KARL MAYER to participate in conference on machine-produced lace
For more than 150 years the Vogtland area has been an important centre for machine-produced embroidery. In addition woven and knitted goods have put their stamp on the frontier area of the three German Bundesländer Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. Machine lace in particular plays an important role in the industrial landscape of the region which has been shaped by textiles.
The importance of machine-produced lace for the development of the Vogtland area is acknowledged in terms of the German Innovation Centre for Embroidery and the Association for the Textile History of Vogtland in Plauen. The two institutions are drawing attention to the subject with exhibitions, workshops and, shortly, with a special conference on ‘Industrial Lace Production.’
The event will be entitled ‘Machine lace on the cusp of tradition and innovation.’ It will be held in Plauen on 27. October and European centres for embroidered, woven, machine bobbinet and raschel lace are invited to a dialogue.
Mayer launches path breaking spinning cum knitting technology
At the recently concluded Olympics of the Textile industry – ITMA 2011 in Spain, Germany’s Mayer & Cie, introduced a combined spinning-knitting machine – Spinit, which eliminates the need to spin the yarn on ring spindles as well as package it on cones.
For the first time since the first circular knitting machine was introduced, a large extent of the spinning process as well as the entire knitting process has been united in one single jersey machine. The combination allows the production of almost spiral free fabrics along with high savings potential, says Mayer & Cie.
Mayer & Cie, the world’s leading circular knitting machine builder by revenues was developing the Spinit at the company’s headquarters in Albstadt for a number of years. As per Mayer & Cie, 25 Spinit machines can produce the equivalent of 20,000 ring spinning spindles, 380 winding heads and 20 high speed circular knitting machines.
Spinit is made up of a roving, roving sensor, 3-roller drafting unit, spinning nozzle and circular knitting machine. Mass variation and foreign matter contamination is detected and eliminated during the running process.
Mayer adds that the machine mounted drafting unit has a maximum delivery speed of 250m/min and the maximum delivery speed of the drafting unit is 10 times faster than in ring spinning.
Flat Knitting Machine
Brand: Pai Lung Machinery Mill Co. Ltd
Model: PLF-KS132 Computerized Flat Knitting Machine
Specifications:
- Knitting Unit
- Gauge: 5G, 7G, 8G, 10G, 12G, 14G, 16G and Multi Gauge 3.5G, 5G, 6G, 7G
- Knitting Width: 52″ (132 cm)
- Carriage/System: Single Carriage-Double System
- Features
- Knitting Speed: Max 1.2 m/sec
- Racking System: Max 2 inch
- Sinker System: Movable
- Yarn Carrier
- Yarns Carriers: 2 x 8 (Total 16 Yarn Carriers)
- Trail: 4 Trails
- Yarn Feeding
- Side Tension: Adjustable 16 Units/side
- Top Tension: 16 Units
- Control Display: 12.1″ Back-lit LCD Touch Panel. 1024×768 high resolution
- Data Input: USB 2.0 or 10/100 BASE-TX for data input
- Power: Single-phase AC power 440V, 415V, 380V, 220V±10% , 2.0KV
