Textile Appraisal Agency and the Esquel Project scientific research team worked together to improve the traditional detection methods based on the testing principles, and developed new identification methods, combined with microscopes and other methods for testing, and finally issued an authoritative The appraisal report has passed the appraisal of the results of the expert group of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, giving the world the birth of the "world's finest" yarn. When the ultimate meets the ultimate, another miracle can be created.
