Presenting Mayer & Cie. Circular knitting Business Unit our performance for your profit

Greetings from the Management Dear Reader, Clothes made of jersey fabric accompany us day by day. We wear and love them as nightwear and underwear. We use fashionable shirts and hip sportswear as an expression of our personality, our individuality even. Yet the machines that manufacture the material for our favourite clothing are seldom in the limelight. Except for us. We have focused for over a century on the design, manufacture and sale of circular knitting machines. That is why our machines can well be a few revs faster than others. We are proud of that - and of the fact that it will be hard...

What Drives Us A family firm, global market leader in circular knitting, an innovation driver… Mayer & Cie. is much more than just a few revs per minute faster. Our recipe for success is the combination of a clear commitment to performance and a unique corporate culture that is reflected in our values. Leading edge We are leaders in the circular knitting world. For over a century we have set standards, be it by developing new processes and new approaches or by means of our depth of production, our know-how and our market knowledge. That is why we are able to set trends ourselves to some extent...

Where We Want to Be One Step Ahead Taking the Lead for Our Customers Where we want to be is easily explained: we want to stay where we are, always a step ahead. At first glance, that may seem trivial but it is a major challenge. As in top-level sport we must constantly improve our performance if we are to maintain our lead. That is anything but easy. We place our innovation at the disposal of our customers. They can rely on their Mayer machines to make full use of all meaningful current technological opportunities. Over seven per cent of our employees work in design and development to ensure...

What We Manufacture Mayer Machines Always Do the Job We make circular knitting machines. Our customers appreciate them for their long service life, their reliability and the high quality of the fabrics they knit. They are used in a wide range of sectors: in fashion, linen, sports- and leisurewear just as in the automobile industry and as home textiles, carrier materials and technical textiles. A trendy casual shoe upper can as easily have been made by a Mayer machine as can the elastic cover of a mattress. A little over a third of these machines have only been in the range since 2010 at the earliest....

What We Are Known For Relanit Being Revolutionarily Reliable We have over 80 years experience of making circular knitting machines. Over the decades we have revolutionised circular knitting more than once. OVJA We have sold machines belonging to the OVJA family since the 1960s. Probably the bestknown machine in the range is to this day the OVJA 36. In 1967 it was the first machine capable of producing E 24 gauge jacquard pattern. Today our OVJA portfolio consists of 16 models, some with double electronics, a transfer unit or three-way technology. That is why our OVJAs can produce a wide range...

How We Are Positioned Head Office The company’s head office has always been in the Tailfingen district of Albstadt, which accounts for the ‚T‘ in our logo and in the firm’s abbreviated name MCT. Most of our employees work in Albstadt where Admin, Sales, R&D, Assembly and Parts Production are located. Subsidiaries Since 2011 we have had a factory in the Czech Republic that was enlarged significantly in 2016. At Mayer & Cie. CZ we have a small team of developers, too. The final assembly of certain machines and the production of knitting heads for Chinese machines are also undertaken there. Our...

Who We Are Independent by Conviction We are a Swabian family firm, wholly owned by the family since it was founded in 1905 and wholly managed by its owners, now in the fourth generation. That has a lasting, sustainable effect. The Mayer & Cie. Family “Family” is one of our corporate principles in that the firm has long been a part of the family - and vice-versa. All of us – employees, proprietors and products – are a Mayer & Cie. family that also includes our trading and longstanding business partners. That leads to ties that can last for longer than a generation. With some of our trading partners...

Where We Come From Eight men found Vereinigte Mechanische Werkstätten Mayer & Cie. in Tailfingen, now part of Albstadt. The founding fathers included two Mayers, Johannes and Johann Georg Mayer, which is why the company bears their name. Until the late 1920s the firm concentrates on manufacturing French circular frames. 1905: Circular Loopwheel Machine 1938: First Circular Knitting Machine Mayer & Cie. opens a sales and service branch in Shanghai that in 2015 becomes Mayer & Cie. China (MCN). It handles the final assembly of machines specially designed for the local market. Mayer & Cie. opens...

What Others Say about Us Florian Mey Florian Mey, Managing Director, Mey GmbH, Albstadt - Germany: Ping-Wen Wu, President Yuang Ling Knitting Industrial, Changhua - Taiwan: „We like the fact that Mayer & Cie. is highly innovative. That makes us develop new fabrics for our own underwear production in close cooperation with our knitting machine manufacturer.“ „ I started working in the industry in 1970 and since then, I’ve seen quite a few machines. Overall, I definitely like the quality of machines ‘Made in Germany’ best – and that means Mayer machines. “ Mohammed Abdul Jabbar Cenap Aktepe Mohammed...

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