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Subscribe click on the button below and we'll get back to you asap If you are a knitwear or knitted fabric manufacturer looking to source the latest knitting technology or a designer or retailer searching for inspiration in the field of knitted textiles Knitting Trade Journal is the ideal resource for you All this from MCL News & Media – the fastest growing international textile publisher – which offers a unique insight into how today’s industry will look tomorrow Karl Mayer Group plans to exit the flat knitting sector leaving German plant with uncertain future Knitwear, Technical Textiles Stoll launches new Skateboarding collection Stoll to display its latest collection at Milan Design Week Stoll presents latest innovations in Bangladesh government and business community of Shandong Province visit Karl Mayer Group headquarters in Obertshausen Knitted Outerwear, Technical Textiles Karl Mayer welcomes Chinese business delegation Chinese delegation visits industry leader in Germany Industrial, Transport/Aerospace, Sports/Outdoor, Sustainable, Clothing/Footwear As the company continues to celebrate its 80th anniversary and anticipates annual sales hitting the €500 million mark for 2017 Karl Mayer organised a series of open house events at its headquarters in Obertshausen Demonstrations of nine of the latest machines from the company’s three business units – Warp Knitting Technical Textiles and Warp Preparation – were held in the impressive 9,000-square-metre development centre at Obertshausen along with tours of the €14 million new machine assembly hall which has been entirely refurbished at a cost of €8.5 million “During the last two years Karl Mayer has invested approximately €40 million at various worldwide locations,” said CEO Arno Gärtner “These in-house shows provide our business partners with an insight into the future of textile development and production technology we are showing our next innovation steps – responding to the challenges of digitization and the conservation of resources.” Among the machines demonstrated was the latest HKS 3-M high-speed tricot machine fitted with the LEO (low energy option) technology for reducing energy consumption Its Kamcos 2 automation control unit is compatible with smartphones and tablets for remote operation and diagnostics and a camera fault-detection system is now installed as standard With an impressive level of flexibility the HKS 3-M is suitable for the production of fabrics for both sportswear and shoes in addition to textiles for automotive interiors the E 28 gauge machine was producing a two-way-stretch fabric with a mesh-patterned background An MJ 52/1 S lace raschel machine was meanwhile producing a complex aimed at a structure well suited to the current trend for ‘athleisure’ that can include logos and lettering The company’s Rascheltronic unit produces both stretch and non-stretch fabrics for the sports and functional underwear The jacquard-patterned fabrics are characterised by a virtually unlimited range of designs equipping the machine with an electronic guide bar control facility enables the lapping to be changed quickly long repeats to be worked for semi-made-up fabrics Areas with a shaping effect can also be worked in easily and incorporated during production The non-stretch sportswear fabric being produced featured a sophisticated combination of patterns with a two-coloured pixel effect open mesh areas and zones with increasing opening sizes to create three-dimensional surface effects high-speed machine for producing spacer textiles for different applications car seats and increasingly clothing as well – to name just a few The patented EN pattern drive allows a wide variety of different patterns to be created The fabric being produced had an attractive zigzag pattern and an extremely soft handle This double-bar raschel machine is also available in a gauge of E 28 The Wefttronic II HKS is a high-speed tricot machine with weft insertion in line with the stitches for producing mainly semi-technical textiles warp-knitted textiles are used primarily as interlinings in outerwear A recent trend in the automotive sector is to use warp-knitted textiles as screens for panoramic roofs and other recent developments are apparel fabrics with decorative ‘tree-bark’ looks The field of reinforcement fabrics for composites is a specialised market for Karl Mayer and is represented by the UD 700 fibre spreading unit and the Cop Max 4 multiaxial knitting machine at the Obertshausen development centre The UD 700 fibre spreading unit can be used to process expensive carbon The starting materials are usually heavy tows – filament yarns having up to 60,000 individual filaments These are spread in the UD 700 and their tension and orientation are equalised which enables the potential of the raw materials to be exploited fully in the subsequent