Knitting

Nov272020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Mayer & Cie. extends top dog status in Turkey: above average market share, further on the increase

In pandemic year 2020 circular knitting machine manufacturer Mayer & Cie. (MCT) has further improved its leading position in Turkey. So the country continues to be one of the company’s strongest and most consistent sales markets. Even in difficult years, the manufacturer and its longstanding Turkish representative Mayer Mümessillik have achieved positive results. The reasons for this year’s success, as Mayer & Cie. sees it, are the transfer of production to locations close to Europe, Turkey’s state-of-the-art machinery and the increase in demand for comfortable clothing that is suitable as home office wear. Turkish market is a growth market despite corona setback “Compared to 2019, we anticipate a growth in the Turkish market even though the corona situation was a serious set

Nov202020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

First automated fabric inspection system for Circular Knitting Machines

Knitting

Smartex announced the launch of Smartex-V1, an advanced camera vision system that reduces defective production to close to 0% in Circular Knitting Machines, including lycra faults, yarn thickness, holes, needle defects, and more. textile factories to better manage quality & efficiency, reducing waste & time and avoid too late inspection after the rolls being entirely produced. What current clients say:“Smartex innovative technology helps our company every month by increasing production, improving quality and transparency in the supply chain” says Eng. Mario Jorge Silva, CEO at Tintex Textiles S.A. This camera inspection system is able to reduce the production costs of textile manufacturers by detecting and stopping the production machines. The system uses Computer Vision a

Nov112020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Mayer & Cie. celebrates schnapps number: Circular knitting machine 77,777 on its way to customer

Knitting

Mayer & Cie. celebrates schnapps number: Circular knitting machine 77,777 on its way to customer A Relanit 3.2 HS is packed for shipping to Toraman Tekstil in Istanbul. The Mayer & Cie. top seller is loaded onto pallets, lashed and secured, and packed in gleaming silver-coloured foil. Nothing out of the ordinary – except for the sheet of white paper marked 77777 revealing what is special about this consignment. The Relanit 3.2 HS is the 77,777th circular knitting machine that Mayer & Cie. has manufactured in over 80 years of circular knitting machine production. More infrequent than an eclipse of the Moon Circular knitting machines with a serial number consisting of five identical digits are not something that the Albstadt-based manufacturer ships to customers regularl

May302020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Customer Proximity Despite Social Distancing from KARL MAYER

Knitting

The KARL MAYER Academy goes online, in order to provide its customers with the necessary know-how, even in times of corona-caused travel restrictions. For the short-term start into the World Wide Web, the company’s own Qualification Center offers webinars lasting one hour and intended for not more than six to eight participants, because it relies on dialogue. „We don’t want any frontal teaching but interaction. In this way, we can better answer individual questions and support the development of new ideas“, explains Robert Kuna who develops KARL MAYER’s e-training concept. Moreover, the course instructor hopes to get fresh impetus for webinar topics thanks to the close cooperation of all parties involved. In addition to basic knowledge of warp knitting, divided into small units, the cl

Mar232020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Rökona Trusts In Brückner Technology

Dyeing – Finishing, Knitting

RÖKONA trusts in BRÜCKNER lines for the finishing of their high-quality textiles. Shortly after the end of World War II, Gerhard Rösch established in 1949 with only one knitting machine the textile company Gerhard Rösch GmbH in Tübingen in the South of Germany. At that time the company produced mainly sleepwear textiles for ladies and polo shirts as well as men’s shirts. With the foundation of RÖKONA GmbH & Co. KG in 1963, the company established itself also as innovative textile producer beyond the clothing industry and provided very soon well-known automotive manufacturers with technical textile solutions. Today RÖKONA develops and produces a wide range of demanding textiles for the complete mobility sector as well as for industrial applications, from building protection to me

Feb232020 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Benninger AG Acquires LAB-PRO

Dyeing – Finishing, Knitting, Spinning - Yarn, Weaving

Benninger AG expands its product portfolio in growing markets. Benninger is the world's leading manufacturer of technologically advanced textile finishing and tire cord machinery for the global textile, tire and conveyor belt manufacturing markets. Benninger offers complete solutions for all major textile finishing processes, with a special expertise in the field of continuous open width processing of woven, knitted and technical textiles with minimum resource consumption. LAB-PRO GmbH was founded in 2003 by Thomas Widmer and Thomas Gerhard. With their excellent market and product knowledge, they have succeeded in building up a complete range of world-leading technological products for discontinuous wet finishing within 17 years. Especially the jet dyeing machines and jiggers from LA...

Nov272019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Groz-Beckert at Techtextil India

Knitting, Nonwoven

Groz-Beckert exhibited its products in the Felting and Carding segments at Techtextil India. Took place from 20 to 22 November Techtextil India welcomed an international audience to the biennial trade fair in Mumbai, India. At Techtextil India visitors learned about Groz Beckerts’ product benefits – now and in the future. “dur” In the Felting product sector Groz-Beckert presented its new base material combined with a patented manufacturing process, called “dur”. The higher wear resistance and the improved corrosion resistance already work out for Groz-Beckert customers all around the globe. The company plans to extend the dur version to the complete product range, soon. A man-sized needle Within the traditional nonwovens industry, Groz-Beckert's GEBECON® felting needle pro

May32019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Staubli to Exhibit Its Extensive Range at ITMA Barcelona

Knitting, Weaving

With continual R&D activities, Stäubli delivers machinery that perfectly meets evolving market demands and the associated customer requirements. With core competencies in shedding (cam motions, dobbies, and Jacquard machines) and weaving preparation (drawing-in, leasing, and warp-tying machines) Stäubli plays an important role in the design and quality of woven end-products. Based on over a century of experience in the traditional textile industry and its continuous R&D activities, Stäubli constantly offers new and improved high-performance systems and solutions for processing fabrics for fashion, home textiles, automotive, protection, carpeting, and highly complex technical textiles. At this year’s ITMA in Barcelona, Stäubli will be showing a selection of its latest product

May22019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

Innovations From The Textile World For Modern Life

Fairs, Knitting, Sustainability & Recycling, Textile

KARL MAYER will be presenting state-of-the art technology and best-of-textile solutions for warp knitting, warp preparation and technical textiles at ITMA, in Barcelona. KARL MAYER will take its visitors on a voyage of discovery through the textile world of tomorrow at ITMA, which is to be held from 20 to 26 June 2019. The meeting-point for all this will be at stand 8.0/B107 on the exhibition site in Barcelona. Here, the visitors can expect a display of highly efficient, complete solutions for production, which will give them the edge over their competitors in the long term. The show includes flexible, trendsetting machines with excellent cost: benefit ratios for use in warp knitting, innovations in warp sampling and direct warping for the warp preparation sector, a completely new machi...

Apr172019 by Textile Planet MagazineNo Comments

French Machinery@ITMA 2019

Associations, Dyeing – Finishing, Fairs, Fibers, Knitting, Nonwoven, Spinning - Yarn, Sustainability & Recycling, Weaving

French Textile Machinery Manufacturers will offer hardware, software and most wanted services at ITMA 2019. Evelyne CHOLET, the Secretary General of their association, states that “the French textile machinery manufacturers are technology partners for their customers. Together they cooperate on long term basis often from a specially designed machine to many after sales services”. The objective of these services is to let the customers get the best return from their investments. They include, for examples, remote assistance through internet, spare parts availability and upgrading. “In fact, she adds, often, even before the investment decision is made, the machinery manufacturers’ R&D teams work directly with the customers to design specialty machines”. French textile machinery