We were delighted to host Peter Hill, Director Woven Fabrics at Heathcoat Fabrics, for a keynote session at the Picanol headquarters in Ieper (Belgium). Heathcoat Fabrics, which is one of our valued customers, is a leading British company that produces technical textiles for various industries including automotive, aerospace and healthcare, among others.
ITMA ASIA + CITME, which comes soon after ITMA 2023 in Milan, will once again represent an excellent opportunity for Picanol to demonstrate its technological leadership in airjet and rapier weaving machines. Visitors to ITMA ASIA + CITME will be able to discover five different high-tech weaving machine types and the PicConnect digital platform in Hall 3, Booth C11, from November 19-23, 2023, in the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai.
Last Friday, a seminar was organized by the Towel Industry Association of Imabari in Japan. The event focused on terry towel weaving as the city of Imabari is the largest producer of terry towels in Japan.
We are pleased to introduce a set of fresh features in PicConnect, our online platform. In this article, we'll highlight some of these new additions.
We achieved a new milestone last week with the production of our 400,000th weaving machine in Ieper, Belgium. This is a new high point in our company's rich history of production, which started in Ieper. The very first Picanol weaving machine was produced in 1936, based on a design by Spanish engineer Jaimé Picañol, after whom the company was named. The 400,000th weaving machine, an OmniPlus-i Connect airjet weaving machine, leaves the home base in Ieper this week on its way to a customer in India.
On September 20, our Brazilian customer, Atlântica, opened its doors for our customer event in Brusque – a region where many terry cloth mills are active. In fact, Atlântica is one of the first customers in Brazil where the new generation TerryPlus-i Connect weaving machines with the SmartShed shedding motion have been installed. The benefits of the Picanol solutions for weaving high-quality terry with both airjet and rapier technology were explained to the more than 90 customers and prospects in attendance.