Terrot to emphasize wide ranging applications at ITM2009

9 April 2009, Chemnitz - As a leading builder of circular knitting machines, Terrot will be amongst the exhibitors at the forthcoming ITM2009 or Tüyap Fair, which will be held from June 6-10, 2009 at the Convention and Congress Center, Beylikdüzü, Istanbul, Turkey. The company will emphasize the wide ranging applications of its circular knitting machines under a new exhibition concept.

“Our 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. The brand Terrot stands for quality and top performance in the construction of electronically and mechanically controlled circular knitting machines around the world”, the company says.

Maximum efficiency and outstanding cost/performance ratio, combined with truly universal application and operating convenience are the objectives at the forefront of Terrot’s machine design and development work.

Terrot says that ITM 2009 will be an outstanding vehicle for it to approach the market with its new exhibition concept, ‘Fair as a factor of success – Partners benefit from each other’. For the worldwide presentation of the Terrot brand and its innovative products, designers have given the company’s  fair concept a brand new look with the application areas of Terrot’s circular knitting machines coming more to the fore. According to Terrot, its international clients will therefore benefit from more customer proximity and suggestions for new ideas. Terrot invites you to visit its  booth 916 in Hall 9 where it says it will surprise with an insight in the range of applications as well as the versatility of fabrics knitted on its circular knitting machines.

Fashion day & night

Terrot says its clients are specialists in realising the ideas of the international designer world and the production of knitted fabrics and fashion clothing for different kind of target groups. The scope of finished goods exhaustive and includes, polo shirts, striped shirts, sweaters, tops, t-shirts, slipovers, pullovers, shirt jackets, waistcoats, leggings, trousers, skirts, dresses, evening dresses, tunics, fleece jackets and accessories. In addition the company also says that high quality, excellent fit, perfect fashioning and trendy designs are the success criteria of its clients in the beachwear market. Terrot says that cotton, polyester/ acrylic, polyester, polyamide and elastane are still the important components of outerwear and to produce premium fabrics out of these yarns it provides its customers with the right circular knitting machines.

Underwear and lingerie

Nothing is more close to our skin and influences more directly our body feeling like underwear and lingerie, Terrot says, and the product range extends from brassiere over bodies, briefs, shorts, pants, shirts up to sleep wear as well as wellness wear. The company says that perfectly fitting underwear which does not show under tight clothes, excellent fit, best processing and functionality for sports usage as well as fashionable designs, are the criteria for the success of its customers in the underwear and lingerie area.

Thanks to the low weight, good breathability and the air-conditioning effect spacer knits give, they can be used the underwear and lingerie area, especially in the production of bras and corsages. Terrot says, the processing of high-quality cotton and cotton blends, silk, viscose, modal fibres, polyester and polyamide yarns as well as elastane are essential conditions for the finest quality in underwear and lingerie fashion. To produce these materials with extraordinary wearer comfort, Terrot says it provides ideally suited circular knitting machines.

Home textiles

In home textile the range of circular knitted fabrics extends from mattress coverings to fitted sheets, bedding and pads to upholstery and furnishing fabrics. Initially discovered as a niche product, the knitted mattress tickings are now in high demand with Terrot’s customers. Covers of comfort mattresses consist of more or less voluminous elastic knitted fabrics. Innovative materials with improved features on the basis of polyester and polyamide combined with cotton and viscose are processed into double-face fabrics with wadding yarns on electronic jacquard circular knitting machines. Terrot says, in this respect there are almost no limits in the pattern variety of its machines.

Due to their special 3-dimensional structure, spacer knits offer widened application possibilities in the area of home textiles. Spacer knits distinguish themselves not only by their low weight but also by their breathability resistance to pressure. Spacer knits have further beneficial features such as sterilisability and can adopt a non-ageing effect by the use of new developed fibres and yarns. Terrot says that they are thereby vastly superior to the traditional foam laminating.

Circular knitted spacer knits are also used as a base material for mattresses and pillows large quantities of circular knitted fabrics are also knitted for bedclothes and fitted sheets. High-quality cotton and modal fibres with and without elastane are used in the production of single-jersey fabrics as well as interlock fabrics and in many homes these days patterned and plain-coloured upholstery and furnishing fabrics are used. Polyester, polyamide, acrylic, cotton, viscose and other materials are even enmeshed on special jacquard and plush machines which Terrot also has in its product range.

