Italian sock knitting machine manufacturer Busi Giovanni has reorganised its full range of knitting machines into three distinctive lines in order to help its customers’ investment and decision-making process. As the demands of the sock and hosiery markets continue to evolve, Busi Giovanni has made considerable advances in developing new technology and upgrading its existing models. It offers an expanding portfolio of specialist knitting machines, ranging from technology for the production of children’s socks to single cylinder knitting machines, equipped with dial needles for the production of medical compression socks in Compression Classes 1, 2 and 3.
Going forward, the full range of machines has now been divided into three distinctive lines: Gold, Platinum, and Medical in order to help customers decide the type of machines needed for their socks. The Gold line includes Busi’s superior sock-knitting machines for first-class socks for babies, children, and adults (both women and men) positioned in the Premium market segment.
These machines offer a number of advantages over other machines in the market such as systems with needles in the dial that can guarantee very high precision when knitting true rib, which, the company says, is recognised as the high quality true rib worldwide.
Also possible on these machines is a fully automatic switch between terry and plain fabric, i.e. without any mechanical setup (zero labour costs), no requirement to adjust the gauge and machine’s centre periodically (zero labour costs), and machines equipped with the company’s latest Rimaglio 3.0 toe- closing unit, which can be applied onto all Busi machines up to gauge 26G.
Further benefits of machines in the Gold line include high gauges with terry (selected terry for model J Terry) and true rib, high quality raw materials such as solid steel and aluminum alloys (i.e. no plastics parts), and no gap in the pattern when switching from welt to the leg during transfer phase.
The next category is Busi’s Platinum Line, which includes sock-knitting machines that can be used to knit any kind of highly sophisticated socks that are positioned in the Premium market segment.
Platinum machines include all the benefits of the Gold Line machines whilst offering additional benefits such as: broad rib socks with or without terry and 4 pattern colours (including the Doppio, Doppio Terry and 500 Doppio models), and two layers socks with selected terry, true rib and 5 pattern colours such as the Twin Layer model.
For the Medical Machines, Busi offers its Busi Medical, which is a high production single cylinder knitting machine, equipped with dial needles for the production of medical compression socks in Compression Classes 1, 2 and 3. This is the only medical machine in the market able to knit true rib, as well as embroidery patterns in 5 colours plus the ground.
Further advantages include plating capability, both sandwich terry and selected terry, and the Rimaglio 3.0 automatic stich-by-stich toe-closing device which is available on machines knitting gauges up to 26G.
