The KARL MAYER GROUP will demonstrate a WEFTTRONIC® II G for technical textile makers at the ITMA with additional features and enhancements for even greater efficiency.
This warp knitting machine with weft insertion creates high-strength polyester lattice constructions, which are well-established in various industries, but particularly the building industry. It provides exceptional productivity and additional benefits thanks to design advancements, with a working width of 213″. Monitoring and management of weft thread tension as well as the new VARIO WEFT laying mechanism are new features. Maximum flexibility is the goal of the weft insertion component. With no need for mechanical assistance during yarn insertion and no restrictions on repeat lengths, it enables quick and simple electronic pattern changes for the weft yarn. Furthermore, there is less waste. As a result, the WEFTTRONIC® II G also excels in terms of affordability and sustainability.
The KARL MAYER GROUP also provides thoughtful Care Solutions to its clients. The new support offers include service packages that bundle various services as well as retrofit packages for retrofitting control and drive technology for weft insertion and composite machines. These consist of drive belt replacements and machine inspections. The customer benefits from set pricing that include technician assignments’ costs, a range of discount alternatives, and open and honest service.
A brand-new approach to city greening that is vertical is provided from the technical textiles application sector. The innovation’s main component is a grid cloth made by KARL MAYER using warp knitting machines with weft insertion. Technology Textiles GmbH. Flax is used to make the knitted lattice material. Fast-growing plants use it as a climbing aid, and after the greening period in the autumn, it can be recycled as biomass alongside these plants in pyrolysis facilities to make power and activated carbon. Through evaporation, the planted sails throughout the summer reduce the surrounding temperature. Photosynthesis also produces fresh air and binds CO2. Low soil needs and flexible placement in public areas are other beneficial features. The Micro Climate Cultivation, OMC°C firm created the greening technology with help from KARL MAYER Technische Textilien.
Additionally, the KARL MAYER GROUP will display a sustainable composite product manufactured from natural fibres. The new lightweight material’s reinforcing textileis a multiaxial non-crimp fabric, which was also produced from the bio-based raw material flax on a COP MAX 4 from KARL MAYER Technische Textilien. The boatbuilding specialist GREENBOATS uses natural fibre composites to achieve more sustainable products. The fact that it succeeds in this is shown, for example, by the Global Warming Potential (GWP): 0.48 kg of
CO2 per kilogram of flax reinforcement compares with 2.9 kg of CO2 per kilogram of glass textile.
