Karl Mayer reports that it received a huge rush of visitors from a range of countries at the ITMA ASIA + CITME textile and textile machinery trade fair that took place in Shanghai last week.

The company provided lively expert discussions, and presented  innovative machinery and attractive fabrics, such as sophisticated lace fabrics produced on Karl Mayer machines.

Customers from Asia

According to Karl Mayer a major feature of the event was the remarkably high degree of internationality of Karl Mayer visitors. “Despite the somewhat cautious Chinese market, compared to last year’s trade fair, our stand was overcrowded during all the exhibition days. And this is due to the considerable boost from the Near and Middle East, in particular from India and Turkey,” explained  Oliver Mathews, Karl Mayer’s Sales Vice President.

“These two countries are a strong driving force for the market, and we considerably benefit from this increasing demand for textile machines.”

Lace machines

A real eye-catcher during the trade fair was the completely redeveloped JL 65/1B Fashion as well as the all-over pattern with bourdon-cord made on this machine and intended for the fashion sector. When processing thick yarns this newcomer shifts the limits from 1,500 dtex to up to 3,250 dtex.

The second highlight for lace manufacturers, the MT 51/1/32, a highly productive Textronic Lace equipped with Jacquard bars, sets new standards in terms of its high capacity to manufacture a wide range of patterned lace bands and all-over fabrics, according to the company. During the trade fair the Multibar Textronic Lace in a gauge of E 24 produced trendy all-over lace articles for outerwear.

The clip strings - Karl Mayer’s innovative, flexible system of pattern guide fingers, was first showcased at ITMA ASIA + CITME.

In-house show

Several large groups of customers from Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Korea and Japan accepted a long journey to Karl Mayer‘s Chinese company in Changzhou in order to see another lace machine belonging to the Multibar Lace series that has recently been offered in a working width of 210".

During the exhibition this 210”-wide Multibar Lace produced up to four 50”-wide panels at the same time, for example for saris, reaching a speed of up to 800 min-1.

Tricot machines

Karl Mayer demonstrated how the formerly independent LIBA company has gradually been integrated into Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik since its acquisition in 2013. During the trade fair, a COPCENTRA 2K+E, in a working width of 174” and a gauge of E 32, was displayed from LIBA’s portfolio, manufacturing an elastic mesh structure for the apparel sector.

Karl Mayer also presented a new HKS 2-M belonging to the range of high-performance tricot machines. This newcomer represents a further increase in efficiency when it comes to the production of plain warp-knitted fabrics on two-bar high-performance tricot machines.

In addition to the machines, the visitors also had the chance to see the patterning possibilities of Karl Mayer’s EL control system on tricot machines. Main focus was on the advantages offered during designing compared to the use of pattern disks, main applications of the EL control system and patterning with 3D live simulations.

Jeans and glass fibre

The model of the indigo dye-sizing unit Indig-O-Matic, whose original has a length of more than 100m, attracted the attention of customers from the denim trade.

The Warp Preparation Business Unit presented a Ball Warper, a Long Chain Beamer and the DiscTens yarn tensioner for the manufacture of jeans fabrics.

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