Coloreel close new deal with ZSK Machines in the US

• January 18, 2022

“This is a natural next step in our partnership with ZSK and enable us additional possibility to grow our business in the US. ZSK Machines has great reach into the US embroidery market and provides excellent customer solutions and support. I am looking forward to many more units sold through our new distribution partnership.”

Bob Mattina, ZSK Embroidery, comments:

"This is an exciting time for the textile market, and we are honored to serve the industry and support such incredible developments. We are looking forward to expanding the world of Coloreel and pushing the limits of embroidery."

For more information about Coloreel, follow the links below or contact:

Sven Öquist, VP Sales Coloreel, sven.oquist@coloreel.com, (+46) 708 284969
Henrik Linder, VP Marketing & Communication Coloreel, henrik.linder@coloreel.com, (+46) 702 187101

• 13. December 2021

Mayer & Cie. goes for modern power generation: New CHPs near completion

February 2022 is Mayer & Cie.’s target date for taking its two new natural gas-fired combined heat and power plants (CHPs) into service. Excavators were at work for over six months on-site and even outside the works site to carry out the preliminaries: connecting the different buildings to a the gas line and the individual heating systems with each other. They were separate because the circular knitting machine manufacturer has grown and added to its facilities over the decades. The works site now covers an area of around 35,000 square meters.

Benjamin Mayer
Managing Director

“We have been working since 2013 to make our headquarters energy supply more efficient and more appropriate to our needs,” says Heiko Hämmerle, the head of technical engineering at Mayer & Cie. Hämmerle has clear expectations of his new building services technology. He expects the combined heat and power plants with an output of 900 KW to meet between 80 and 90 per cent of the heating requirements of Mayer & Cie.’s Albstadt-Tailfingen works and its approximately 300 employees. The CHPs will also generate 50 per cent of the electricity used and, in the summer months, 50 per cent of the energy required for cooling. “In all that should save us around 380,000 litres of heating oil per year,” he says.

Mayer & Cie. is not only implementing its energy renovation as planned but has also won awards for doing so. Several years ago Baden-Württemberg state government named the family firm one of its Top 100 firms for resource efficiency.

Says Heiko Hämmerle, “The CHPs mark the completion of this award-winning concept. We will be delighted when we take them into service on schedule in February 2022.”

From February 2022, Mayer & Cie. will rely on two CHPs for producing energy, including power for lighting their buildings.

SHIMA SEIKI Opens Online Store for APEXFiz Subscriptions

Leading textile technology provider SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD. of Wakayama, Japan announces the opening of its new “SHIMA eStore” online shopping site for purchasing subscriptions to its APEXFiz design software. Users can access the SHIMA eStore to purchase and download entry-level APEXFiz Design Jr. subscription software, or sign up for a free 30-day trial.

SHIMA SEIKI’s APEXFiz subscription-based design software has been on sale since March 2021 as the latest addition to its proven SDS-ONE APEX series design system lineup. Whereas previous APEX-series design systems were offered as an all-in-one proprietary hardware/software package, APEXFiz is available as subscription-based design software that can be installed on customers’ individual computers. Maintaining proven functions that have made the APEX series so popular with fashion designers, with APEXFiz those strengths are now enhanced with the added versatility to adapt to different work styles and business environments of the “new normal,” including teleworking and telecommuting.

APEXFiz offers the latest fashion tech for supporting the creative side of fashion from planning and design to colorway evaluation, realistic fabric simulation and 3D virtual sampling. Virtual samples are a digitized version of sample making that allows visual confirmation of garment designs without the need for producing physical prototypes, reducing time, cost and material that are otherwise wasted. APEXFiz thereby helps to realize sustainability while digitally transforming the fashion supply chain.

APEXFiz is available in 5 different software variations from APEXFiz Design Jr. to APEXFiz Design Pro that can be selected according to each customer's needs. APEXFiz Design Jr., sold at the SHIMA eStore, is entry-level software that specializes in the design and simulation of woven and flat knitted fabrics for supporting virtual sampling. Fabric simulations are available in different formats to be used together with 3D virtual sampling software besides APEXFiz, allowing continued use of software already used by customers while enhancing the realism of digital prototypes created on them.