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- Title
ITMA 2011 – Pletilstvo: celovita evropska predstava za svetovno občinstvo.
- Authors
Čuden, Alenka Pavko
- Abstract
All the knitting industry sub-sectors were presented at ITMA 2011 in Barcelona, namely the flat and circular weft knitting, warp knitting, hosiery, knitting elements production and special equipment for the knitted fabrics production. In the field of knitting, the increase in the patterning possibilities, finer gauge, knitting speed, expanding possibilities of quick changes in gauge and patterning, and adapting to consumers' requests has continued. Due to an expected increase in prices, special attention was paid to reduced energy consumption. The production shift to the areas with cheap labour has encouraged the machine producers even more than in the past to develop two major groups of knitting machines - efficient and economic models made especially for the mass production on the one hand and innovative designs for small batch and ultra-flexible manufacture of products for high price segment on the other. Traditional manufacturers of knitting machines have moved forward compared to the new ones by focusing on sustainable development. Two decades ago, two manufacturing processes, knitting and sewing, were replaced by whole garment and seamless all-in-one concepts. With the new spin-knit concept, the spinning and knitting processes were joined. Joining the whole processes not only the processing phases was undoubtedly the greatest novelty of ITMA Barcelona, which clearly showed the direction of thinking, i.e. the shortest time possible and the minimal space required for the manufacture from a raw material to a finished product.
- Subjects
BARCELONA (Spain); SPAIN; EXHIBITIONS; KNITTING; KNITWEAR; PRICE increases; KNITTING machines
- Publication
Tekstilec, 2012, Vol 55, Issue 2, p99
- ISSN
0351-3386
- Publication type
Article