Hari Chand Anand & Co. popularly known as HCA, one of the largest suppliers of technology for the garment manufacturing sector, recently organized a private show to showcase the latest in SWF embroidery machines at their showroom in New Delhi. HCA, which recently completed its 100 years in the business offering a wide range of industrial sewing and embroidery machines from the world’s leading manufacturers like Kansai Special, Highlead, ASS, SWF, Strobel, Yuho, Cutex, Grand and Mauser Spezial to name a few, is not just like any other technology providers, it has always excelled and followed the motto “Making Automation Affordable”.
The show dedicated to SWF, the brand name of SunStar Precision Co. Ltd. Korea established in 1974 and among the biggest players in the field of embroidery machines saw many leading garment manufacturers interacting with the technical team. Manufacturing embroidery machines ranging from single head to multi head, all with coiling, cording and sequin attachment devices, SWF has clients in more than 150 countries.
At the event, the company displayed the SWF TA series, multiple-head lockstitch taping & coiling embroidery machine with the SWF/MA-6 and the SWF/E Single Series (Compact). All the three machines were launched for the first time in India, with the focus on value addition at high-speed keeping in mind the changing dynamics of the Indian market.
The SWF TA series operating at 1200 RPM has been launched in competition to Tajima’s TLMX series already present in the Indian market. “The edge for us is the greater number of heads and variants,” says Hans Mun, Managing Director, SunStar – India. The machine comes in a total of 15 variants and heads ranging from 4 to 30, in-built with a dual-sequin attachment and dual-cording device.
“The TA series embroidery machine has been launched in competition with the Tajima TLMX series embroidery machines, already present in the Indian market. It comes in a total of 15 variants and heads ranging from 4 to 30, giving us the definite competitive edge,” says Hans Mun, Managing Director, SunStar – India
The energy efficient machine is already a successful product worldwide and apart from the basic features of upper thread catcher and hold-up mechanism, thread tension controller and noise filter, the machine also has advanced features like automatic selection of embroidery mode, automatic generation of zigzag swing data and easy replacement of various peripheral units.
“We have two manufacturing facilities, one in Korea and one in China. From the total of 27,000 parts of an embroidery machine, all the essential ones are made in Korea,” adds Hans Mun. However, the Korean pioneer also manufactures and sells Chinese manufactured embroidery machines for the customers seeking low-priced machines. “The new developments are bound to support the already successful range of SB Plus zero vibration and high speed embroidery machines in India and increase the market share of SWF,” avers Megha Anand, Director (Sales & Marketing), HCA.
