Energy costs represent 20 percent of the total cost of ginning and vary widely across facilities. Identifying best practices for reducing energy consumption is important to gin owners, managers, and ...

Blacksburg, Va. – Virginia Tech researchers are working on technologies that could create a new industry from a problem in the state's cotton-growing region. "Our goal is to add a value to the cotton ...

This famous invention has a complex history. Eli Whitney had just graduated from Yale University in 1792, when he accepted a ...

In 1793, Eli Whitney came up with the idea for a machine that would separate the sticky green seeds from the fluffy white ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and replaced ...

When a cotton gin is used to separate cotton fibers from their seeds, a lot of lint is produced as a waste product. Currently, much of that cotton lint is just burned or put in landfills. Thanks to ...

The gins that remain can process much higher volumes than in past years, thanks to innovations from field to gin. One of those includes compacting harvested bolls into rectangular or round modules to ...

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A little bit of Prattville history has made it back home. Auburn University has donated a cotton gin bought from Continental Eagle Co. in 1923. The machine was used by students ...

Local farmer Jack Scott was recently presented a plaque for his service of nearly 30 years as a member of the board of director at Tri County Cotton Gin in Salters. Scott was one of at least 27 local ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Boone Hall Plantation is celebrating the completion of a newly renovated multi-use event space on the property. The historic Cotton Gin House was built in the 1850s for ...

COLUMBIA — Instead of more typical announcements of business hours, holidays or hiring opportunities, The Cotton Gin in Columbia's Five Points bar district uses its marquee to hop onto online trends ...