Production process
REGGIANI WOOL FACTORY creates and develops the stretch fabric entirely in its plants in Italy.
The vertical structure allows following more efficiently all production steps in order to guarantee final product quality.
The yarn, purchased from the best world manufacturers, is the raw material from which Reggiani starts the treatments.Twisting
It’s the first step that creates, in our plants, the elastic yarn.
This treatment creates the doubling of the yarn in one or more garments, the insertion of the LYCRA fiber and then the yarn twisting. Finally the cones are vaporized to fix fiber twisting.
Warping
Cones coming from the twisting are placed in the creel of warping machines according to the layout established by the technical office to form the warp of the fabric that then will be transferred on the beam of the loom.
Stringing
Yarns, previously warped and placed on the beam, pass through meshes or fins contained in the frames which, with their motion, determine the weave (fabric pattern).
Weaving
Fabric creation.
During the weaving stage beams are loaded on the loom with the relative frames that will form, together with the weft, the fabric.
Raw inspection
Before checking the pieces produced in weaving, which are accurately inspected, measured and mended to be placed in finishing and dyeing.
Dyeing and finishing
The important stage that determines quality, aspect and touch of the fabric. In this department the “raw” pieces, coming from the weaving, are prepared for next treatments like dyeing and finishing.
Finished inspection
The pieces received from finishing are at first pre-inspected for colour and vapour shrinkage values with the Hoffman press.
Then pieces are inspected by qualified staff on electronic specula with methods that can be customized by the customer.
Quality assurance lab
Each item of our collection is certified through strict tests concerning quality.
Inside the laboratory light solidity, acid and alkaline sweat, dry and humid rubbing are controlled, and tests are made on seams sliding, resistance, pilling and wear.
The positive outcome of these checks means the item is inserted in the collection preparing the data sheet with the relative values found in the tests.
Otherwise some treatment stages are evaluated again such as dyeing, finishing and weaving in order to solve and remove the problems concerning the fabric.
To guarantee a high quality standard, Reggiani constantly repeats the tests also on items already tested.