ITMA 2015 is reckoned as the world’s most important textile machinery exhibition where about 123,000 visitors from 147 countries were welcomed. The Groz-Beckert booth attracted more than 10,000 guests from 85 countries. Most of the visitors came from Italy (11.5 per cent), India (10.2 per cent), Turkey (10.1 per cent) and Germany (9.5 per cent).
ITMA 2015 set its focus on innovative solutions that enable sustainable development. Groz-Beckert presented itself under the motto “Living in a Textile World” and took the visitors on a journey through ‘the textile worlds’ of the company. Its exhibits and video clips rendered it possible to save resources and to have an improvement in productivity at the same time by choosing and using intelligent products. The focus was on customer benefits.
Alongside video clips, Groz-Beckert chose realistic seeming textile machinery made of acrylic glass for product presentation in areas like knitting, weaving, felting, tufting, carding and sewing. For each product area acrylic glass machines and exhibits were prepared and equipped with the company products. This made the area of application visible. For example, the knitting machine needles and system parts and their perfectly matched interaction.
In this context, the first presentation of the knitting needle Lightspeed Plus was one of the highlights. By using this needle type it is possible to reduce energy consumption up to 20 per cent compared to conventional needles. Another novelty was the presentation of the new product range Carding.
The area of Felting focused in its presentation on product solutions for filtration, and the tufting sector showed the enhanced Gauge Part System consisting of tufting needle, grippers, reed fingers and the cutter.
In addition to numerous product innovations and new developments, Groz-Beckert presented at ITMA 2015 a completely new booth concept and a new corporate design.
Groz-Beckert is the world’s leading provider of industrial machine needles, precision parts and fine tools as well as systems and services for production and joining of textile fabrics. The products and services support knitting, weaving, felting, tufting, carding and sewing.
The family-owned company, founded in 1852, employed nearly 7,700 people and generated a turnover of around €570 Mio. in 2014.