Knitting machine manufacturer Mayer & Cie. (MCT) of Albstadt, Germany, delivered in the last week of April the 70,000th circular knitting machine in the company’s 110-year history. It was an FV 2.0 double jersey machine and the customer was knitwear manufacturer Speidel GmbH. Speidel is using the machine at its knitting factory in Bodelshausen, where the main production focus is on high-quality single jersey and fine rib lingerie, most of which is manufactured in body widths to make it optimally comfortable to wear. For years Speidel has ordered the knitting machines it needs solely from Mayer & Cie. in Albstadt-Tailfingen.
“We feel greatly honoured that the seventy thousandth Mayer & Cie. knitting machine was supplied to us. Good and reliable partners on your doorstep are a stroke of good luck, not least because of the short distances, the personal contact and the close collaboration. At the same time, of course, the presence of innovative, forward-looking companies count towards the value and continued existence of a domestic industry location” said Mr. Hans-Jürgen Speidel, Production Manager at Speidel GmbH and the man in charge of the nearly 130 knitting machines at the company’s factory.
Constant quality generates high level of customer loyalty
Speidel knits between 90 and 100 tonnes of material per month, all for its own lingerie product lines. So the main focus, along with reliable machine performance, is on constant high quality of the knitwear. Speidel mostly uses single jersey and fine rib machines that produce circular knitted fabric by the metre in standard body widths of between 12 and 20 inches and a variety of cotton blends such as cotton and Modal or cotton and Elasthan. Less familiar materials like bamboo or a yarn based on algae also find its way via the knitting machine into the company’s latest lingerie collection.
Mayer & Cie. knitting machines developed and manufactured in Albstadt are mainly responsible for Speidel’s knitwear output. Over the past 15 years in particular, a large number of knitting machines with the green MCT logo have joined the machine pool. Speidel has nearly doubled the number of its knitting machines over this period, relying entirely on Mayer & Cie. The most important machines in use at the Speidel factory are the MV 4-3.2 II and the FV 2.0, both of which are highly productive machines for the lingerie sector. The jubilee machine is an FV 2.0.
Our performance for your profit
Mr. Albert Mauz, the manager of Speidel’s knitting factory, has no difficulty in naming the reason for the company’s loyalty to Mayer & Cie. “We appreciate the consistently high quality, the high level of machinery expertise and the continuity we can be sure of at Mayer & Cie. Special requirements that we have of our new machines for production reasons are reliably taken into consideration and implemented at the development stage” he said.
Mayer & Cie. likewise greatly appreciates the longstanding, successful collaboration with Speidel. Mr. Marcus Mayer, Managing Director and Production Manager at MCT, said, “We naturally feel proud of delivering the seventy thousandth knitting machine to the customer, and we are especially proud that we are able to celebrate this occasion together with Speidel, a family firm like our own with a long tradition of innovation and a clear awareness of the merits of quality Made in Germany.”