The textile machinery builder Karl Mayer has announced some of the new courses that will feature in the programme at the Karl Mayer Academy, which specialises in well targeted knowledge transfer.

This training centre is based at the company’s headquarters in Obertshausen and also has branches in India and China.

Karl Mayer Academy India

Karl Mayer’s own training centre in Surat was opened in June of last year with 51 trainees having already attended courses during the first eight months of this year. The new programme at the Academy includes a variety of courses.

The Basic Warp Knitting Course covers the basics of stitch formation, fabric construction and lapping technology, calculating yarn run-ins, and fabric analysis. The introductory course Lace Basics will familiarise trainees with the fundamentals and principal production possibilities of warp-knitted lace.

During the Operators’ Course, newcomers to warp knitting will learn how to call up the functions of tricot machines and what tools are needed to operate the machine. Analysis Basics course on fabric analysis covers standard tricot fabrics available on the market, together with an analysis of the patterns.

Karl Mayer Academy China

By August of this year, 132 specialists had attended courses at the Karl Mayer Academy China, coming from five Asian countries. Last year, 164 people completed courses at the Academy. The Karl Mayer Academy China offers all the warp knitting and raschel machine courses:

• Introduction to the basics of warp knitting
• Advanced course on warp knitting machines
• Advanced course on double-bar raschel machines
• Advanced course on multibar raschel machines
• Fabric analysis
• RSJ Special
• DJ/RDPJ Special

The most recent training course in the summer took place from 12- 16 August and covered the basics of warp knitting.

The participants judged the course to be a success. “The course will be of enormous help to me in my daily work,” commented one trainee from the Hyosung Group.

Karl Mayer Academy Germany

By the end of July, 218 participants from 19 countries had been trained by the instructors in Germany – a figure that is similar to last year’s. The wide variety of courses at the Karl Mayer Academy Germany include:

• Introduction to the basics of warp knitting
• Advanced course on tricot machines
• Advanced course on multibar raschel machines
• Advanced course on double-bar raschel machines
• Fabric analysis
• Training courses on direct warping machines for warp knitting
• Training courses on warping machines for weaving
• A variety of special training courses to meet specific requirements

The Karl Mayer Academy Germany is also responsible for training clients in the USA once a year. The instructor, Robert Kuna, flew to Greensboro, North Carolina to hold this year’s training course in America, which took place from 17-21 June.

Twenty participants on the course came from branded goods producers in the functional underwear and clothing sectors and from companies like The North Face, Gore & Associates and Pearl Izumi, as well as from the medical textiles and automotive sectors.

The training programme included an analysis of fabrics currently available, the production of lapping schemes, and the presentation of basic information on the characteristics, end-uses and possibilities available for producing and finishing the fabrics.

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