Taking technology to a new level, Open Hybrid Lab Factory has installed modified multi-axial warp knitting machine powered by a leading German textile machinery giant – Karl Mayer, which is further developing this machine to enable fibre-reinforced constructions to suit the direction of force to be mass-produced.

Open Hybrid Lab Factory, the lightweight construction campus, was officially opened in   Wolfs burg on September 22, 2016 and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

It may be mentioned here the project – Kon Text that has been set up in order to achieve the desired results, focuses on separating the load-bearing carbon fibres from glass fibres with the multi-axial warp knitting machine, and bring them together at exposed sections. The project is being carried out in cooperation with CETEX, Germany.

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The machine is fitted with a warp yarn shogging module with two shogging units, which are arranged opposite to each other to enable them to also work crossed-over lapping, and guide the carbon-fibre material via tape guides to the knitting point. Up to 12 of these guide elements may be arranged in a block, and they may be moved together, individually or in specific groups.

The individual motor drives can be used to design the zones with the load-bearing carbon tapes. Moreover, the lapping construction can be achieved by the pattern-controlled movement of the shogging unit with two independent shog rows.

The multi-axial warp knitting machine with the new warp yarn shogging module went into operation at the Open Hybrid Lab Factory in the third quarter of fiscal 2016. It, further aims to integrate a weft yarn shogging module by the third quarter of current year.