Karl Mayer has confirmed that it will launch its Seamless Smart double needle bar machine for seamless hosiery and garments at the Yiwu hosiery machinery exhibition to be held at the Yiwu China Commodity City Meihu Exhibition Centre, Zhejiang Province,  PR China in November.

A spokesperson for the company told KnittingIndustry.com that its Japanese subsidiary Nippon Mayer will exhibit a DJ 4/2 Seamless Smart at an in house show on 15 October and then at Yiwu from 18-22 November.

The new narrow width Seamless Smart DJ series has been designed to be sub-divided into different models. The first machine in this series, the DJ 4/2 is a double-needle bar raschel machine available in a working width of 42 inches. According to Karl Mayer, the machine can operate at a rate of 1,000 stitches per minute, and comes equipped with all of Karl Mayer’s tried and tested technology. This includes, two ground guide and two jacquard bars, each arranged in two shog lines, so that it can offer all the patterning possibilities of six shog lines. The machine also has a jacquard mechanism, the successful piezo technology for controlling the jacquard needles, Kamcos with Multispeed system and electronic beam drives.

Karl Mayer says that new machine offers reliable performance for a relatively low cost and carries the quality seal that is a feature of all the machines manufactured by the Karl Mayer Group. The company also emphasizes that the compact DJ 4/2 does not require a large workforce to supervise and maintain it, which makes it an interesting proposition for companies new to the hosiery sector.

As the first UFI approved knitting and braiding exhibition in China, the 9th China (Yiwu) International Exhibition on Hosiery, Knitting, Dyeing & Finishing Machinery will be staged again this year in parallel with the 2nd China (Yiwu) International Exhibition on Narrow Fabric, Braiding & Garment Machinery and the 2nd China (Yiwu) International Exhibition on Knitting Yarns.