TI & ITMA join together to promote research and education

Visitors to ITMA 2011 can look forward to knowledge sharing, cross-fertilisation of ideas and more collaborative interactions with some of the world’s leading textile researchers and educators.

A total of 46 institutions have applied to take part in the Research and Education (R&E) pavilion,
making this a key highlight at the 2011 ITMA exhibition, which will be held at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via venue in Barcelona, Spain, during September 22-29.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet experts at Textiles Intelligence, in Hall 3 on Stand C110. Members of the editorial team will be available for questions on trade and production trends in the global textile industry, and companies are invited to visit the stand to share information about new products and innovations.

CEMATEX will be awarding grants to all the participants in the Research and Education pavilion. And a total of 24 abstracts have been approved for presentation at the R&E Speakers Platform. The presentations on process technology and textiles and R&D will be held during September 23-25.

Among the participating institutions in the Speakers Platform are the Città Studi SpA; Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Sud Alsace; Ghent University, Department of Textiles; Institut für Textil- und Verfahrenstechnik Denkendorf (ITV-Denkendorf); the Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University (ITA); Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM; Cetex Institut für Textil- und Verarbeitungsmaschinen gemeinnützige GmbH; London College of Fashion; Instituto Tecnológico Textil (AITEX); Institut D'investigació Tèxtil I Cooperació Industrial de Terrassa-UPC; Shinshu University, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Japan.

ITMA is considered to be “the Olympics” of textile machinery exhibitions. It has a 60-year history of displaying the latest in machinery and software for every single work process involved in textile manufacturing. It is held every four years in Europe.

The European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers (CEMATEX) comprises national textile machinery associations from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It is the owner of ITMA and ITMA ASIA.

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Lakshmi Machine Q1 net profit rises 37%

Lakshmi Machine Works (LMW) Limited, a leading textile machinery manufacturer in India, has posted a 37 percent increase in net profit during the first quarter of current fiscal ended June 30. The company’s net profit rose to Rs. 411.4 million with a sound 50 percent increase in its total earnings to Rs. 5.02 billion.

Earnings from the textile machinery business, which accounts for 85 percent of the total revenues, increased to Rs. 4.38 billion, registering a year-on-year growth of 45 percent. Profit from this segment improved by 36 percent to Rs. 423.3 million, which was 89 percent of the total profit.

Operating Profit Margin (OPM) of the company was, however, under pressure and declined by 2.3 percent to 13.9 percent, mainly owing to hike in price of raw material.

Employee cost too declined by 1.8 percent during the quarter to 8.3 percent. While operating profit rose 27 percent to Rs. 708.8 million, it’s Profit Before Interest, Depreciation and Taxes (PBIDT) was up by 23 percent to Rs. 854.5 million.

Being a debt free company, LMW enjoys the benefit of paying nil interest cost.

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‘Solutions for Diversity’ - Shima Seiki returns to Barcelona

The 2011 edition of the International Exhibition of Textile Machinery once again presents an opportunity for Shima Seiki to demonstrate its leadership in flatbed knitting machine technology. With “Solutions for Diversity” as its exhibit theme, Shima Seiki returns this year to Barcelona with a lineup that emphasizes its diverse range of products while showcasing the familiar combination of uncompromising technology, quality and value that has traditionally set the Japanese machine builder apart from its competition.

With a lineup emphasizing innnovatioin and consisting mostly of first-time international exhibits, new models, gauges and prototypes, Shima Seiki’s exhibit should prove fully gratifying to those seeking to witness the leading edge of flat knitting technology, from customers looking for new business opportunities, to the press community in search of a scoop.

Among them are products first shown during Shanghaitex 2011 earlier this year in Shanghai, China, including the SSR112 computerized flat knitting machine with superior cost-performance ratio, the SCG122SN coarse gauge specialty machine equipped with Shima Seiki’s own SlideNeedle, and a quicker and more efficient version of the SIP fabric printing machine, as well as Shima Seiki’s latest all-in-one design system SDS-ONE APEX3. Several more new models for both WHOLEGARMENT knitting and shaped production are scheduled for first-time introduction at ITMA 2011. As a result, of the 13 machine models SHIMA SEIKI will be exhibiting, a substantial 11 models will be new exhibits.

ITMA Barcelona holds significance as a commemorative occasion for SHIMA SEIKI as well. Firstly, this will be the company’s 10th ITMA in which to participate. Founded in 1962, SHIMA SEIKI will also be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012. 2011 therefore marks its 50th year in business.

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AMS-224EN Series to increase sewing-pattern storage capacity

JUKI is launching the "AMS-224EN Series" with a dramatically-increased sewing-pattern storage capacity on the main body of the sewing machine. This machine is a new model of the AMS-224E Series. The new model inherits the established productivity, energy conservation and seam quality of the predecessor model.

The computer-controlled machine automatically performs sewing of patterns stored in its memory. The new model has the largest sewing area among the computer-controlled cycle machine AMS Series. It comes in two different types; one provided with a sewing area of "450 mm (W) x 300 mm (L)" and the other provided with a sewing area of "600 mm (W) x 300 mm (L)". The machine is used for attaching handles to bags, for sewing shape tacking of sports shoes, air bags and for sewing two or more pieces of small articles, such as sewing purses, at the same time.

The machine is provided as standard with a large-sized color LCD operation panel. It supports 14 different languages as standard. Sewing data such as the sewing shape, needle thread tension, enlargement/reduction, sewing speed and the number of stitches can be entered through the panel and stored in memory.

As compared with the predecessor model, the number of pieces of sewing data (the number of stitches) to be stored in the main body of the new "AMS-224EN Series" has been significantly increased from 20,000 stitches to 500,000 stitches, and the number of sewing patterns has been increased from 200 patterns to 999 patterns. This promises easy storage and calling of data, thereby improving operability. In addition, not only CompactFlash cards, but also USB thumb drives and USB card readers are applicable as sewing pattern storage media.

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