Japanese computerised flat knitting machine manufacturer Shima Seiki is celebrating the 20th anniversary of WholeGarment technology at ITMA 2015. At the last ocassion held in Milan, Shima Seiki had introduced the world’s first wholegarment knitting machine, which is capable of producing a garment in its entirety with no seams.

“At the trade show, Shima Seiki will propose several novel ways to produce Wholegarment knitwear even more efficiently by exploiting 3D shaping and tubular knitting characteristics,” it said in a press release.

Furthermore, the company will emphasise the economic and logistic advantages in domestic production of the technology, which further increases the sustainability factor by eliminating time, cost and energy otherwise spent in shipping from off-shore locations.

It is displaying the compilation of two decades of ongoing research, development and refinement in Wholegarment knitting technology, which is the new MACH2XS.

“The new flagship machine features the company’s original SlideNeedle on four needle beds that earned it the pinnacle position in modern knitting machine technology,” Shima Seiki added.