On 23 September 2025, Mayer & Cie., a manufacturer of circular knitting and braiding machines in Albstadt, filed an application for the opening of insolvency proceedings in self-administration at the Hechingen District Court.
Mayer & Cie. will participate in ITMA Asia from October 28 to 31, 2025, which takes place in Singapore. Visitors will find the manufacturer of circular knitting machines and braiding machines in Hall 5, Stand D 301.
And another one: Mayer & Cie. just sent off the second braiding machine equipped with 48 carriers. It needed a forklift designed for especially heavy loads to put the braiding head onto the truck. For Mayer & Cie., this marks a milestone in the evolution of the braiding unit of the company.
On July 8, 2025 Mayer & Cie. celebrates its 120th anniversary. The company, now in its fourth generation of family ownership, specializes in the production and sale of circular knitting and braiding machines.
The new machine control system Control 5.0 is now available. It makes from Mayer & Cie. circular knitting machines Internet- and knitlink-ready, preparing them for the digital future of textile production.
Control 5.0 is the prerequisite for accessing knitlink, Mayer & Cie.’s digital platform. The new machine control system is available as an upgrade kit for all machines built from 2001 onward. From now on, every newly delivered mechanical circular knitting machine will be equipped with Control 5.0 as standard. Electronic machines will follow in due time.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
New VersionDiameter [inch]: 26″ – 48″Machine gauges [E]: 14 – 60No. of feeders: 96 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 25 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 990
Patrick Moser began his career at Mayer & Cie. as a service technician – and still benefits from the valuable insights he gained during his assignments around the globe. Today, these experiences help him tackle the wide range of challenges in his current role, which spans design, assembly, and logistics for Mayer & Cie.’s braiding machines.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Diameter [inch]: 30″ – 36 Machine gauges [E]: 28 – 32
No. of feeders: 108 at 34″
Speed up to [rpm]: 34 rpm at 34″
Speed factor (SF): 1156
At the end of March 2025, Mayer & Cie. put another DMG Mori lathe into operation. It is the fourth of a total of five state-of-the-art CNC lathes that Mayer & Cie. uses in the manufacturing process.
Under a new partnership agreement between TotalEnergies Lubrifiants and Mayer & Cie. signed, the Tixo Stainless co-branded product range will be sold by Mayer & Cie.’s expert distributors worldwide to their customers
Kerem Ögretmen from Mayer Mümessillik on anticipating customer demands and in a second-generation family business
Colombiatex 2024 (January 23–25, 2025) once again proved to be a trade show with an event-like character and was a success for Mayer & Cie. The event in Medellín attracted numerous fashion industry customers and provided an ideal platform for discussions on market trends and technological developments.
“Precision starts in the development process, in manufacturing”, says alfonso Bonaffini. Together with a team of 15, he is in charge of Quality Management at Mayer & Cie.
When Michael Fortenbacher started his own apprenticeship with Mayer & Cie. in 1986, a lot of manual work was still required. Today, more work is done by machines and trainers make sure apprentices feel comfortable and identify with their future career.
The German braiding machine manufacturer Mayer & Cie. has been offering braiding machines with 48 carriers since this autumn. An MR-11 type braiding machine will be the first to be delivered with 48 carriers. It will leave the plant in Albstadt, Southern Germany, before Christmas. The first MR-15 equipped with 48 carriers is to follow in spring 2025. With the braiding machines with 48 carriers, customers benefit from larger inner tube diameters, short set-up times and unaltered coil volumes. This applies to both yarn and wire.
The machines that run at Gota in Albstadt-Tailfingen are many decades old. The fabric they produce is used, among other things, to make “Merz b. Schwanen” brand shirts, which have achieved cult status thanks to the “The Bear” series at the latest.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 26″ – 48″Machine gauges [E]: 18 – 32No. of feeders:96 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 50 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 1500
Caine-Allen Bauser has been living in China for almost a year. He took care of the relocation of the Mayer & Cie. works from Shanghai to Jintan. He already knew during his training that he would follow a circular knitting machine to the end of the world, if need be.
At Simatex in Argentina, Mayer & Cie. welcomed numerous visitors to their booth – despite the difficult market situation in the country. Fernando Ferradás, long-standing agent in Argentina relates this to the new government’s economical policy.
At ITM 2024, Mayer & cie. circular knitting machines and digital solutions – knitlink and knithawk in particular – met with interest.
In Spring, we got visitors from Döhler in Brazil. The company works with circular knitting machines by Mayer & Cie. to produce mattress covers and shoe uppers.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 30 – 34″Machine gauges [E]: 20 – 24No. of feeders: 96 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 33 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 990
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 15″ – 36″Machine gauges [E]: 18 – 28 No. of feeders: 120 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 50 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 1500
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 26″ – 48″Machine gauges [E]: 18 – 32No. of feeders:96 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 50 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 1500
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 26″ – 34″Machine gauges [E]: 16 – 32No. of feeders: 48 at 38″Speed up to [rpm]: 23 rpm at 38″Speed factor (SF): 690
Sweatpants are becoming ever more popular, thanks to the coronavirus and the accompanying home office boom. The comfy legwear can be produced on a Mayer & Cie. MBF 3.2, for example.
Twenty-five tonnes of knitwear per day is the Rubenis knitting factory’s production capacity. This impressive number is reached thanks to more than 30 Mayer & Cie. circular knitting machines.
In an interview on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of collaboration between Dimatex and Mayer & Cie., Fernando Ferradás, managing director of the Argentine representation, talks about memories, milestones and circular knitting machines.
Business development trips as we know them cannot take place this year. In a virtual excursion to Spain and Portugal, organized by the VDMA, Mayer & Cie. demonstrated a profound market knowledge and apt machines.
Even in pandemic year 2020 Mayer & Cie. (MCT) has further improved its leading position in Turkey. The reasons for this year’s success are understood to be the transfer to production locations near Europe, Turkey’s state-of-the-art machinery and an increase in demand for comfy home office.
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 26″ – 38″Machine gauges [E]: 18 – 32No. of feeders: 96 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 40 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 1200
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:Diameter [inch]: 26″ – 48″Machine gauges [E]: 14 – 60No. of feeders: 96 at 30″Speed up to [rpm]: 25 rpm at 30″Speed factor (SF): 990
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Diameter [inch]: 26″ – 38″
Machine gauges [E]: 32 – 44
No. of feeders: 96 at 30″
Speed up to [rpm]: 37 rpm at 30″
Speed factor (SF): 1050
