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ITMA Daily News - 16 November 2015
ITMA Daily News - 16 November 2015
07-12-2015
Q&A
Advances in flat knitting machinery
ITMA Daily News interviews, Irfan Yolcular, general manager, Nit Orme
Q
What have been your key textile-related activities over the past year?
A
Nit Orme is a brand which specialises in spare parts for computerised flat knitting machines. As a result of its continuous development policy, the company supplies more than 7,000 parts, including quality cams, brushes and long durable take-down rollers.
In addition, Nit Orme is gaining value in emerging markets with its electronic card repairing service, technical service and maintenance departments, pattern design and consultancy services and with its multi-directed service understanding and stock assortments.
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How are you finding the European textile machinery market at the moment?
A
The European textile industry is constantly evolving as it accelerates its machine development. The area of technical textiles is increasing day by day and this is due to high interest relating to textile machinery innovations.
I think that European machinery manufacturers, in particular, are hard working due to the diversity of the raw materials used by their textile machinery to satisfy the demands of their clients.
Q
Where are your main customers located?
A
Nit Orme exports flat knitting machine spare parts produced in its own plants to more than 50 countries in the world; especially China, Italy, Germany, India, Pakistan and Brazil. However, I can proudly say that our customer portfolio is spread over a wide geographical area from Canada to Australia.
Q
How is the growing Asian textile machinery industry affecting your company?
A
The growth of the Asian textile industry has affected our country in terms of the amount of taxes paid by the textile producers, especially because of the quality of raw materials and manufactured products. However, despite these factors, Turkey still continues to be a shining star in the textile sector. Our products are of great interest in many Asian countries, especially China. Our export volume has therefore increased in the Asian market.
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What are the trends in customer demands for your technologies at the moment?
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The textile machinery industry is always in search of reasonable and sustainable innovations and we offer our customers that.
We provide the correct spare parts quickly, which are produced using the latest technological systems. As a result, textile products are manufactured without errors, improving the performance of the flat knitting machines.
Q
What are the main challenges facing your company?
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The long-established reputation of our business means that several companies are seizing the opportunity to counterfeit our products by using the Nit Orme brand name and it is damaging our company because they are selling their parts with our name.
We advise our customers to be careful about it, and we want to inform and warn that the poor quality and defective parts, which are being sold in the market with our label, are not being produced and sold by us accordingly.
In order to enforce the name and the quality of Nit Orme, we place high importance on all kinds of promotional activities. We are trying to introduce the Nit Orme brand to the whole world by advertising in internationally respected magazines and by participating at a variety of global exhibitions and fairs.
Q
Is your company involved in serving the needs of the technical textiles market and if so, what changes are you making to address this rapidly growing market?
A
Textile products are used today in many different areas ranging from classic clothing textiles to medical textiles. In particular, the softness, flexibility, elasticity, stability and the ability to achieve a fuller structure with features such as 3D technical textiles, is increasing interest in knitted fabrics. Each knitting needle in computerised flat knitting machines can be individually selected and moved to the desired position, and needle beds can be moved respectively.
These features provide endless opportunities in flat knitting machines, especially for the production of 3D-shaped fabrics. Such fabrics can be used instead of a sponge diver, for instance, in automotive and upholstery applications.
In addition to the spare parts we produce, we provide alternative solutions to companies which are operating with flat knitting machines to help them achieve the best results in production.
Q
How has 2015 been for your company business wise and what are your plans for next year?
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2015 is a very special year for our company because we are celebrating our 20th anniversary. We are increasing our production capacity every year and our leadership has continued in 2015, as well.
We are running an intensive work programme in order to keep our leadership in the production of textile machinery spare parts. In this regard, all our employees have a very busy schedule planned for 2016.
Q
What are you hoping to get from ITMA?
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Anyone who wants to learn of the latest textile industry technologies can attend the Nit Orme exhibition where we will showcase all our new products. We look forward to meeting different textile companies and gaining an idea of the positive and negative developments affecting our industry.
Nit Orme is exhibiting in Hall 5 at Stand B120b.
