#Knitting & Hosiery

2025-03-11

KARL MAYER wins trademark dispute

KARL MAYER’s textile machines are renowned for their outstanding quality, efficiency and dependability, ensuring the high level of performance customers expect. As a global market leader, the company has registered trademarks for many of its innovative products, including PROWARP for its sectional warping machine in 2015, KARL MAYER PROSIZE for its sizing machine in 2012 and PRODYE for its indigo dyeing unit in 2018.

Strong defence secures the trademark rights for PROWARP, KARL MAYER PROSIZE and PRODYE © 2025 KARL MAYER

The strong reputation of KARL MAYER’s successful warp preparation brand family has led to copycat activity, prompting the company to take legal action in Turkey. After a lengthy court case, KARL MAYER ultimately prevailed when it was ruled that the competitors, Proteknik Tekstil San. ve D?s Tic. A.S. and Prosmh Makina Pazarlama Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi, had exploited these trademarks for unfair gain. A cease-and-desist letter had failed to put an end to the ongoing infringement, but with effect from 12 December 2024, a regional court ruling upheld KARL MAYER’s case. This prohibits the commercial use of the contested terms in relation to the manufacture, sale, packaging, storage and distribution of competing machines. The restriction applies across the full scope of the trademark rights, covering Turkey as well as all online activities.

KARL MAYER’s perseverance has ultimately paid dividends.

“We invested a great deal of money and pursued legal action for nearly seven years to protect not only our proprietary technology, but also our customer and reputation,” explains Martin Fuhr, Head of Product Portfolio Management, Business Unit Warp Preparation at KARL MAYER.

Innovations worth protecting

Cutting-edge solutions designed for maximum customer benefit are central to the world market leader’s success. In the last year alone, two major innovations were introduced for the PROSIZE, including the CASCADE system, which lowers the sizing machine’s steam consumption by up to 7%. The Smart Size Box uses sensors and digital solutions to monitor the condition of wear components, making a valuable contribution to predictive maintenance. In addition, the size box ensures optimal sizing application, needs less size add-on - a saving of up to 10% can be achieved here - and the yarn is wound extremely gently onto the warp beams.

PROWARP with PROACTIVE Warping demonstrates how modern sensor technology and digital solutions transform quality into a real competitive edge. This cloud-based system ensures exceptionally high reproducibility of warping results, top-tier warp quality and unique benefits in the weaving process.

The innovative core of PRODYE is a specialised dyeing vat. Its optimised design allows for deeper indigo tones using fewer boxes and a reduced dye bath volume compared to conventional systems. An advanced circulation system and enclosed vat construction also reduce hydro and caustic soda consumption by up to 20%.

These are just some of the ways KARL MAYER is shaping the future of textile technology.

Solution for lower energy consumption proves itself in practice

Getzner Textil is one of KARL MAYER’s first customers to use PROSIZE with CASCADE. The innovative weaving specialist has tested the steam and condensation system by KARL MAYER and determined the energy savings it achieves. Karl-Heinz Vaaßen, Head of Textile Drying at KARL MAYER, assisted Getzner Textil’s production specialists both with the tests and with all questions relating to CASCADE. In a conversation with Werner Egger, Head of Weaving, and Thomas Rossi, Head of Warp Preparation at Getzner Textil, he learnt more about the system’s benefits for his customer.

Innovation and customer proximity – KARL MAYER’s clear focus makes an impression

ITMA ASIA in Singapore was a resounding success for KARL MAYER, exceeding all expectations. The company welcomed visitors from 39 countries and held around 570 expert discussions. Most guests came from India, followed by China, Indonesia and Pakistan. The exchange with them was both well-founded and targeted. Conversation topics ranged from investment projects and new technologies to opportunities for cooperation and business expansion.

Getzner Textil steams ahead with energy savings

Getzner Textil AG is always open to new ideas and committed to investment in innovative technological solutions. This has proven a highly successful approach for more than two hundred years now: founded in 1818 as a family business in Bludenz in the heart of Europe, the company is now one of the world’s leading manufacturers of fabrics for African fashion, shirts and blouses, corporate fashion, and technical textiles, with 1,550 employees, 710 weaving machines, seven locations, and an output of 73 million running meters per year.

Compact, powerful, cost-efficient – KARL MAYER launches its HKS 2-SE TWO

KARL MAYER is launching a new two-bar tricot machine for the elastic sector at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2025. This newcomer is called HKS 2-SE TWO, stands for double customer benefits, and offers even more advantages than the predecessor model. With this innovation, the leading textile machinery company is once again asserting its top position in the market.

KARL MAYER is launching two machines that set new standards in performance and cost-effectiveness

At this year's ITMA ASIA + CITME, KARL MAYER is exhibiting two advanced developments in the field of tricot machines. Both newcomers expand the portfolio with highly practical solutions for increased efficiency and cost-effective production – making the exhibition booth once again a focal point for more than just the warp knitting industry.

Groz-Beckert showcases textile innovation at ITMA Asia + CITME 2025 in Singapore

From October 28 to 31, 2025, the global textile industry will gather at ITMA Asia + CITME at the Singapore Expo, where Groz-Beckert will present its latest highlights and innovations across its six product areas – Knitting, Weaving, Nonwovens, Tufting, Sewing, and Spinning – at Hall 5, Booth B301.

Technical textiles for more and new business

KARL MAYER's composite machines and warp knitting machines with weft insertion produce technical textiles offering an impressive variety of properties and textures. The range of tasks these textiles can perform is as broad as the spectrum of their possible fields of application. Both newcomers with the right textile solution and already established players can trust their business will flourish, as demonstrated by the examples from KARL MAYER's Technical Textiles division at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2025. The exhibition at stand A 301 in Hall 5 of the Singapore EXPO focuses on two areas: filtration and construction.

KARL MAYER puts textiles centre stage

For KARL MAYER, textiles are much more than just materials – they express function, emotion and progress. And they are at the heart of its customers' activities. KARL MAYER is now focusing more than ever on its customers' needs and plans and therefore on the textiles made on its machines: WARP KNITS. At the upcoming ITMA ASIA + CITME, the company will demonstrate how textile solutions are providing new impetus in the categories of Fashion & Clothing and Technical Textiles.

Techtextil India 2025 commences: Ushering in a new era for functional textiles

Techtextil India 2025, a premier trade fair for technical textiles, non-wovens and composites, organised by Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India, has opened today at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, marking its 10th edition. Running from 19 – 21 November 2025, this landmark edition connects 215 exhibitors, including 100 first-time exhibitors to the textile value chain, featuring innovations across 12 application-based textile segments.