With the joining of SMIT, the specialist brand of Italian weaving technologies, to Santex Rimar Group, new model GS980 is introduced after the GS900 was launched. New SMIT GS980 is the fastest free flight rapier machine of the market and has improved in terms of versatility, performance, production quality, efficiency and sustainability.
The free flight ribbons system marks out SMIT weaving machine since years: smart and flexible, SMIT GS980 has been designed and manufactured in Italy combining some of the most reliable SMIT features with ground-breaking function solutions that make SMIT GS980 an asset that will keep its value for a long time. Fabrics for apparel, home textile, technical applications and exclusive yarns and patterns can today be woven with excellent quality on SMIT GS980.
SMIT Celebrates Its 80th Anniversary
The machine name has been given after the 80th anniversary of SMIT which was founded in Italy and soon turned out to be an estimated leading manufacturer of weaving machines. "SMIT GS980 will bring more value to our customers and the best ratio between productivity versus running costs. he quality of the fabric produced with our machines has always been a reference for the market and with the new SMIT GS980 we will surely continue to exploit this advantage. The general trend of moving towards productions of higher quality fabrics is already happening and some of our customers at the moment are exploiting some market niches where they can find more profitability: in these circumstances our new SMIT GS980 is the right technology for forward momentum", explains Simone Rancan, CEO at SMIT.
