Posted September 30, 2015
COLZATE, Italy and MUMBAI, India – Itema, the largest privately owned manufacturer of best-in-class weaving machines, spare parts and services, exhibited at Techtextil India last week at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre in Mumbai.
“Itema is the only manufacturer in the world to provide the top three shuttleless weft insertion technologies: rapier, airjet and projectile, and each of these technologies offer special and unique advantages for our customers weaving the widest range of technical textiles,” said Fulvio Carlo Toma, Group Sales & Marketing director, at the opening of the company’s booth at TechTextil India.
In the last two years, Itema registered a 60 percent growth in sales. Looking at the first semester of 2015, Itema sold 17 percent more weaving machines compared to same period last year, increasing the group turnover for weaving machines by 24 percent and the consolidated turnover, including spare parts and other company transactions, by 20 percent year over year.
Itema said it is experiencing an unprecedented growth also in India.
“Our company has already gained a strong foothold in influential weaving mills across the country with recent installations of both rapier and airjet versions of our advanced machines, and we are intent to continue doing so,” said Updeep Singh, managing director of Italy-based Itema in India.
The company derives a significant and growing portion of its revenues from the sale of specialized weaving machinery for the technical fabrics segment, specifically designed to offer just what is needed in what is one of the fastest growing sectors worldwide.
“If we look at India, technical fabrics’ use is already on the rise, both for the internal market but also for exports,” Toma said. “Used in applications as far-reaching as buildtech, packtech, agrotech, geotech, indutech, among others, the trend is technical, smart, high-tech. This is the future and the companies with foresight are choosing Itema. This trend will only increase, as will our resolute will to offer the right-for-application loom tailored to perfectly fit our customers’ weaving requirements.”
Best-selling loom
Itema’s best-seller, the R9500 is an unrivalled racehorse when it comes to weaving technical fabrics, Itema said. A sturdy, compact, flexible weaving machine, the R9500 features advanced, Itema-patented innovations, which make even the most sophisticated technical fabrics easy to weave.
The R9500 comes equipped with high-tech rapiers that ensure its versatility. Flexibility and reliability are guaranteed by the FPA-free positive approach – the weft transfer system developed by Itema’s R&D specifically for tech applications, with no guiding elements in the shed. With the FPA rapiers there are no limits for the tech weaver, making it possible to weave even the finest or high-tenacity yarn, multiple-pick insertion system. This, coupled with the new motorized weft cutter, ensures that the widest range of fancy, multifilament and monofilament yarns is successfully woven on Itema’s R9500. Moreover, the simplicity of the Itema rapiers provide for easy setting and a superior machine performance in terms of speed and efficiency.
TechTextil highlights
At TechTextil, Itema presented to the Indian market two new applications available on R9500: fiberglass and airbag OPW.
The R9500 fiberglass features an extremely sensitive whip roller created to further compensate the warp tension, as well as dedicated weft cutters and rapiers. In addition to fiberglass, the newly designed rotary spread bar also allows the weaving of mesh fabrics.
The second new application now available on the R9500 is Airbag OPW – a booming market segment due to new safety rules endorsed widely by governments around the world. The R9500 sturdy structure guarantees high speed and stability and the machine’s components have been further reinforced and optimized to weave the OPW heavy and sophisticated fabric, while quality and flexibility are ensured by the FPA rapiers.
In the textile market, if you say “technical fabrics” to a weaver, very easily the first thing that will come to mind is the projectile weft insertion technology. Itema is the only weaving manufacturer to provide this famous technology, through the redesigned P7300HP V8.
Building on the legendary legacy of Sulzer, and adding on countless technological advancements, Itema once again confirms that the projectile weaving machine is still the perfect choice in the market today to weave some of the most demanding technical fabrics. The P7300HP V8 features a unique weft insertion system and the widest width in the market (up to 655cm). The projectile P7300HP V8 is ideal to weave the widest range of technical fabrics, especially the heaviest yarns, always with outstanding quality, longest lifespan and unparalleled value.
Last but not least, the Itema airjet portfolio consists of three distinct, right-for-application A9500 airjet models from entry-level A9500e, up to and including the premium, top-of-the-line A9500p model featuring all the perks, such as patended iReed, the single relay nozzle, and ensures best-in-class performances when it comes to speed, efficiency and fabric quality.
What sets Itema airjet looms ahead of competition are features including the cam sley drive and optimized shed geometry that guarantee top flexibility to weave a wider range of fabrics.
Itema’s airjet machines, according to the company’s loyal technical fabrics customers, offer, by far, the best choices in the market to weave heavier styles – a benefit widely recognized and sought after by important companies and sophisticated weavers.
Itema airjet machines are already weaving successfully meditech fabrics, to name just an example, for technical textile companies in India.
Source: Itema
Itema shows best-seller, new applications at TechTextil India
