Tool For Spinners To Evaluate Performance Vis-À-Vis Others
The Cotton Council International (CCI) has launched an essential new benchmarking tool – the COTTON USA Mill Performance Index for spinning mills, which allows mills to evaluate their performance vis-à-vis others and definitively show the positive impact of US cotton.
The COTTON USA Mill Performance Index anonymously collects data from participating spinning mills and gives performance measurements across five key cost drivers like material yield, machine productivity, labour productivity, efficiency management and energy management.
“Data security is a top priority, and anonymity is guaranteed,” CCI informed.
“The benchmarking capability of this tool has the potential to transform a mill’s performance,” said CCI Executive Director Bruce Atherley. “The tool shows how mills compare to their direct competition and how sourcing US cotton ultimately increases productivity and provides higher yields.”
The launch follows a successful pilot program involving 47 mills across 13 countries and the program showed US cotton increased labour productivity and led to better running conditions or less ends down, higher yield in combed and carded yarns, higher machine productivity and higher spindle speed.
According to CCI, the tool is available on an invitation-only basis to spinning mills that are members of the US Cotton Trust Protocol and consume at least 10,000 bales of US Upland and Supima cotton.
