Knitting & Hosiery
Groz-Beckert on site at India ITME 2022
The 11th India ITME will take place from December 8.– 13., 2022, in Noida, India. Over 1,800 exhibitors and more than 150,000 trade visitors from the textile and apparel industry from all over the world are expected. Groz-Beckert will be presenting innovations from its various product areas. In Hall 14 at Stand A4B3 in the India Exposition Mart Ltd, Groz-Beckert will be welcoming guests on site.
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Knit and go
The goal of Adidas’ ambitious Knit-For-You project was the production of customised clothing locally and by everyone, nothing more and nothing less. It combined a store with a miniature factory, allowing customers to have their very own personalised sweater knitted. There was a wide diversity of design possibilities within the set framework, and production took only a few hours. It was done directly in the pop-up store, on STOLL flat knitting machines that produced 3D flat knits in an automated ready-to-wear process.
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Warp knitting expertise for the USA
The KARL MAYER GROUP Academy trains the company’s customers all over the world, and either invites them to its sites in Germany, China and India for this purpose, or travels to see them. Only recently, in the autumn, Academy head Sophia Krinner flew from the company headquarters in Obertshausen to KARL MAYER North America in Greensboro to hold a warp knitting course, the first face-to-face event in the USA since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
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Learning from the experts: Mayer & Cie. launches Know-how Panel
“I would like to ask someone who really knows …” – we all have this wish, whether it’s about an Ikea cabinet, the printer unwilling to work or about an unusual setting at a circular knitting machine. Most of the time, however, no expert is available at precisely such moments.
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Long time, no see: Mayer & Cie. at Svenska Textilmaskinmässan
Together with the local agent Textrico Ab, Mayer & Cie. the Swedish textile machine exhibition, the Svenska Textilmaskinmässan. The industry event, which took place from October 13th to 14th, 2022 at the Textile University in Boras, was the first of its kind after a long break. The trade fair was organized by TMAS (Textile machinery association of Sweden), TEKO Sweden (interest group for textile machinery) and the Swedish Textile Technical School in Boras.
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Change technology, reap environmental benefits
The warp knitting technology is not only one of the most efficient, but also an extremely environmentally friendly technology of textile production. Especially in comparison with weaving, it shows clear advantages.
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On October 18, 2022, my TEXTILE NEWS, the new online portal powered by the KARL MAYER GROUP, went live. The website for textile professionals opens a completely new, exciting media world in which everything revolves around the technologies of warp knitting, flat knitting, warp preparation, technical textiles and composites. Innovative textile production solutions will be presented, as will textile product and market developments. Other focal points are topics such as digitalization, sustainability, general market trends and business opportunities l.
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The textile machinery trade fair CAITME was a success for Textile Technologies & Services LLC – in an unexpected discipline: The long-standing Mayer & Cie. representation under the direction of Anna Tsoy received an award for best stand design. Timo Schramm, Sales Manager of the circular knitting machine manufacturer Mayer & Cie., is delighted with the award. After all, an appealing booth is also a magnet for visitors. However, their influx was lower than expected. The reason for this was a parallel fabric fair in Moscow, which many local textile entrepreneurs used to present themselves to their customers.
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Leading computerized knitting machine manufacturer SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD. is celebrating its 60th year of business by holding an Anniversary event at its headquarters in Wakayama, Japan. The three-month long open-house event held from September through November 2022 features a virtual fashion show, a presentation of the latest proposals in DX for fashion, and machine and sample exhibits for fashion and non- fashion markets. A special 60th Anniversary website has also been launched that allows browsing of event content for those unable to attend the event physically, as well as its own online seminar agenda.
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Fast design-to-market workflows are crucial for success in trend-led businesses - and made possible by k.innovation CREATE DESIGN. The design software for KARL MAYER's successful STOLL and KM.ON brands supports end-to-end digitization of the entire knitwear design and development process for flat knitted fabrics, from cut creation and grading, through the creation of a digital knitwear design and yarn creations, to technical checks, conversion of designs into different jacquard types and data exports. For virtual patterning, cut shapes and digital textures can be exported to external 3D garment programs.
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With currently three academies in Germany, China and India, the KARL MAYER Group offers training courses for customers in warp knitting worldwide. The qualification of specialists has a long history with this global player.
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KARL MAYER GROUP acquires the yarn tensioner technology from APPALACHIAN ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS INC.
APPALACHIAN ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS INC. (AEI) and KARL MAYER GROUP agreed on August 2nd, 2022 that AEI will transfer their YTC yarn tensioner technology to KARL MAYER.
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With the HKS 3-M ON, KARL MAYER has initiated the changeover of high-performance tricot machines to the digital generation. The subsequent patterning trials at the premises of the innovative world market leader confirmed the exceptional performance of the newcomer. The HKS 3-M ON works with lapping data that can be purchased online via KARL MAYER's WEBSHOP SPARE PARTS, and loaded immediately thanks to the machine's networking.
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STOLL, a Business Unit of the KARL MAYER Group, opened a new customer center in Reutlingen-Betzingen, thus completing its move to the new location in the west of Reutlingen. The first part of the production was relocated from the city center back in 1987. This was followed in 2004 by the remaining part of the production, and in 2020 by the move into a new development center.
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