York Detection Systems Ltd. was created in 2001 as a new technology company, to develop, manufacture and market the world's best performing digital needle detector systems for the garment and footwear manufacturing industry.

With a combined specialist experience of over 75 years in the field of industrial metal detection, and already pioneers in the design and application of needle detectors, YDS introduced the Needletech® range of metal detectors which offer the user a new level of plug-and-play performance, unmatched by rival products.

Needle Detectors for the Quality Conscious Garment Manufacturer

YDS machines not only exceed the industry sensitivity criteria for needle detection, but also offer an unmatched level of tolerance to permitted metal accessories (zips, buckles, poppers etc). And, all this ‘laboratory condition’ performance is available in the presence of electrical and magnetic noise which is typically present on a garment manufacturing factory floor. Our machines are immune to sewing machine interference and other sources of noise, which the magnet based ‘first-generation’ machines cannot cope with. The garment manufacturer no longer has to provide ‘exclusion zones’ in order to achieve the best performance, YDS needle detectors are designed to be fit for the purpose of working in a garment factory!

Even if the factory suffers from high fluctuations of the mains supply voltage, our needle detectors provide trouble free operation.

It is a testimony to the strength of our technology and the application experience of our team that within a very short space of time we have extended our installation base to virtually all-major garment producing regions of the world. Leading retailers, like GAP and H&M have seen the quality enhancing potential of our machines and have awarded YDS a preferred supplier status.