ITMA 2019 Exhibitor Preview: KARL MAYER — Solutions For Warp Knitting, Warp Preparation And Technical Textiles | Varitex Spare Parts

Standing at the base called "Tranquility," Neil Armstrong read from a plaque on the lunar module’s landing gear. It was a message about the mission for those watching, and those who might journey there in the future:

ISG officially bought Weirton Steel for $255 million dollars in 2004, after Weirton Steel had already cut 950 jobs, handed off its pension liabilities to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and cut both healthcare and life insurance benefits from its retirees. In 2005, ISG was sold to Mittal Steel, and in 2006, after a merger with Arcelor, the Weirton mill would find its permanent home with ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker.

The developer version of Ara is set to start shipping later this year. The package includes the phone and “a few modules.” Google is also working on a consumer version of the modular handset due out at some point next year.

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Karl Mayer, the leading textile machinery manufacturer, has completed some optimisation work on the technical featured of its NOV-O-MATIC short-warp, sectional warping machine to make it more suited to the market requirements.

“I really hope not, otherwise I’m kinda screwed, huh? But seriously – and perhaps I’m being naïve and overly optimistic – while I think there will be a role for AI, whether it’s reporting news, or filtering content ruthlessly by analytics, I’d like to think that we still crave human connection. 

The high-performance NFMJ 80 6/66 narrow fabric needle loom is the world’s largest machine of its type and is naturally designed and built by the Jakob Müller company. The SPE3 jacquard unit has 1,536 functions and thus enables the weaving of elastic and non-elastic tapes with very fine threads. The jacquard narrow fabric needle loom on display at the fair operates using the high-middle-low principle and 768 functions are available for actual patterning.

The three men spent the next six months in rigorous training, determined to get it right. NASA wasn’t taking any chances, either.

The company’s sensors, software programmes and servers have become increasingly sophisticated as part of the TEXconnect program, and the real-time data from different machines – across connected manufacturing sites and across different countries and even continents – can be collected and shared. Digital models of both machines and production processes can be created and analysed for the optimisation of production settings, to vastly improve scheduling and planning and also make considerable savings in raw materials and energy consumption.

"So, I thought, ‘Well, when I step off, I — just gonna be a little step.’  They — we– step from there down to there.  But then I thought about all those 400,000 people that had given me the opportunity to make that step and thought, ‘it’s gonna be a big something for all those folks,’" he replied.

Karen Varitek and Kristin Mirabelli say they live nearly identical lives — namely, they live in three different states during the course of the year. “We’re professional movers,” Mirabelli says. During the off-season, from October to February, home for the Variteks is Georgia, for the Mirabellis, Michigan — where the women have extended families. They consider those their “real” homes.

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