end-uses Karl Mayer can supply for producing technical textiles The sheer size of the Cop Max 4 attracted a great deal of attention at the technology show in Obertshausen It has a working width of 2.5 metres and is 35 metres long primarily for producing multiaxial textiles for reinforcing fibre composites The multiaxial reinforcing textiles for wind turbines are made primarily from glass fibres and on the Cop Max 4 the starting material is inserted using two special devices laying the yarns or tapes at angles of 80 degrees A further section of the development centre is devoted to the machines of the Warp Preparation business unit and includes the Prodye-S dyeing machine for the denim market a Prosize sizing system and a Multi-Matic warp preparation unit Jeans are the perennial evergreens of the clothing sector and with Karl Mayer’s Prodye-S machine productivity can be doubled when processing lightweight denim compared to other systems available on the market The bath volume can also be reduced by 25% and water consumption and the number of yarn rejects also reduced A second model gave a clearer view of the design of the dyeing unit The application system has a particularly long immersion zone of 11.2 metres to guarantee extremely uniform dyeing results This business has been riding on the crest of a wave for the past 18 months according to head of the Warp Preparation business Dieter Gager The new assembly hall at Obertshausen now houses five lines two of them dedicated to raschel and lace machines two to series warp knitting lines and the fifth for specialised The output from the hall is around seven machines per day equating to 2,500 a year put together by 200 specialist assemblers “The organisation of the plant allows us to respond even more quickly to market demands and the peaks that are typically experienced,” explained vice-president of sales for Karl Mayer’s Warp Knitting business unit Oliver Mathews “There’s high automation throughout and it is all based around an internal logistics transportation train which has almost eliminated the use of fork-lift trucks and also means there are no parts stored within the hall.” Construction of the hall started in August 2016 and was completed in November 2016 Refurbishment of the Obertshausen production hall – where all crankshafts and other machine components are made – involved the installation of new manufacturing systems and the reorganisation of some 80 existing tooling machines without stopping production The result has been that the throughput for a standard crankcase Of the company’s three business units Warp Knitting has its base in Obertshausen Technical Textiles manufacturing sites are at German plants in Chemnitz and Naila and Weaving Preparation operations are in Italy and China has always set a premium on financial independence and economic sustainability and this is very evident at the Obertshausen plant www.karlmayer.com Obertshausen - The Karl Mayer Group is reporting a significant win in its fight against product piracy in China Subscribe The new assembly hall at KARL MAYER’s site in Obertshausen becomes operational The hall was set up on the basis of state-of-the-art assembly logistics at KARL MAYER’s headquarters in Obertshausen The building covers an area of 13,500 m² and the assembly capacity is 2,500 machines per annum On November 1 last the first machine bed arrived at the new assembly hall This was right on schedule – to the great delight of everyone involved “We have installed a state-of-the-art assembly line here with optimum cycle times from delivery of the parts and modules to dispatch,” explained Herbert Lohr who was pleased that the assembly operations could now begin According to the Head of KARL MAYER’s Warp Knitting Business Unit “optimum” means maximum efficiency for the best quality “With the next generation of assembly operations we are strengthening the competitiveness of the entire KARL MAYER Group,” adds Herbert Lohr The short processing cycles in particular ensure that the assembly processes run optimally and that the materials flow operates rationally the component groups are delivered according to the fishbone principle and consequently to the assembly stations next to the main flow of the process and a high degree of flexibility and coordination The individual workstations in turn are located next to a continuous rail system on which the machine is assembled step by step to form the final product Training courses attract global participants Sports/Activewear, Technical Textiles Karl Mayer achieves customer proximity despite social distancing and the traditional textile sector opens up many opportunities for product development Industrial, Transport/Aerospace, Sports/Outdoor The second workshop entitled Additive manufacturing for the textile industry will be held at Karl Mayer’s headquarters To explore these possibilities is the aim