General Comparison between Filament and Staple Yarns Performance

Tenacity & Elongation

As stated above in the table, Filament yarns have excellence properties compare with Staple yarns. But still, in terms of real production each of these yarns has their own high demands usage. Although Staple yarns seams have weakness in tenacity, overcoming can be done by increasing twist on the yarns and by blends it with synthetic fibers.

Comfort

In terms of fabric production, Staple yarns contribute high comfort by providing good absorbent and heat trapped. It is really important for country which has high moisture environments.  Filaments on the other hand, seem fit for cold weather because of lack in terms of absorbent and heat trapped.

Both filament and staple yarns have their own advantages/disadvantages. Each of them is produced base on their end-use products such as fabrics, rope, and fishing yarns. Filament which majorly based on synthetic and some from natural sources, because it can be produced base on the needs in terms of its length(continuous or staple) and properties such as pre-choose coloration, alteration in physical and chemical structure have made it some advantages in production.

While for staple yarns, although it seems loss due to the length, staple still got some advantages in terms of strength which will make the yarns more stronger when the content of absorbency is higher, thus will make it suitable use for machine treatment(washing machine). Meanwhile, common technique used by the manufacturer to reduce the cost production of staple is by combining staple(cotton) with filament(polyester), at the same time it didn’t only reduce cost but also will overcome few weakness of staple yarns. Some of the new advancement have been made by researchers are like Spinning Nano Yarns(University of Texsas) ^[5], Air Jet Spinning and High Speed spinning machine.