India has been developing to one of the largest and most quickly growing single markets of the Karl Mayer Group during the last few years, both in the sector of warp knitting as well as in the fields of technical textiles and warp preparation. Karl Mayer believes in this market and anticipates profitable business for the years to come and decided to launch its extra wide ML machine in India. Karl Mayer with Tee Pee Textiles, a part of Zenith Silk Mills celebrated the inauguration of its extra wide Multibar Lace machine with a working width of 210" last month in Surat. Zenith Silk Mills, had purchased this lace raschel machine with the large working width for his subsidiary plant in Surat, where the celebratory open house event took place. The event dedicated to the market launch of the 210"-wide Multibar Lace in India was attended by the company’s Directors Paresh and Nirav Jariwala, Arno Gärtner, CEO of Karl Mayer, Kevin Socha, Managing Director of Karl Mayer India Private Limited, and Karl Mayer’s Sales Vice President Oliver Mathews. Today India’s warp knitting sector represents one tenth of China’s warp knitting industry. Although India has already made good progress in this respect yet there is still a long road ahead. Besides, another important aspect are committed customers who are prepared to develop new fabrics. The fact that India has a lot of such customers was especially demonstrated by the great interest in the machine show in Surat. Around 150 textile companies accepted the invitation to come to the inauguration of the extra wide ML machine. All the important customers in Surat were there for the presentation. Some of them even came from Amritsar, said Oliver Mathews, Sales Vice President of the Warp Knitting Business Unit at Karl Mayer. Visitors saw the production of two different sari fabrics in a gauge of E 24, each consisting of four panels next to each other, demonstrating the productivity and patterning possibilities of the machine. The flexible clip string pattern guide fingers are one of the latest features guaranteeing efficiency, reliability and rapid pattern change, the manufacturer reports. With the 210"-wide ML series Karl Mayor group has hit the nail on the head for the Indian market. A number of projects are already up and running in the sari and outerwear sectors