Germany-based flat knitting machine builder, Stoll, is keen to boost business of technical textiles such as footwear and will participate at Techtextil exhibition to be held in May. Booth C19 in Hall 3 in the exhibition will display Stoll’s products.
As per Stoll CEO Andreas Schellhammer, with the development of knitted football boots technology has shown its importance. A couple of years ago, no-one was talking about knitted sports shoes but look now at what the biggest two names in the industry are producing. There is a lot of hype and fantasy about what knitting machines can do but it’s important to find the products that can really offer commercial growth.
With a knitting width of 50 inches, the 3-system CMS ADF-3 continues to perform well in an intensely competitive market mainly due to these broad areas of applications. The CMS ADF-3 covers a gauge range from E 10 to E 18, including multi-gauge technology. The CMS ADF-3 is based on 32 motorized yarn carriers. These carriers move independently from the carriage and can position themselves vertically or horizontally. Positioning is controlled by the pattern programme with these configurations opening up almost unlimited possibilities for the user regarding patterns and color combinations. This makes CMS ADF-3 versatile.
When it comes to plating, the benefits of flexible yarn carriers are particularly noticeable as its inverse plating allows you to create any conceivable colour combination. With intarsia plating, color nuances can be added to individual or multiple pattern areas. The CMS ADF-3 also enables color fields of less than 1" to be knitted.
Stoll also highlights the machine’s efficiency, which is boosted by more effective knitting sequences that reduce the stroke. Faster retrofitting times when changing patterns lower the machine’s downtimes considerably. Even its ergonomic improvements have generated several benefits for the user who work with the machine on a daily basis.
The Stoll enterprise is the integrative link between the highly sophisticated technology in the area of developing and manufacturing flat knitting machines on the one hand and an innovative independent thinker and developer in the section of fashion and technology on the other hand.
