Biggest order of 1500 weaving machines in Chinese market

18 Jul '06

3 min read

Miro Radici – CEO of Itema Group, worldwide leader in the textile machinery sector, - signed the most important order ever obtained by the North Italian Company for the supply of 1500 air jet looms in the Chinese market.

In particular, the agreement is referred to a first supply by the Italian Group of 776 machines(air jet weaving looms type Mythos E-Tec) for the new production plant of JIANGSU HENGLI CHEMICAL FIBRE. A further expansion of this production site has been already planned for next year.

Wujiang City in Jiangsu Province (where JIANGSU HENGLI CHEMICAL FIBRE CO. LTD. is located) is less than 2 hours from Shanghai by car. This city with 1.200.000 habitants nowadays (45 percent of the economy based on textile) has started to develop more than 100 years ago with the production of silk and has now become one of the biggest area worldwide for the production of polyester (the weaving machines installed exceed 140.000, 95 percent Japanese and 5 percent European).

JIANGSU HENGLI CHEMICAL FIBRE CO. LTD. is one of the biggest private Chinese concern for the production of polyester fibres. With a covered area of 1.600.000 sqm., this company actually produces 500 Mio of sqm of fabric (some projects now underway will increase this production to 1.100 Mio of sqm.) and 400 tons of yarn yearly (with a project under fulfilment to reach 540 tons) and today they have 3000 water jet looms and 400 air jet looms installed.

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