The roughly twenty Italian machinery manufacturers operating in the weaving technology sector (including machinery for production preparation and related accessories) exported a significant portion of their overall turnover in 2005 (around 76 percent, for a value of 416 million Euros).
For the first half of 2006, exports amounted to 244 million Euros. The primary destinations are the Asian markets, which absorb 47 percent of the industry's total exports.
Turkey and China are the most important markets for Italian producers (acquiring respectively 19 percent and 18 percent of Italian exports), while India remains the other major player for manufacturers of weaving machinery (importing 15 percent of Italy's total exports).
In this sector of the industry, Italian manufacturers of looms occupy a particularly significant position, especially in the area of rapier and air-jet looms, for which Italy is the leading producer worldwide, not just in volumes sold, but also in terms of the high level of innovative components it puts out on the market.
Above all in rapier and air-jet technology, where Italian machinery manufacturers have demonstrated an unrivalled degree of excellence.
Foreign acquisitions by Italy's textile machinery industry in recent years have given the sector the possibility of controlling the three main types of weaving technology, that is weft insertion system in rapier, air-jet and projectile.
While the pastfew years have been characterised by technology improvements geared at electronic applications rather than mechanical systems, the weaving machinery sector has nonetheless continued to seek out technology solutions targeting a combination of machine productivity with the possibility of manufacturing innovative and niche market articles.
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