Lonati upgrades all sock-knitting machines

July 15, 2008 (Italy)

Lonati S.p.A, a leading world manufacturer of sock-knitting machines with an annual output of over 8,000 machines, has designed a fully revised range for 2008.

The classic G 5JA men’s sock knitting machine with a flipping dial, which has been marketed all over the world, with one hundred units ready for installation in North-American factories, is now flanked by the newly-designed FH with external automatic toe linking, which can be mounted on all existing models.

This version has greatly simplified sock pick-up and seaming operations, giving clear advantages in terms of production and cost saving. Different versions will be available in summer and 1000 machines will be produced in the first year.

All standard models have been upgraded – 5 and 6 colour single-feed, double feed, filet and 3D.

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Inkcups Now to distribute Mimaki’s Flatbed UV Inkjet Printer

July 15, 2008 (USA)


Inkcups Now Corporation (ICN) has become one of three US distributors for Mimaki Engineering Co LTD. The express purpose of the agreement is to sell and service Mimaki’s line of Flatbed UV Inkjet Printers to the US Promotional Products industry. This deal marks ICN expansion into Digital Printing world, creating new exciting possibilities for the decorators of 3-D products.

Several Mimaki printers UJF-605CII have already been installed in the Promotional Product marketplace, proving this UV inkjet to be a great alternative to pad or screen printing for multicolor, tight registration printing on flat and non-uniform items. Among possible applications is the decoration of golf balls, POP displays, membrane switches, name plates and more.

The high-end UJF-605CII Flatbed UV Inkjet prints in 8 colors; standard and flexible inks are available. High density white ink enables first and second surface printing over clear or transparent products like PET, PC, OPP, PVC, polyethylene, polycarbonate and acrylic.

Very small 6 picoliter droplets, variable dot size and high1200x2400 dpi resolution ensures smooth tonal images and crisp edges without the grainy pattern associated with other Flatbed UV inkjet printers.

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Textillery Weavers expands bamboo collection

July 12, 2008 (USA)
More and more customers are finding ways to incorporate eco-friendly products and designs into their lifestyles as well as their living spaces.

In response, Textillery continues to add new designs and colors to its popular collection of "green" throws crafted from sustainable bamboo yarns, including a new lilac color tone and pinstripe designs.

These new designs along with countless others will be on view July 17-23, 2008 during the Chicago Gift Show in the Diane Baker & Associate Showroom, no 13-417; July 28-August 1, 2008 during the Las Vegas Market at the World Market Center in Building C, Space C-0369 and August 16-21, 2008 during the New York International Gift Fair in the Accent on Design - Booth no 4121.

"Bamboo yarn is a wonderful and versatile medium to work with," explains Judith Rose, head designer, Textillery Weavers.

"It's light and strong, incredibly soft and able to take a variety of dye colors quite well. So it has provided the perfect resource to create a lovely collection of plush new designs in colors that certainly respond to design directions.

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Zwick Z050 to test high tensile strengths on high-performance fabrics

July 11, 2008 (Germany)
When engineers decided to wrap the Zénith arena in Strasbourg, France, in a record breaking 15 000 m2 of material, they had to be sure it was not going to break under the huge amount of tension required to hold it in place.

UK company P-D Interglas supplied the material for the job - ATEX, a woven glass-fiber fabric that is coated in silicone. To test the material, the company used a Zwick Z050 tensile testing machine.

Tests carried out on the material included tensile strength, creased tensile strength, weld strength and surface peel. The tensile strength test showed that a test strip of the material could withstand loads of up to 8 kN / 50 mm with the joins withstanding up to 7 kN / 50 mm, proving that the material was well within the specifications required by the architect.

The Zwick Z050 can test tensile strength up to 50kN (11,000 lbs), and can be used to test sensitive materials such as tissue paper as well as high-performance fabrics and composite laminates. It features Zwick's testXpert software, which is easy to use and modular in design. Intelligent assistants help the customer to set up or change test procedures and it is compatible with all commercially available PCs and laptops without the need for an additional connection card.

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Da Cheng flourishes amid stiff competition

July 11, 2008 (China)
Da Cheng Textile Machinery Co Ltd, located in Zhangjiagang city Jiangsu Province, is scaling new heights with flourishing export business in the present fiscal.

The company has been bagging bigger orders since quite some time now. The prestigious project of installation and commissioning of machines in Vietnam was completed successfully.

The company had supplied 14 full sets of recombing and worsted spinning machines to Banswara Syntex Ltd, from Rajasthan, a totally integrated textile company with facilities for spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing and garmenting.

In an exclusive interview with Fibre2fashion, Ms Liu, the Marketing Head of Da Cheng said, “Our high quality product range was highly praised by Indian experts and the President of Banswara Syntex Ltd.”

Thousands of textile machinery manufacturers are operating in China at present. Discussing about Da Cheng’s strengths in the textile machinery field, Ms Liu stressed, “We include advanced technology in our machinery. In comparison to similar kind machineries in China, we are way ahead. Our machines have the advantage of labour saving and material saving and have high working efficiency. What makes us different from other famous brands is our high performance price ratio.”

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Decrease costs to promote efficiency, Mr Qiu Jibao

July 07, 2008 (China)Workshop is the base of the manufacturer and the management of the workshop would directly affect the quality of product, costs, time of delivery, etc.

With the arrival of “Era of merger profit”, workshop management play more and more important role in the enterprise.

