The Italian companies engaged in the production of spinning machines are located mostly in the areas of Biella and of Prato, moreover in the provinces of Lombardy with higher textile tradition and in the Veneto region.

The Italian supply is nearly all-inclusive, as the supplied machines enable the processing of the whole range of fibres used in the textile production. Equally wide is the range of the equipment engineered and manufactured to create the manifold specialities which characterize the sector of the Italian spinning machines.

The Italian technology which serves spinning has a leading position also in the woollen sector, where some manufacturers of carding and spinning machines rightly enjoy a top reputation in the eyes of the international users of this sector, and have no comparable competition beyond national borders.

Also as far as cotton spinning system is concerned (for the processing, besides of cotton, of flax and blends with man-made fibres, both artificial and synthetic), there are in Italy some prominent companies which enjoy a long tradition and offer in the whole the complete equipment for this specific processing line, from bale opening to the different units for the final treatment of the yarns.

In last years, the applied research of the Italian manufacturers of spinning machines was focused mainly on the critical points of the process, while kept at the same time into consideration the priorities of the textile market downstream.

As to the preparatory processes for spinning, the Italian manufacturers strove to find out proper solutions to following primary needs: i) to reduce the investment and management costs of the preparatory lines; ii) to focus the attention on machines for niche productions with higher added value, in order to obtain a higher remuneration of the invested capitals. This gave rise to preparatory lines which are more compact, simpler and with inferior overall dimensions, thanks to a higher sophistication of the opening and cleaning zones of the processed fibres, as well as to a more thorough and electronically managed supervision of the process conditions in the long run. Almost all manufacturers did their utmost to find out more effective solutions for the elimination of the equipment which increases operating, maintenance and surface occupation costs. The Italian supply of preparatory spinning machines stands out particularly because of its flexibility and its ability to adapt itself to a production logic which aims, by managing small lots, at achieving a substantial added value and which permits the spinners to approach market niches with profitable remuneration level.

Over the years, the yarn formation process experienced intense technological evolutions. The Italian manufacturers maintained a sensitive and vigilant attitude, to grasp the most specific aspects of the technical and stylistically performances of a final textile product under continuous transformation; in this way they were able and ready to offer the machines suited to meet the requirements of the very moment. The manufacturers of cotton and woollen spinning machines practically abandoned, especially in the last two or three decades, the traditional technology, and designed a new an often original solution.

One of the fundamental developments applied to traditional spinning is the exploitation of the automation concept and the assembling of the services required by the spinning mill in order to reduce the operating costs and to ensure good quality in the long run. The latest developments which to a greater extent has stimulated the manufacturers of the western world with higher textile culture (especially in Italy), were principally the compression spinning system and the spinning system for special fancy yarns. This technological breakthrough, which originally materialized on cotton spinning machines, concerns by now also woollen spinning machines - which are more difficult to be designed -, a sector where the Italian manufacturers are leading with their ring frames for compact spinning.