ITMA 2015 Review – Part 5
SHOW REWIND: Something old, something new
Visitors from around the world stopped by Demsan’s booth to see its newly designed double-folding and double/double-folding/rolling machines, in particular, said a company representative.
The new designs, oriented to achieve the exit of fabric in three different forms through one inlet, gained great appreciation of the visitors, the spokesperson said.
Other machines for single-folding, double-folding, inspection, packaging and double/double folding applications, along with plaiting machines, also drew intense attention of the visitors, the rep added.
Demsan welcomes visitors from around the world
Thies reports impressive results
Under the theme, “Passion for Innovation,” Thies GmbH & Co. KG exhibited its latest advances in textile finishing technology at ITMA 2015.
The results? Impressive, according to Ronald Schrell, president of Thies Corp., the company’s U.S. Rock Hill, S.C.-based subsidiary.
“Like many other exhibitors we can say this was one of the best ITMAs we experienced,” he said. “We saw mostly high-level technical people, along with the decision makers –every country has its own dynamics. The leads sound solid and we booked a substantial amount of business in just about every country in the world. Asia took the lead, however.”
Japan-based Shima Seiki returned to a familiar city to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of its WHOLEGARMENT knitting technology.
At 1995 here, the company launched the world's first WHOLEGARMENT knitting machine and marked the milestone at this year’s ITMA under the slogan "Innovation Coming of Age."
“It was launched with a lot of fanfare in 1995,” Mikasi Karasuno, a member of the Planning Group in the company’s Total Design Center, told eTC during the show. “The media called it ‘the magic of the Orient.’ WHOLEGARMENT was way ahead of its time. And we have made a lot of improvements in the last two decades.”
Shima Seiki celebrates 20 years of WHOLEGARMENT
SDL Atlas: Quality leads should be fruitful
SDL Atlas Textile Testing Solutions reported an “excellent” ITMA, with quality leads from more than 20 countries, according to John Crocker, business development manager.
“We are still in the process of fully qualifying those leads but feel they will be fruitful,” he said.
SDL Atlas introduced six newly redesigned instruments and displayed its latest instrument, the CutPro Sample Shredder.
It was “in with the old” for Italy-based UP Solutions, a PA Group company, during ITMA 2015.
The software solutions provider had on display a 19th century handloom, on loan from client Rubelli SpA. And the working jacquard machine was quite the attention grabber, according to Josh Davis of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based PA Group USA.
“As a software company, we had to be creative to get people to pay attention to us with all the huge machines around,” said Davis, marketing director. “But our booth was pretty much packed from open to close every single day. The handloom garnered a lot of attention, most likely because of the shocking contrast between the antique jacquard machine and all the modern, computerized and automated equipment on display from the machine manufacturers.”
‘In with the old’ for UP Solutions/PA Group