of the workshop The event took place for the first time in January 2018 The next workshop will take place the day before the start of the Techtextil trade show in Frankfurt the Textile Research Institute Thüringen-Vogtland (TITV) Nine speakers from research and practice will highlight the topic of additive manufacturing (AM) in particular The company ViscoTec Pumpen- und Dosiertechnik will give a lecture on viscous media of the future Heraeus Noblelight will present IR emitters and DFKI will provide a contribution on the subject of Additive manufacturing of modules and housings for electronic components on textile Pedex will also deliver a speech on materials for filaments for FFF-3D printing During the programme accompanying the event Karl Mayer will present the new premises of its Academy The company’s own qualification site will only move to the new rooms in April 2019 The visitors will also have the chance to gain first insights into the manufacturer’s Textile Makerspace An exhibition with offers from industry and research on additive manufacturing will round off this workshop www.karlmayer.com Karl Mayer launches new platform Karl Mayer partners with leading denim brands Obertshausen - Warp knitting machine builder Karl Mayer will launch a new Digital Production Management (DPM) from KM.ON at June’s ITM exhibition Described as a ‘game changer’ in warp knitting shop floor management DPM has been designed to use the Internet of Things (IoT) and ‘state-of-the-art’ analyses to create maximum transparency in production and provide production managers with production-specific key figures in real time Subscribe Group reduces its ecological footprint with largest photovoltaic system to date at headquarters New investors sought by flat knitting machine builder Stoll New head office building for Karl Mayer Group Obertshausen – Karl Mayer has responded to speculation in the local German press around organisational changes confirming to Knitting Trade Journal that discussions about the future of Stoll are currently only in an initial review phase but that it is mulling the divestment of the flat knitting machine builder in 2025 Subscribe Obertshausen - Warp knitting machine builder Karl Mayer has launched a new raschel machine for the production of highly elastic textiles the RE 4-1 elastomeric raschel is an expansion of the Obertshausen-based firm’s successful 'Elastomeric' series and supplements the established raschel technology as part of its two-product line strategy Subscribe KM.ON presents an innovative digital solution at Munich Fabric Start and Pitti Filati Knitwear, Knitted Outerwear KNIT-CORE poised to launch AW24 knitwear collection Louis adds seasoned knit programmer to technical team Warp knitting courses restart at Karl Mayer North America after the pandemic induced break Optimistic start to 2025 for Karl Mayer Academy Highly efficient innovations through the Karl Mayer Group’s Integrated Product Development project with IPEK – the Institute for Product Development at KIT Spinnova makes Time’s Best Inventions of 2022 list SPINEXPO Paris makes its Spring/Summer debut Intimate Apparel Premium elastic lace and unprecedented flexibility Intimissimi presents new Lace Bra Top with Lycra lace Digitisation of the Karl Mayer Academy worldwide Karl Mayer acquires YTC yarn tensioner technology Georg+Otto Friedrich was Karl Mayer's first warp knitting machine customer and is still a consistent advocate for quality and sustainability Lenzing opens Center of Excellence in Indonesia On show will be products with integrated electrical conductivity and shaping characteristics from the new Textile Makerspace platform Construction, Sports/Outdoor, Clothing/Footwear Karl Mayer is showcasing warp-knitted textiles at this year’s Techtextil 2019 that takes place in Frankfurt from 14-17 May an efficient textile solution for protecting buildings and a completely new generation of warp-knitted spacer textiles Karl Mayer is also inviting people to attend an in-house show at its headquarters in nearby Obertshausen The event will be premiering a new nonwovens machine for the visitors Karl Mayer has also grouped all its digital solutions under the KM.ON brand and will be showcasing this system on its stand at the Techtextil Textiles with an excellent performance and lower manufacturing costs can be produced by combining the possibilities of additive production with warp knitting technology Examples of this include warp knits functionalised by 3D printing and these are being presented at Techtextil Karl Mayer has grouped together all its activities relating to the use of new technologies and innovative products under the concept of Rapid Textile They form part of the Textile Makerspace system a platform that offers the space to try things out develop new products and think outside the box Electrically conductive textiles are a hot topic at the moment