Technological Heart of Turkish Textile: Machines

Under the heading ‘Fiber Manufacturing, Weaving and Cutting Machines’ with the SITC number of 84.44 in GTIP, there are machinery and devices for textile synthetic or extrusion of artificial fibers, and texturing and cutting machinery and devices for textile articles. The demand for these machines remained almost constant between 2007 and 2012, and decreased by 50 percent during the crisis. $ 38.5 million imports in the first half of 2012 indicate that there will not be a big change in the total figure at the end of the year. Between the first halves of 2007 and 2012, the total amount the sector paid for the machines of manufacturing fiber from woven articles, weaving and cutting exceeds 264.3 million.

Among the machines of fiber preparation, yarn manufacturing preparing, defined by SITC number 84.45 in the textile machinery and imports, there are saw-gin cotton gin machinery, willows, thread rolling machines, crimping machines, machinery and devices that put the carded machine cast into homogenous strip again, open-end spinning machines, ring spinning machines, other machines for spinning textile fibers, machines for doubling or bending textile fibers, bobbin stripping machines, bobbin winders (weft transfer machines), machinery for winding and hanking textile fibers, warping machines, sizing machines for warp yarns, drawing-in machines, devices connecting warp yarns at looms, other machinery and devices for the manufacture of textile yarn.

In this item, the technology in which the highest investment was made is ring spinning machines. $ 50 million imports of ring spinning machines in 2010 rose to $ 76 million in 2011and became $ 41.7 million in the first 6 months of 2012. The demand for ring spinning machines is followed by open-end spinning machines. In the first half of 2012, open-end machines of 17.5 million Liras were purchased. It’s remarkable that the Turkish textile sector performed imports of spinning machinery of more than $ 381 million between the first halves of 2007 and 2012.

No. 8446 GTIP products that cover weaving looms (machines) are weaving looms width of fabrics <30cm, motorized shuttle weaving machines width of fabrics > 30cm, non-shuttle weaving machines width of fabrics > 30cm. Spending $ 1 billion 16 million on weaving looms between 2007 and 2012, textile manufacturers conducted highest valued purchases of shuttleless weaving machines in 2012. Having spent $ 164 million for shuttleless looms, the manufacturers then showed an interest in motorized shuttle width of fabrics > 30cm.

Identified with the number of 8447 in the GTIP list, knitting, guipure, tulle, lace, netting machines and devices is another important item of import in the sector.  Under this heading, there are the following machines: house type swivel needle circular knitting machines cylinder diameter <165 mm, industrial type swivel needle circular knitting machines cylinder diameter <165 mm, house type swivel needle circular knitting machines cylinder diameter> 165 mm, house type swivel needle circular knitting machines cylinder diameter> 165 mm, house type flat knitting machines, industrial-type flat knitting machines, house type stitch-bonding machines, industrial type stitch-bonding machines, others, processing machines, strip and gimp machines, other tulle, lace machines. A total of 1 billion 219 million has been spent on the knitting technology supplied from abroad since 2007.