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Karl Mayer records successful participation at Techtextil

20 May '17

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Germany’s leading technical textile machinery company, Karl Mayer, successfully participated at the Techtextil 2017 expo, a leading technical textiles and nonwovens exhibition, from May 9 to 12, 2017, in Frankfurt, Germany. About 200 high-level conversations took place on the stand. Many visitors came from Germany, Turkey, Poland, and India.

Many existing clients came to discuss projects, customer trials, and machine purchases, and some sales contracts were even signed. The company also made some important new contacts.

Bastian Fritsch, Karl Mayer’s senior sales manager said, “Techtextil is a fantastic fair in terms of sales. Many new clients came to visit our stand, including manufacturers from other technology sectors and the clothing industry, who are looking for new end-uses in the field of semi-technical textiles, for example. Many of them already have some new ideas in mind, and are looking for partners to implement them. With our machines and know-how, we were able to help all of them.”

Any company focusing on future issues definitely found what they were looking for on Karl Mayer’s stand at Techtextil which, for example, was featuring an impressive presentation of a future building material, textile-reinforced concrete. This composite enables lightweight, narrow concrete components to be produced using tough, carbon-fibre grids. The weft- inserted, warp-knitted textiles for the reinforcement are produced on Karl Mayer’s machines. As an alternative to conventional steel reinforcements, which are liable to corrode, the warp-knitted structures are increasingly attracting the attention of the construction industry - and consequently the textile industry.

Many manufacturers expressed a specific interest to operate in this sector. In addition to the products catering for the construction industry of the future, there were many discussions on conventional, warp-knitted technical textiles, especially geotextiles, coating/backing substrates, interlinings, and reinforcing textiles for plastic composites. Other important topics were warp-knitted spacer textiles, nets, automotive textiles, and functional textiles for the sports, and athleisure sectors.

Karl Mayer’s machines and equipment for the technical textiles sector not only include warp knitting machines, but also warp preparation systems, particularly the OPT-O- MATIC manual sectional warping machine for use in the production of woven technical textiles, geogrids and coating/backing substrates, among others, the MULTITENS, a yarn tensioner that delivers flexibility and a reproducible quality and various creels. (GK)

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