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projectile looms, shipments increased by 20 per
cent from 16,000 in 2010 to 19,250 in 2011.
Also deliveries of shuttle-less air-jet looms in-
creased from 17,750 in 2010 to 21,500 in 2011
(21 per cent). As in previous years the main
destination of shuttle-less looms was Asia,
where 148,500 or 96 per cent of all new shuttle-
less looms were installed.
Country-wise the biggest global investor was
again China with 128,100 looms (83 per cent),
of which 106,000 were water-jet looms, 13,900
air-jet looms and 8,250 rapier/projectile looms.
With 9,100 looms (6 per cent) of global ship-
ments, India was the second biggest investor,
followed by Indonesia with 2,900 (1.9 per cent)
and Korea with 2,500 looms (1.6 per cent).
Circular & flat knitting
Global shipments of large circular knitting
machines decreased by 16 per cent from 34,500
in 2010 to 28,900 in 2011. Nevertheless, this
was still the third highest number of large circu-
lar knitting machines ever shipped. Also in this
segment Asia was the main regional investor in
absorbing 26,400 machines or 91 per cent of all
machines shipped in 2011. The biggest single
investor was again China with a total of 21,200
machines (a global market share of 73 per cent),
followed by India with 1,500 machines (or 5.2
per cent), Bangladesh with 1,050 machines (or
3.6 per cent) and Turkey with 900 machines (or
3.1 per cent).
In electronic flat knitting machines, global
shipments in 2011 jumped by 37 per cent to
70,000 machines. The bulk of global ship-
ments of electronic flat knitting machines was
delivered to Asia (65,250 or 93 per cent), while
Europe’s (including Turkey) share reached 5.8
per cent (4,100 machines). The biggest sin-
gle investor in 2011 was again China, where
54,800 new machines (78 per cent) were
installed, followed by Bangladesh with 4,475
machines (6.4 per cent), Hong Kong with
2,930 machines (4.2 per cent), Turkey with
2,150 machines (3.1 per cent) and Italy with
1,120 machines (1.6 per cent).
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investor in this spinning technology installing
in total 463,250 new rotors or 81 per cent of
global shipments. China was by far the biggest
single investor in rotors absorbing 388,250
or 68 per cent of global shipments. India was
again a distant second with a total of 37,750
new open-end rotors (6.6 per cent), followed
by Turkey with 35,250 rotors (6.2 per cent),
Uzbekistan with 10,250 rotors (1.8 per cent),
Brazil with 30,250 rotors (5.3 per cent) and the
US with 12,250 rotors (2.1 per cent).
Texturing
Shipments of single heater draw-texturing
spindles (for polyamide filaments) fell from
13,200 in 2010 to 1,824 in 2011 (-86 per cent).
Only two countries, Taiwan, China (1,536) and
Vietnam (288) were installing new texturing
spindles of this type.
In double heater draw-texturing spindles (for
polyester filament) investments surged from
568,250 texturing spindles in 2010 to 826,500
in 2011, an increase of 45 per cent. This meant
also a new all-time high of newly shipped
double-heater draw-texturing spindles. By far
the biggest investor in this type of machinery
was China where 624,500 new spindles or 76
per cent of global shipments were installed,
followed by a distant second India with 90,000
or 11 per cent, Turkey with 20,000 or 2.4 per
cent, Japan with 19,750 or 2.4 per cent and
Taiwan with 7,500 or 0.9 per cent.
Weaving
Worldwide shipments of shuttle-less looms
continued soaring in 2011 to 153,750 ma-
chines, an increase of 44 per cent from last
year’s record of 107,000. The main reason
behind this development is the surge in ship-
ments of water-jet looms. After a skyrocketing
jump of 537 per cent to 73,250 in 2010, which
was partially due to the fact that more weaving
machinery manufacturers reported for the first
time in 2010, global deliveries in this shuttle-
less loom segment continued soaring by 54 per
cent to 113,000 machines in 2011.
In the shuttle-less loom segment of rapier/
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The Textile Magazine
MAY 2012