Itema Group, the leading provider of advanced weaving solutions, will be presenting its latest innovations to the weaving industry at ITMA 2023, both on its own booth and on the booths of its partners. At the Itema booth in Hall 6 – B105, the company’s new EVO Series will be in operation throughout the exhibition. Itema, participating in ITMA 2023 with a total of 12 EVO weaving machines, 7 at its own booth and 5 at the booths of its partners Stäubli, Vandewiele, MEI and Julibao, will respond to the current and future demands of the weaving industry.
Itema, showing its point of view by exhibiting weaving machines that produce innovative, complicated and ambitious fabrics to demonstrate its superior textile expertise, will weave styles from leading customers on the machines it will exhibit. ISKO, Mantero Seta, Drago Lanificio in Biella, Tessitura Marinoni, Frau Pérez Textiles and Finsa Textil are among the textile manufacturers that will take part in Itema booth with their sophisticated styles.
EVO weaving range offers more digital possibilities
The EVO Weaving range, which Itema will showcase for the first time at ITMA 2023, features significant innovations designed to raise the bar in terms of textile mastery, eco-efficiency, performance and easy weaving.
Itema Group CEO Ugo Ghilardi said: “The new Itema EVO Weaving Range answers to concrete weavers’ needs. Our vision is to offer to our worldwide customers tangible innovations that, based on the most advanced engineering principles, can improve their productivity, competitiveness on the market, and user experience.”
The new Itema EVO Weaving Range includes the following innovations:
- Advanced solutions for the weft transfer to enhance versatility and machine performance
- The new iSAVER® range which, following its undisputed market success in denim weaving, is now available in up to 6 colors and for many more fabrics, thus significantly increasing the applications of sustainable weaving
- Innovative digital software to enhance user experience and optimize textile production, such as iKNOW™ – the innovative tool that contains all the Itema textile experts’ know-how collected on the field over the years – and MyWeave™ the new, advanced mill monitoring system
- Optimization of key machine components to further improve machine performance, ensure the best possible machine accessibility, and reach unbeatable reliability while preserving the renowned compactness of the Itema weaving machines, which provides weavers with valuable additional space in the weaving floor to install more looms
New digital solutions, such as the brand-new Itema Customer Portal HelloItema, further enriches the visitors’ experience.
Lamiflex® and Schoch® innovations at the Itema booth
The Itema booth will host its weaving solutions as well as the solutions of other companies in the group. Lamiflex® and Schoch®, together with their advanced accessories for weaving machinery, will have dedicated corners on the Itema Group booth and OEM spare parts from Itema and previous brands, including upgrade kits to optimise machine performance and retrofit latest Itema innovations on existing looms. Itemalab®, the Itema advanced innovation hub, has a special environment inside the booth to boost the innovation mission of Itema.
In addition, the Itema booth will host the range of nylon and polyester yarns from RadiciGroup, a leading group in the production of textile solutions for numerous markets such as apparel, furniture and automotive. In particular, RadiciGroup presents products with a reduced environmental impact, both from recycling and made with raw materials of bio origin.
12 Itema Evo weaving solutions for different styles and different demands
The machines to be exhibited and the styles to be woven at Itema’s booth in Hall 6, B105 are listed as follows: R9500EVO woollen style, R9500EVO denim knitted effect denim style, R9500EVO core/wall carpet style, R9500EVO terry fabric style, A9500EVO heavy fabric style, R9500EVO reinforced sail style, Hercules heavy filter fabric style. R9500EVO at Stäubli booth will be exhibited with high fashion clothing style, while R9500 EVO at Vandewiele booth will be exhibited with decoration style. R9500 EVO at MEI booth with label style, R9500 EVO at Julibao booth with label style and R90002 with shoe fabric style will show its performance to the visitors.