Santoni and Lenzing have collaborated on a knitted denim project. Santoni is a seamless knitting machine manufacturer and Lenzing is a fiber manufacturer. Innovative knitted denim is a contrast to the traditional woven denim fabric.
The new project involves the knitting of an innovative denim double-face quilted fabric produced by Santoni’s double jersey circular knitting machine, the Mec-Mor CMP, and Lenzing’s Tencel fiber.
The Mec-Mor CMP is a circular knitted garment length machine complete with rib border separation. It offers both high quality finished items, and high-level productivity with its large number of feeds. One single machine can produce all sizes without waste by means of the variable width of the fabric panels that allows the exact number of working needles to be selected for the required size of product.
Tencel is the sustainable lyocell fiber derived from wood pulp with only wood from certified or controlled sources used. This closed loop production system means the fiber production process is extremely eco-friendly.
Textiles made of Tencel are not only sustainable but soft and comfortable. The yarns can be smoothly knitted on Santoni seamless knitting machines while the garments can undergo the same traditional indigo dyeing process used for denim fabrics.
The new totally-reversible seamless denim quilted jacket produced on this machine provides greater comfort due to its dedicated areas of increased fit and well-being.