Recently, we went to CNC workshop, which won the title of National “Pioneer of worker” not long ago, and found the very eye-catching slogans such as “enhance management, decrease cost, increase efficiency” etc.

And workers were operating CNC machines strictly according to the normative operation, the production was in a very orderly state.

Workshop director Shi suqing told reporter: "We should not only scientifically arrange the production tasks based on the orders, but also should take care of equipment maintenance, ensuring product quality, reducing production costs, and supervising the workshop operation, etc.

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Commerce Minister expects FEIYUE to take a giant leap

July 07, 2008 (China)On July 3rd. At WenZhou City, China's Commerce Minister Chen DeMing hosted the conference about the trading situation of ZheJiang manufacturers.

Mr Lu JianHua, Assistant of Commerce Minister, and Mr ZhongShan, Vice governor of ZheJiang Province, also attended this meeting.

The representatives of others companies reported the current situations, what the challenges are, how to cope with them, and suggested the supports from government.

Mr. Qiu JiBao, President of FEIYUE Group, addressed and showed the confidence of overcoming difficulties. China's Commerce Minister Chen DeMing made comments on FEIYUE Group.

He acknowledged that FEIYUE Gourp is the herald of China's Sewing Machine Manufacturers, and have won the good international reputation.

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Induline from BOWE attracts a lot of attention at Texcare

July 03, 2008 (Germany)The industrial drycleaning machine "InduLine" by BÖWE Textile Cleaning, the apparently greatest innovation at the booth, attracted a lot of attention, amazement and many compliments.

The tiltable cage of this drycleaning machine for loading capacities up to 200kg attracted wide attention, just like the innovative modular design concept.

With the technologically leading PremiumLine drycleaning machines, the StarLine standard machines starting from 10kg and the InduLine with a loading capacity of up to 200kg, the machine manufacturer from Augsburg offered solutions for all potential users of drycleaning machines and thus presented themselves as the only "Full Liner" worldwide in the field of construction of drycleaning machines.

Considerably more German and international guests than initially expected had informed themselves at the BÖWE booth of the worldwide latest status of drycleaning machines.

The BÖWE employees of the headquarters in Augsburg, colleagues of the subsidiaries in the UK, Spain, USA and Shanghai, as well as sales partners from more than 25 countries were completely busy during each day of the exhibition, answering questions for the unique features of the BÖWE machines.

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Delegation visits Feiyue to assess patents & trademarks

July 03, 2008 (China)On the afternoon of June 27th, Mr.Zhang Zhigang, vice director of the Economic Commission of CPPCC, former vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce of China, senior vice president of National Economic Federation, president of Chairmen Group led an investigation delegation of "Industrial Property" to Feiyue.

The study was intended to discover the real situation about the establishment, protection utilization of industrial property rights (mainly patents, trademarks, trade secrets, etc.) of industrial enterprises of China, on the occasion of publication of "outlines of the state Intellectual Property Strategy".

Mr. Qiu Jibao, the president of Feiyue Group took the visiting delegation around the exhibition hall and assembling workshops of embroidery machines, domestic sewing machines and CNC center and then gave a briefing on the development of the enterprise and its industrial property strategy.

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CSMA: 'Feiyue is vanguard of sewing machinery industry'

July 02, 2008 (China)

On the morning of June 25, Mr.Tian Minyu, director of the China Sewing Machinery Association and vice director Mrs. He Ye arrived in Taizhou city for an investigation on the development of the industry of sewing machinery of China. Feiyue Group is their first stop.

After listening to the report made by Mr. Qiu Jibao, president of Feiyue Group on the subject of how Feiyue Group's dealing with the current macroeconomic problem through innovative measures, Tian Minyu said Feiyue as the vanguard of the sewing machinery industry of China had played an important role in promoting the prosperity and development of the industry.

Under the current difficult situation to the whole industry of China, performance of key enterprises including Feiyue Group would directly affect the confidence and future development of other companies in the same industry.

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Sewing & Embroidery Machinery (SEM) Expo 08 is online

July 02, 2008 (Global)
The Sewing & Embroidery Machinery (SEM) Expo’ 08 went online yesterday – July 1, 2008. We wonder where all the time goes. The last press note on the event updated about the preparatory status at fibre2fashion’s end for the expo; and today the online exhibition has already gone one day older after birth (launch).

Well, this is how it is. Our busy schedules sometimes bind us so tight that we ought to let slip such important events off our attention; those, which again are so vital to our business. The exhibitors haven’t missed to take advantage anyway. They’re there. Now it is time for the receivers i.e. the visitors to act. Visit today. Visit now.

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APEX Textiles buys WM Lawrence, a synthetic yarn processor

July 01, 2008 (UK)Apex Textiles has acquired Chorley based WM Lawrence & Sons. The manufacturer is the fourth textiles business to be acquired into the Apex group of companies, following the 2007 purchases of Carlisle based Stead McAlpin, Haslingden’s JH Birtwistle, and the 2008 purchase of Borders based Schofield Dyers & Finishers.

The acquisition will be made through its weaving subsidiary, JH Birtwistle and Company Limited. As a predominantly synthetic yarn processor specialising in twisting, warping and weaving, WM Lawrence brings an additional skill set to the Apex group.

Synergies between WM Lawrence and JH Birtwistle, a natural fibre weaver, were a key factor in the acquisition. Both companies use similar manufacturing capabilities and can dovetail their processes to widen their offerings to the market.

To maximise these complementary operating practices, WM Lawrence will be moving all its plant and machinery over time, from Chorley to JH Birtwistle’s premises in Haslingden.

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