Circular knitting machine builder Terrot will show its two track S4F348 single jersey striper machine at the International African-Arabian Exhibition for Textile, Embroidery and Sewing Machinery & Accessories (ITCE), which is being held from 23-26 February at the Cairo International Fair Ground in Cairo, Egypt.

ITCE 2010, the largest trade event in the entire MENA region, is being held to serve the ever-growing emerging markets of the textile industries in the region. Since 1994 the show has become the meeting point for importers, manufactures and leading trade figures to get abreast of the latest technologies from around the world.

Terrot which will exhibit with its partner Setraco , will show a two track, 48 feed, 30 inch diameter S4F348 machine in gauge E22 with a speed of 28 rpm or 32 rpm with Terrot’s speed up function.

Machine features

Terrot says that the S4F348 combines the traditional attributes of functional safety and outstanding reliability with further improved Terrot striper technology. The benefit, it says, is maximum processing variety with nearly unlimited pattern and colour possibilities, especially for sensitive yarns, due to the combination of the Terrot Striper System with different kinds of structure techniques. By using its multi-colour technology, Terrot says it is possible to process up to 8 colours in a single length of fabric.

The company says that unsurpassed versatility includes the processing of even the most sensitive yarns. Besides the standard yarns such as cotton, the S4F348 can reliably process acetate, core spun yarns, Modal, polyester filament, polyamide and viscose. Yarn change is effected with one lay-in finger for every colour yarn. Each yarn lay-in finger is equipped with a combined clamping device as well as a cutting device which Terrot says guarantees very precise clamping and cutting of the yarns. The company adds that, unlike its competitors, with this striper technology its machines are able to process all yarn qualities, particularly for striped fabric in line with the current trends.

Economic production

The S4F348 has a redesigned cylinder and sinker cam curves which permit safer production at an increased speed factor of 840 (S4F348/6F348). The machine also encompasses an economic production feature in its computer controlled ‘Terrot-speed-up-function’, whereby the machine speed increases by 20% while knitting large sequences in a single, thereby increasing productivity flexibility and versatility.

In addition, Terrot says the machine’s 2-slot yarn carrier is perfectly guided and guarantees excellent Spandex and Mesh plating. It also says that the S4F348 is easy to handle and new pattern information can be created by transmitting the colour sequence by USB memory stick. Simple and quick adjustment of colour sequences can be carried out by inputting the data via the terminal keypad.

Application areas for the S4F348 are outerwear and sports and leisure wear and the following fabric structure and knitting techniques are possible:

Striper pattern/ colour change striper, plain single jersey, elastane plaiting single structures, 2-thread fleece, piqué and tuck structures.

“Perfect circular knitting technology combined with the finest Terrot knitted fabrics is the culmination of well developed machine engineering designed to sharpen the competitive edge of our international customer base,” says Uta Barthel, Terrot’s Marketing & Communication Manager.

“The Terrot brand stands for quality and top performance in the construction of electronically and mechanically controlled circular knitting machines around the world. Maximum efficiency and an outstanding cost-top performance ratio, combined with truly universal application and operating convenience: These are the objectives at the forefront of our machine design and development work,” adds Ms. Barthel.