and can be produced in a variety of different ways The easiest method is to directly incorporate conductive yarns during fabric production on the machine Conductive warp-knitted textile from the Textile Circuit platform Conductive zones offering maximum flexibility in terms of geometry dimensions and location can be produced on Karl Mayer’s multibar raschel machines Examples include inductive charging stations and the remote control of robots and these are being demonstrated at Techtextil Double-bar raschel machines have become firmly established in the production of warp-knitted spacer textiles featuring a variety of designs A new model is now enabling completely new designs to be produced 3D design elements are worked on the upper and lower sides The designs can be shaped and positioned almost without any restrictions and can be combined with openwork designs This is opening up a new dimension in near-net-shaped production in particular Burglars frequently use chainsaws and drills during attempted break-ins but they can be stopped effectively by a new type of patented security panel with weft-inserted warp-knitted textiles in the core On contact with the cut-resistant textiles the rotating tools quickly release large amounts of fibres from the material These become entangled and the tool is stopped The security panels are also very light and can be applied very easily to e.g A model in the new Racop-NW series will be demonstrated at an in-house show in Obertshausen This nonwovens machine produces stitch-bonded nonwovens from feed webs “This process produces nonwovens having textile characteristics which is not the case when using chemical bonding agents,” the company explains much less energy is consumed compared to thermal processes the new Racop-NW model also offers an exceptional cost:benefit ratio be used in a variety of applications.” A Racop-NW will be producing a textile for the application area heating textiles at the in-house show Karl Mayer becomes meeting-point for the sector Karl Mayer’s smart shirt with integrated sensors is opening up new applications Technical Textiles Karl Mayer’s high-performance warp knits at Techtextil North American competence centre for warp knitted e-textiles Leading German textile machinery builder pays tribute to the people behind its success Techtextil founding exhibitors award for Karl Mayer The width range of the HKS 3-M is extended and production of the HKS 2 is finally stopped Knitted Outerwear, Household Karl Mayer continues development work on Jersey Evolution The Karl Mayer Academy is offering a new series of training courses on double-bar raschel knitting machines Intimate Apparel, Sports/Activewear, Household Stoll and Karl Mayer North American subsidiaries integrate Karl Mayer detects increasing demand in Vietnam Regina Brückner elected new chairperson of VDMA Textile machinery for a sustainable textiles industry Obertshausen - Karl Mayer has teamed up with IPEK – the Institute for Product Development at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on a new warp knitting research and development project In order to develop its pioneering solutions Karl Mayer says that it has always pursued a range of collaborative partnerships Subscribe Karl Mayer’s longstanding managing partner will retire from the company on 30th June 2013 and from the 1st July 2013 he will represent the Mayer family on the Supervisory Board Mayer will be replaced by Arno GÃ¤rtner who joined the Management Board of Karl Mayer Holding on 1st March 2013 Knitted Outerwear, Intimate Apparel, Sports/Activewear, Swimwear/Beachwear, Knitted Accessories, Household, Technical Textiles The Karl Mayer Academy moved into its modern training centre at its headquarters Knitwear, Knitted Outerwear, Sports/Activewear, Technical Textiles Karl Mayer explores industry trends at JEC Obertshausen - Warp knitting machine builder Karl Mayer has been demonstrating the flexibility of its latest raschel knitting technology Subscribe Obertshausen - Warp knitting machine builder Karl Mayer has launched a new version its five-bar tricot machine which is said to be ideal for the production of fabrics for the shoe Subscribe Knitwear, Knitted Outerwear, Technical Textiles In view of ever shorter innovation cycles in the textiles and clothing industries machinery manufacturer Karl Mayer says it finds that four years is quite a long time between the ITMA exhibitions in Europe the leading trade fair for international textile machinery builders This is the reason why the company decided to present its latest machine innovations halfway between ITMA 2011 in Barcelona and ITMA 2015 in Milan at an Open House exhibition at its German headquarters a few weeks ago New Stoll solutions debut at in-house China show Intimate Apparel, Sports/Activewear, Household, Technical Textiles Obertshausen - Warp knitting machine builder Karl Mayer says