8 June 2009, Brescia - Santoni is to emphasize the vital importance it
attaches to China and Asia by presenting some of its most ultra-modern new
models in both circular seamless and large diameter machines at Shanghaitex
which kicks off this Friday, 12 June.
As the world has seen in the last decade or so, China has
become the so-called ‘factory of the world’. Santoni is convinced that it will witness
in the coming years, China
becoming one of the top and most important consumers in the world. With this belief
in mind, Santoni is putting extra special effort into the 25th Anniversary of
Shanghaitex by presenting at its booth, carefully studied models of its latest
Research & Development innovations from both its circular seamless and large
diameter divisions.
Santoni is convinced that the two most important Chinese textile
machinery exhibitions, Shanghaitex and ITMA ASIA + CITME, both held in Shanghai
in different years, are absolute ‘musts’ for leading textile machine builders. Santoni believes that, being held in a world
city, that is placed in a key position both in Asia and the Pacific Ocean,
these two shows offer a window not only to the immense and incredibly important
Chinese market, but also to the rest of the all important Asian markets as well
as to some equally vital emerging markets of Latin America from across the South
Pacific.
SM9-MF and SM9-MFS - high
production double jersey seamless
In seamless innovations, Santoni will show
for the first time in China, its new SM9- MF and SM9-MFS, a junior variant of
the SM9 MF. Santoni says that this double
jersey machine is the perfect answer for producing seamless body-size wear with
the highest productivity. The machines are also available in ultra-fine gauges in
the classical and ever required true rib stripers, jacquards, links-links, and
eyelet fabrics and with rib border or welt and yarn separation.
Santoni says that the high production, versatile
configuration and fineness up to 20 gauge makes this 12 feed machine the latest
and most convenient producer for all those classical garments of under and outerwear
to be made in volume and high quality at competitive costs, the company adds.
New high production
SM8-TR1 with adjacent stitch transfer
Also for the first time in Asia,
Santoni will show its new SM8 -TR1. This single jersey machine is again a model
designed to offer the knitter very high production, versatility and very
competitive performance costs for seamless wear tending towards the outer and
sportswear market. Besides high quality yarn plating, this machine is based on
the Santoni patented system of adjacent needle to needle stitch transfer. Moreover, the fine 24 gauge version which will
be shown at Shanghaitex, also produces the essential eyelet fabric formation, so
important for breathable athletic and hygienic comfort effects as well as the
shaping effects by means of needle exclusions so important in outerwear and
sports garments. The 8 feed machine is
the latest and most convenient producer for those sport and outerwear garments
to be made in volume, in quality and in variety at competitive costs.
Vignoni Atlas - ultra-fine gauge large diameter
In the large diameter Vignoni division, Santoni will
première two new developments for China. The first new development in
this area is the Atlas single jersey open width or tubular machine for ultra
fine fabrics in 50, 54 and 62 gauge. Faithful to its speciality of producing quality
fabrics at high production rates, this new model called Atlas, has been designed
to knit without sinkers. Instead, a new
patented Santoni ‘comb’ system does the work of the sinkers without the
negative side effects that can often disturb the fabric formation at these
ultra fine gauges. The new comb also makes the take down effect less
determining.
Iris - new single
jersey striper
The second large diameter development which Santoni will show
is the Iris single jersey striper, in tubular format. Inspired by the versatile
technologies of the Santoni range of different knitting machines, this is a new
way to conceive and build a large diameter striper machine unique in its kind. The
machine is expected to give to the knitter higher productivity, more
versatility, extreme ease in cylinder and gauge changing and the use of a
greater range of yarns by adopting full electronic management of the stripers
in which the respective yarn fingers can be exchanged in any position in the
cylinder independently of each other, as the control of each striper is
individual.
New 3D software for
Mecmor
For garment length fine gauge circular knitwear, there is new
software for Mecmor. With the rising
demand of finer gauges and the claimed sequential productivity advantages of
circular over flat, Santoni will show its Mecmor open width garment length circular
knitwear machine with new software for three-dimensional stitch simulation, thereby
reducing dramatically the times for sampling
or evaluating new products.
Santoni says that the software is very similar to that used
on the leading flat bed machines so that knitters used to the flat bed software
will find synergies when moving to Santoni’s well known Mecmor open width
garment length machine.
Chinese built Santoni
machines
Also on Santoni’s booth will be some of the seamless and large
diameter machines which are produced in the Santoni China factory in Shanghai. These
machines, while maintaining the company’s strict European quality standards and
inventiveness of the parent company, have the important feature of being very
competitive and lower cost.
Production of Santoni’s seamless machines started several
years ago in China,
and the company has had very encouraging success in both volume and in
maintaining its leadership in the Chinese market. The newer large diameter
model called Panda, has just come out this year in its first series and the
company says that it is beginning to be ordered in China,
Asia, and other emerging markets.
Lonati range on show
Sharing a booth at Shanghaitex will be the whole textile machinery
Lonati-Santoni group. Lonati, world leader
in its field and already a huge supplier of the highest performance hosiery and
socks machines to China for some decades, will exhibit a whole collection of
some of its finest hosiery and socks machines as well as some models in the
important and growing medical hosiery market.
Finally, with the rising automation of China’s textile
and clothing factories, Santoni will show one of the latest developments in the
field of hosiery make-up and post knitting equipment with its new Line closer
360 and Toe closer that combines simplicity and efficiency for very attractive
economic performance.
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