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| The Textile Magazine
JUly 2012
ITMA Asia + CITME 2012
Picanol presented a
wide variety of weaving
machines, both airjet
and rapier at ITMA Asia.
For the first time on
the Asian continent the
new OMNIplus Summum
was shown. This weaving
machine will be the new
platform for further
developments in the airjet
segment. The main features
of the machine are the
innovative insertion system
and the Picanol BlueBox
system, the new electronic
platform for Picanol
machines.
Besides the OMNIplus Sum-
mum, the OMNIplus-X was also on
display. This machine is developed
and produced at Picanol’s Suzhou
plant in China, but by using the
proven OMNIplus 800 technol-
ogy. The OMNIplus-X responds to
Mr. Luc Tack, Managing Director, Picanol Group