Picanol Products Are Designed With A Focus On Four Principles
Picanol, a manufacturer of high-tech weaving machines and accessories, has a worldwide sales network and the fastest air-jet and rapier weaving machines. Picanol exhibited 12 machines at ITMA 2019, including the new air-jet weaving machine OmniPlus-i.
Picanol has a production area of 260,000 square meters in Leper, Belgium, and employs more than 2000 people worldwide.
The company has more than 800 patents and serves more than 3600 customers in more than 100 countries. We made an interview with Erwin Devloo, Marketing Communications Manager at Picanol. Devloo said that the company’s greatest success in the industry depends on its stable way of working. Picanol made an appearance at ITMA 2019 with its machines. In addition to 5 new airjet weaving machines, we also presented 5 rapier weaving machines with many new developments.
Furthermore, a rapier machine in Jacquard execution will be on display at the Bonas booth and a terry airjet at the Stäubli booth. OmniPlus-i is definitely the benchmark in airjet weaving. This further builds on the solid base of nearly 40 years of experience in airjet weaving, during which over 100,000 airjet machines have so far been shipped.
What is Picanol’s philosophy in designing its products?
We want to make machinery but not only machinery and complete service package for customers. So that’s our slogan ‘Let’s grow together.’ It is really working out and therefore the new machine is based on four principles: Smart Performance, Sustainability Inside, Driven by Data, Intuitive Control. The machine is completely digitized. We want to use this data to make the machine self-learning and we put sensors everywhere, and then use this data to correct to error. In terms of sustainability, we produce machines with energy savings and as little waste as possible.
What have been your company’s biggest achievements over the past 12 months?
The biggest achievement is to continue the way we are working. We try to keep the service for customers. We try to give them service that they very much need. And therefore we have everywhere in world, and important textile industry. We don’t work with an agent there, we have our own people.
In terms of export market, what is the importance of Turkey for your company?
It is very important. You know Turkey has some problems but we hope it will be solved in the next months. But as I said Turkey is very important. That’s why we are attending the exhibitions in Turkey.
What are your customers increasingly requesting in terms of textile and weaving machinery?
At the moment, weaving cost important for them, of course. So how can we attribute to reduce the costs first of all make machine consume less or perform more with the same energy consumption. Secondly we make sure that the waste is as minimal as possible and making the machines reliable also so that we don’t have spare parts consumption, low maintenance, preventive maintenance.
Interview: Dilek Hayırlı
