During this long period of existence the industry has upgraded itself through innovations and introductions of new products at regular intervals. Sewing and embroidery machinery industry is coming every day with some new features in their machineries to keep abreast with end users requirement. Adaptability and ease of use are becoming the determining factors for the success of a product. Computerized machines with intelligent software applications, automatic re-threading, artistic embroidery designs, and good storage memory are in vogue.

As this market is expected to grow further and reach 25 Million Units by 2010, Fibre2Fashion has tried to take a quick snap shot of innovations in this industry. We have tried to cover some newly introduced sewing and embroidery machines in this article:

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Innovations by Elna srl, Switzerland

Elna 9900 - Semi- industrial embroidery machine

• Single head 4-needle embroidery machine
• 8 bobbin supports
• 100 built-in embroidery designs
• 10 built-in monogram fonts
• Lettering - upper & lower case
• Weight : 20.5 kg
• Dimensions : 365 x 440 x 520 mm
• Multilingual interface - 10 languages
• Fully independent bobbin winding
• USB and ATA PC card compatible
• Direct PC link
• Dual white LED lights illuminate entire work area
• 3 standard hoops included
• (240 x 200 mm, 126 x 110 mm, 50 x 50 mm)
• Embroidery on cap (optional hoop)
• Compatible with six industry-standard Tajima hoops
• Automatic stitch back after thread breakage
• Adjustable speed control up to 800 spm
• Full rotary hook (industrial)

Elna 9500 - Computerized embroidery and sewing machine

• 122 embroidery designs
• 10 monogram fonts
• Lettering upper & lower case
• 307 built-in stitches, including 13 buttonholes
• 3 monogram fonts
• Stitch length : 5 7 mm
• Moveable screen
• Full-colour touch screen (122 x 91 mm)