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KARL MAYER Holding SE & Co. KG

KARL MAYER Holding SE & Co. KG

KARL MAYER Holding SE & Co. KG

17.03.2019 13:03

Don’t just stick with what you know - think outside the box

KARL MAYER’s textile innovations for the shoe sector

For many years, KARL MAYER has been developing innovative shoe fabrics on its warp knitting machines. A wide variety of textiles, which are setting the trend on the market, can be produced on its high-speed tricot and double-bar raschel machines. The latest developments are aimed at reducing the number of processing steps in the production chain.

Uppers manufactured from a single piece are nothing new. In the sports shoe sector in particular, textile designs, which reproduce the butterfly contours of the entire upper shoe area, are creating quite a stir. KARL MAYER has gone one step further with integrated production. This company uses its double-bar raschel technology to also incorporate the insole directly into the textile product. The covering for the lower area of the shoe is produced during the warp knitting process on an RDJ 5/1 and is joined at the sides with the butterfly shape. A short seam is all that is needed to close the shape of the shoe to which the actual sole is applied directly by injection moulding. This modification to the production process enables making-up costs to be reduced by as much as a third.

But the potential of the double-bar raschel technology is also manifold in terms of design: Different names can be worked to personalise the shoes, as well a different serial numbers and a wide variety of patterns.

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