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Shipments of new textile machinery fall in 2015

23 May '16
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Shipments of open-end rotors fell by 6 per cent to a level over 383,000 rotors in 2015. About 81 per cent of worldwide shipments of open-end rotors were destined for Asia. Thereby, deliveries to Asia increased moderately by over 2 per cent to nearly 312,000 rotors. In contrast, regions such as North America and Western Europe recorded annual percentage declines of 47 per cent and 60 per cent, respectively. Shipments to China, the world's largest investor of open-end rotors, increased massively by around 66 per cent in 2015. The world's second and third largest investors in 2015 were India and the US.

Global shipments of single heater draw-texturing spindles (mainly used for polyamide filaments) fell by nearly 82 per cent from over 6,500 in 2014 to nearly 1,200 in 2015. With 65 per cent Asia is the region where most of the single heater draw-texturing spindles were shipped to, followed by Eastern Europe with 32 per cent and South America with nearly 3 per cent.

In the segment of double heater draw-texturing spindles (mainly used for polyester filaments) the downward trend continued and global shipments fell by 25 per cent on an annual basis to over 322,000 spindles. Asia's share of worldwide shipments amounted to close to 81 per cent. Thereby, China remained the largest investor accounting for 57 per cent of global shipments.

In 2015, worldwide shipments of shuttle-less looms increased by 14 per cent to nearly 82,000 units. Thereby, shipments of water-jet and rapier/projectile shuttle-less looms increased by 24 per cent to nearly 30,000 looms and by 17 per cent to close to 32,000. In contrast, the deliveries of air-jet looms fell by over 1 per cent to a level of nearly 20,000 looms.

Not surprisingly, the main destination of shipments of all shuttle less looms (air-jet, water-jet and rapier/projectile) in 2015 was Asia with 93 per cent of worldwide deliveries, of which 39 per cent were water-jet looms and 37 per cent rapier/projectile looms. In Europe and North America 75 per cent and 25 per cent of shipments were for rapier/projectile looms, while the share of water-jet looms was only 8 per cent and 2 per cent, respectively.

Global shipments of large circular knitting machines fell by 6 per cent to a level of 26,700 units in 2015. Also for this category Asia is the world's leading investor. A total of 88 per cent of all circular knitting machines were shipped to Asia in 2015. With 53 per cent of worldwide deliveries China is the single largest investor. India and Bangladesh rank second and third with 6,500 and 3,100 units, respectively.

2015 was a very good year for electronic flat knitting machines as global shipments grew by 52 per cent to 70,100 machines, the highest level since 2011. Asia received the highest share of shipments (93 per cent). China remained the world's largest investor for flat knitting machines in 2015 investments increasing from 19,000 units to 35,500 units.

The 2015 edition of ITMF's International Textile Machinery Shipments Statistics also included for the tenth time, the data on finishing machinery. However, the questionnaire was revised to present a more accurate picture of shipments in this sector. Therefore, it is not possible to compare this version with previous versions of the finishing machinery statistics, the release said. (SH)

 

Fibre2Fashion News Desk – India

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