#ITM 2026

2026-05-14

EVENEXT & BURSTMATIC II to headline Mesdan S.p.A. presentation at ITM 2026

MESDAN S.p.A. will once again participate in ITM 2026, Turkey’s most important textile trade fair. The Italy-based leading manufacturer of yarn joining solutions and textile testing equipment,will be exhibiting at the booth of their local agent for the spinning, SARTEKS MAKINA at Hall 7, Stand 701A.

Mesdan will be exhibiting latest technology.

EVENEXT

The next generation of evenness testers, equipped with hairiness sensor, for all types of natural and manmade spun yarns, as well as sliver and roving. The equipment is designed in a modular configuration, ready to be upgraded with the incorporated automatic cop changing system and the creel, for the automatic testing from up to 24 bobbins. This new version is endowed with ceramic sensors for the utmost accuracy and best consistency in results and for a minor influence of the ambient conditions. Designed with the latest mechanical and electronic components and with new intuitive and flexible software.

BURSTMATIC II

The well-known pneumatic strength tester, for the analysis of the resistance of woven and knitting fabrics to the bursting strength, as well as for performing release-and-extension cycle tests (hysteresis/fatigue testing). It can be equipped with interchangeable domes for accomplishing various international and private test methods on the different materials.

Mesdan can offer complete laboratory solutions for all the weaving, knitting, dyeing and printing mills, as well as for the R&D and testing institutes, and the garment manufacturers and retail stores. Physical testing (strength, elongation, tearing, abrasion, pilling, air & water permeability, dimensional stability, etc.), colour fastness (to washing, rubbing, light exposure, perspiration), fire and comfort testing are part of the Mesdan-Lab catalogue.

Additionally, as a world specialist in yarn joining, Mesdan offers solutions for all the needs of the spinners (for the automatic winders, the assembling and twisting machines), as well as for the yarn dyers, the sewing and technical thread producers (for the hard/soft rewinding machines), for the weaving and knitting mills (for the warping creels and the looms), and for all those customers manufacturing and processing fiber glass, carbon fiber, carpet yarns, tyre cord, and many other textile mills.

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