that a high demand for its latest Lace.Express raschel technology has led to the development of a new model for lace production for outerwear Subscribe Knitted Outerwear, Sports/Activewear, Household, Technical Textiles Knitwear, Knitted Accessories For KARL MAYER, the new year began with a high-level visit by the Indian Textiles Minister, Dr. K.S. Rao, and his team on January 9. He took advantage of his visit to Heimtextil in Frankfurt to make a short trip to nearby Obertshausen for visiting the KARL MAYER plant there the Head of Sales of the Warp Knitting Business Unit Impressed by the modern production processes at KARL MAYER Rao said that the machines were of the highest technical calibre and the company’s innovative products were extremely important for the development of the Indian textile industry Expressing his interest in the possibilities of encouraging traditional medium-sized he said this traditional approach really motivated KARL MAYER to become very active in India As part of its strategy of manufacturing close to its markets KARL MAYER has been running its own service subsidiary in Mumbai since 2009 The service operations are being expanded on a regular basis On the occasion Gärtner explained that India has been an important sales region for the warp preparation machines produced at Obertshausen for some time demand for new warp knitting machines manufactured by KARL MAYER has increased considerably The Managing Director went on to say that this development has made India an important growth market for the textile machinery manufacturing company This positive development has also encouraged it to consider setting up its own production centre in India Preliminary work on the project is currently underway As an important contribution to the continuing process of modernisation in the Indian textile sector KARL MAYER’s discussion partners expresed happiness over the offer of special incentives such as the Technology Upgrading Fund Scheme put in place by the Indian Textile Ministry KARL MAYER – LIBA integration in progress KARL MAYER has acquired majority ownership of LIBAMaschinenfabrikGmbH Integration of the two worldwide leading companies in areas of development manufacturing and delivery of warp knitting and technical textile machinery has been implemented according to plan As a member of the KARL MAYER Group from now on LIBAMaschinenfabrik will be incorporated under the name KARL MAYER LIBATextilmaschinenfabrik GmbH the processes that started at the end of last year to work out “Best of Both Worlds” solutions for products processes and concepts are progressing well In the meantime the business of both parties in terms of products and market approach will be unchanged All important tasks will be completed as before Following completion of the “Best of Both Worlds” projects full integration of LIBA into the KARL MAYER business unit structure will start This should be finalized at the end of 2015 Customers will then benefit from a strong partner with a unified approach and optimized products and solutions Josefin Eder (Müllrose) hat beim Weltcup in Baku (2.-11 Mai) ihre starke Leistung aus dem ersten Sportpistolen-Wettkampf bestätigt und erneut Bronze gewonnen Damit verwies Eder Team-Kollegin und Weltmeisterin Doreen Vennekamp auf Platz vier Ebenfalls zum zweiten Mal im Finale steht Schnellfeuerpistolenschütze Florian Peter (Obertshausen) Da beim Weltcup in Granada nur die Druckluft-Disziplinen geschossen wurde werden in Baku die Kleinkaliber-Disziplinen doppelt ausgetragen: Gut für Eder die gleich zweimal zuschlug und ihrem erstmaligen Gewinn einer Einzel-Weltcupmedaille gleich eine zweite folgen ließ Am Ende hatte sie 31 Treffer und musste sich nur dem koreanischen Duo Yang und Kim geschlagen geben Letztere stellte mit 42 Treffern einen neuen Weltrekord auf Vennekamp begann perfekt mit zehn Treffern in zwei Serien Nach einem guten Start habe ich dann leider das Niveau nicht halten können wieder in doppelter deutscher Besetzung im Finale zu stehen und freue mich dass Josi ihre Leistung bestätigen konnte.“ Im Bereich Schnellfeuerpistole erwies sich Florian Peter einmal mehr als „Bank“: Der 24-Jährige schoss sich mit 588 Ringen als Dritter in das Finale einem Koreaner und einem Tschechen zu tun bekommt Fast wäre auch Christian Reitz ein Gegner gewesen doch der Regensburger verpasste mit 585 Ringen das Finale um exakt einen Ring Lange Zeit lag Oliver Geis (583) auf Finalkurs doch ein völlig verpatzter letzter 4-Sekunden-Durchgang mit zwei Neunern und drei Achtern versaute ihm das zweite Finale in Serie Im Mixed-Wettbewerb der Skeeter spielten die zwei deutschen Duos bei der Vergabe um die Medaillen keine Rolle: Valentina Umhöfer & Tilo Schreier landeten mit 135 Treffern auf Platz 17 Eva-Tamara Reichert & Sven Korte kamen mit dem gleichen Ergebnis drei Plätze dahinter ins Ziel Pistole: Philipp Grimm (Freiberg am Neckar)