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Picanol Realizes Production Milestone With 100,000th Rapier Weaving Machine

Picanol Realizes Production Milestone With 100,000th Rapier Weaving Machine

Weaving
Picanol realized another impressive milestone when its 100,000th rapier weaving machine rolled off the production line at its plant in Ieper, Belgium. Picanol is also celebrating 45 years of manufacturing rapier weaving machines in 2020. Once again, this reaffirms the leading role Picanol plays in the rapier weaving machine segment worldwide. The 100,000th rapier weaving machine (an OptiMax-i) will be shipped to the company SAITEX Fabrics, which is based in Long Tho, Vietnam. Production center of high-tech rapier machines, Picanol Picanol has an extensive track record in the production of high-tech rapier machines. In 1975, it launched its very first weaving machine with a rapier insertion, which was named the PGW. Since the launch of the first rapier machine all that time ago, P...
Groz-Beckert Demonstrates Its Innovative Strength at Techtextil and Texprocess Fair

Groz-Beckert Demonstrates Its Innovative Strength at Techtextil and Texprocess Fair

Knitting, Weaving
Research, development, production, planning and consulting – experts from all sectors will come together at the Techtextil and Texprocess Fair, from 14 to 17 May 2019. With a special focus on the trend theme "Urban Living – City of the Future", the two leading trade fairs for technical textiles and nonwovens present a glimpse into the future of the industry. Also present at the Fair: Groz-Beckert – the world's leading supplier of industrial machine needles will exhibit its comprehensive product and service portfolio in the Knitting, Weaving, Felting, Carding and Sewing product areas in Hall 3.0, Booth F03. In the area of Knitting, Groz-Beckert is exhibiting its portfolio for the product areas of circular knit, legwear, knitwear and flat knitwear. The focus is on system solutions – p
Itema Exhibits Best-in-Class Weaving Innovations at DTG Dhaka

Itema Exhibits Best-in-Class Weaving Innovations at DTG Dhaka

Weaving
 Itema, the leading Italian manufacturer of best-in-class weaving machines, spare parts and integrated services, is exhibiting at DTG Dhaka (Hall 7 / 510) from January 9th – 12th at BICC. The Italian based Company will showcase its absolute worldwide best-seller, the Itema rapier machine R9500. The R9500 on show, courtesy of the Itema Customer Well Group based in Chittagong, will exhibit a shirting fabric which represents one of the most produced in the Bangladeshi weaving mills. The Itema target is to demonstrate to the industry the textile superiority, the real production performances and the excellent efficiency of the R9500 when it comes to weaving the widest range of fabrics, including shirting, apparel, bed sheeting. DTG is for Itema the perfect stage to allow the Bangladeshi
Groz-Beckert Welcomes Over 4,000 Visitors to ITMA Asia

Groz-Beckert Welcomes Over 4,000 Visitors to ITMA Asia

Fairs, Knitting, Nonwoven, Weaving
The sixth ITMA Asia + CITME in Shanghai, China, was extremely successful for Groz-Beckert. Over the five days of the trade fair in October 2018, the company welcomed over 4,000 international customers and partners to its booth. Around three quarters of the customers at the Groz-Beckert booth came from China, followed by guests from Japan, India and South Korea. With its 1,733 exhibitors from 28 countries, the trade fair attracted more than 100,000 visitors in total. Groz-Beckert was represented with all six product areas – Knitting, Weaving, Felting, Tufting, Carding and Sewing – and presented new transparent insights. The still relatively recent WeChat Channel also put the company in the spotlight. Visitors had the opportunity to become a follower directly at the booth and to recei
Denim Goes Greener Through The Whole Chain

Denim Goes Greener Through The Whole Chain

Weaving
Prosperity Textile acting as a pioneer and choosing the first sustainable innovation in the weaving industry: the brand-new iSAVER™ by Itema Guangzhou, China and Colzate, Italy – A new important partnership marks the path of Itema towards a greener future for the whole denim production chain. Prosperity Textile, one of the main denim producers worldwide, has chosen for its new facility one of the most interesting and sustainable-oriented Itema technologies, iSAVER™ equipped on the Itema R95002denim. Prosperity Textiles is, in fact, one of the early adopters of this new technology chosen for the new plant that the world-famous indigo fabrics producer will open in Vietnam, and that will be exclusively equipped with the latest Itema weaving machine. Itema demonstrating once again its gr
Groz-Beckert to look back at highly successful ITM 2018 trade fair in Istanbul

Groz-Beckert to look back at highly successful ITM 2018 trade fair in Istanbul

Knitting, Nonwoven, Weaving
Albstadt, Germany/Istanbul, Turkey: From 14 to 17 April 2018 the Textile Machinery Exhibition (ITM) in Istanbul, Turkey, attracted visitors from all over the world. During the four exhibition days Groz-Beckert was delighted to welcome more than 2,000 visitors at their booth, showcasing the products and services of their product areas Knitting, Weaving, Nonwovens and Carding.  With a share of 89 percent, most of the visitors to the Groz-Beckert booth were from Turkey. The second largest group was from Uzbekistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran placed third.  The product area Knitting put the emphasis on the interaction of needles and system parts. Transparent knitting and warp knitting machines gave visitors unique insights into the interplay of all components. The "CircularKnit" exh
Itema : Three Weaving Technologies

Itema : Three Weaving Technologies

Weaving
  The rapier R9500 is the shining star of ITM 2018  Itema is uniquely positioned to offer technical textile manufacturers the top three weft insertion technologies Rapier, Airjet and Projectile, in what is the most comprehensive portfolio on the market today for technical applications to weave the widest range of fabrics. The rapier R9500 loom is by far the most successful rapier loom in recent history. The continuous roll-out of customized special versions tailored for technical applications; including OPW Airbag, Fiber Glass, Bolting Cloth, among others, the wide weaving width up to 540 cm; as well as new and advanced devices make the R9500 by Itema the perfect machine for the manufacture of the full range of technical textiles; including ones with the finest monofilament y