Karl Mayer opens first assembling plant in India

Opening of the facility with great ceremony

A celebration was held on 27 May to mark the opening of the KARL MAYER factory in India. Representatives from the company and its local agent, A.T.E., took part in the celebrations. Official visitors from KARL MAYER’s top management included the CEO, Arno Gärtner, the head of the Warp Preparation Business Unit, Roland Kohn, and Jochen Schmidt, head of Technical Textiles, Kevin Socha and Milind Mirkar – the managing director and general manager of KARL MAYER India – and head of the Warp Knitting Business Unit, Oliver Mathews. Also included in the special celebrations were representatives from A.T.E., the managing director, Anuj Bhagwati and the director, Gurudas V. Aras. 

India is an important market for KARL MAYER. This traditional textile country is currently the second most important sales region for its Warp #

 

The newly developed DS EC2 machine was also premiered at the opening celebrations, amid great ceremony. The opening and inauguration event included traditional ceremonies, such as the saying of prayers, the burning of incense sticks, gifts of flowers to the god, Ganesh, dances in traditional costume and the cracking of a coconut shell. And of course, Arno Gärtner, cut the red ribbon.

 

Outlook on further activities

These opening celebrations on a smaller scale will be followed by an open house event for KARL MAYER customer at the end of April 2015. In this respect, it is planned to present a warping machine, a wider MJ model as well as some tricot machines. Moreover, by end of December 2014 the KARL MAYER Academy India will move from Surat to Ahmedabad.

 

By concentrating the service activities KARL MAYER hopes to achieve a lot of synergies. The participants in the training courses can see for themselves and be convinced by the quality of KARL MAYER’s location in India and they can have a look at the machines produced there. On the other hand, KARL MAYER benefits from the proximity to its customers.