Santoni has launched an innovative project called K-Fabric. This process transforms circular knitted mesh into linear fabric, giving high-quality and economic benefits. The possibility of transforming circular knitted mesh into linear fabric makes the K-Fabric revolution process the new manufacturing paradigm par excellence, in order to answer the rising production demand of the luxury sector, the changes in the supply chain model and the search for new materials. Thanks to the optimization of the supply chain – from the idea to production, passing through the prototype and the sample – the K-Fabric revolution process meets the modern fashion market’s demand of customized and fast production cycles. Using seamless production flexibility, it basically makes possible the creation of new potentially revolutionary items. Besides giving the opportunity to reach superfine gauges, this process can provide a natural bi-stretch effect without adding elastic yarns and easily allows the knitting of jacquard patterns of any dimension, complexity and placement. Moreover, the K-Fabric process allows with ease the mixture of fibers and a fast and sustainable production of small quantities.

Santoni is a world leader in the production and distribution of circular knitting machines. Santoni’s X-Machine is a four-feed knitting machine which uses sock knitting processes and concepts to produce seamless shoe uppers.