Karl Mayer, the leading warp knitting machinery manufacturer and a market leader and driving force for innovations in textile machinery building with focus on digitalization as an important success factor has founded a new company called Karl Mayer Digital Factory GmbH, with registered office in Frankfurt/Main.

With this new business, the Karl Mayer Group wants to build up further-reaching digital competences with an agile environment. The main aim is to get a fast and flexible development of new digital solutions, offering perceptible added value for the customers. The targeted business models, products, and services - as part of Karl Mayer’s digitisation strategy – are meant to support the clients in their markets.

Antonia Gottschalk, head of digitisation at Karl Mayer, and managing director of Karl Mayer Digital Factory GmbH said that in the digital world, too, only those offers are successful which can best satisfy the consumer demands. This is the reason why they consistently focus on customer benefits, and combine our long-standing experience as leading textile machinery manufacturer with new, digital know-how.

The new company’s capacities are also intended to complement the ongoing and planned activities in Karl Mayer’s core organisation.

The company with more than 2,500 employees worldwide, the international organisation produces in its main markets. Today the company has subsidiaries in the USA, in India, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, China and Switzerland, as well as agencies all over the world.