Sports and leisure wear

Differences between leisure wear and functional sportswear are nowadays hard to find whereby the demands for the materials are almost the same in both cases. Benefit from high-tech fabrics that are specially-tailored on the respective application thanks to an intelligent combination of new fibre qualities with different material structures. Clothing for sports and leisure time is a functional product par excellence. Ultramodern finished yarns especially polyester and polyamide as well as cotton, viscose and elastane and even fibre blends are important basics for sports fashion and leisurewear. Sports and leisurewear find usage in the form of shirts, sweats, overalls, tricots, jackets, trousers, functional underwear as well as shoes in the indoor and outdoor area. Manufacturers of innovative sports fashion and leisurewear offer clothes with special functions for nearly every activity for example humidity transmission, breathing capacity and thermo regulation for an almost perfect air conditioning of the body. Terrot says that high quality processing and sophisticated design guarantee the highest wearer comfort and are thus the success criteria of its customers. The Terrot brand provides suitable circular knitting machines for the production of premium fabrics in different fabric structures among others single-jersey, piqué, mesh, interlock, rib, jacquards as well as rib separation.

Beach textiles

Relaxing at the pool, enjoying cocktails at the sandbar, playing Beachball or surfing - when the sun is shining everybody is in good spirits and in the mood to swim. Polyester, polyamide and elastane are still important components of beach and swimwear as well as insets for the breast and panties zone. To produce premium fabrics from these yarns Terrot offers range of circular knitting machines and says that high-class fabrics, excellent fit, perfect fashioning and trendy designs are the success metrics of its clients in the beachwear market.

Medical textiles

A special application for technical textiles is the medical area. Beside the basic features of knitted textiles, such as high elasticity properties, the properties fibres and yarns used are of particular importance for medical textiles. These include antibacterial, dirt repellent and antistatic effects. To meet the different requirements of the medical area, yarn manufacturers optimise these fibre properties in the course of their innovations.

Multiple applications also arise in the surgical sector as well as in rehabilitation, orthopaedics, dermatology and incontinence. In particular the figure-flattering usage of the textile solutions increases comfort and leads to improved patient acceptance. The knit-ability of the latest fibres and yarns on Terrot circular knitting machines is the essential condition for the application of knitted goods in the medical area. Enmeshed with high quality cotton, inelastic materials like medical silver can also be knitted. Thanks to these textiles and their antibacterial, antiseptic and anti-allergic features the infectious symptoms of different kind of skin diseases can be removed to a large extent quickly. Terrot says, spacer fabrics knitted on circular knitting machines are superior in many cases to the features of textile composite materials for example by low weight, permanent elasticity, breathability and air-conditioning effect and they are also used in areas of health care and medical  technology.

Workwear

Combining the most modern finishing processes with innovative fibres, fabrics are developed which are used in technical areas. Due to various features, technical textiles have captured a firm place in industry and economy and of particular interest is their application in the transportation, architecture, medical and safety clothing sectors. Textiles with the best functional features have high value in the area of working clothes. Fabric innovations have entered these niches early and identified that the clothing is able to take over an important protective function, be it against heat, cold, flames, radiation or even chemicals. Fire department, police, military right up to the Formula One racing drivers all appreciate these qualities, Terrot says. Alongside the latest developments of synthetic fibres with special features, high-quality natural fibres play a strong part in the production of technical textiles.

Automotive 

An application area of technical textiles where circular knits play a part is in the automotive sector. Circular knitted fabric is used in the interior of cars for example as base material for door covering, seat covers, head rest, armrests, roof liner and different kind of pillars. The demands for these products rise in line with the latest safety standards, comfort, functionality, design and life span. In circular knitted fabrics for automotive use functional synthetic yarns are processed and these yarns assure thanks to their special qualities like resistance to light, abrasion-resistance and flame resistance that the quality and safety requirements are fulfilled in the vehicle interiors.

Stability toward environmental influences like light, temperature and humidity is important for the life span of these wear-resistant textiles. Many of the leading automobile manufacturers are supplied with high quality fabrics produced on Terrot machines, those which distinguish themselves by their design, good appearance and high usage comfort, the company says.