The export value of China sewing machinery products recently touched the mark of US $ 2.25 billion. India topped the charts of being the biggest importer of Chinese sewing machinery with US $ 260 million, which accounted for the 11.60 per cent of the total exports value of China. Clearly evident of India being the biggest importer of Chinese sewing machines, depicts the trust and services the Chinese brands offer. Also in the run is Vietnam, with value worth US $ 203 million (9.07 per cent of total China’s exports value). Whereas, Bangladesh stood much lower in this list with US $ 64 million i.e. 2.87 per cent of China’s total exports value. In this series, Team StitchWorld presents the top 10 Chinese sewing machine brands that have its long existence in manufacturing hubs like Vietnam, Bangladesh, India and more.
TYPICAL
TYPICAL International Corporation offers single-needle high-speed lockstitch sewing machine, double-needle high-speed lockstitch sewing machine, flat-lock high-speed sewing machine, and more TYPICAL also has four R&D centres in Germany and its brand VETRON contains sewing and fusing machines and is mainly used for automobile seats, leather products and thick materials. In India, it is distributed in India by EH Turel & Company. Its machines are marketed in Bangladesh by South East Exim Ltd.
Jack
Established in 2003, Jack Sewing Machine Co. Ltd., is leading in global sales with the absolute advantage of lockstitch, overlock and interlock sewing machines. Jack also manufactures and markets Topcut Bullmer, the leading manufacturer of automatic cutters and spreaders, which it took over in the year 2009. Its distributor in India is IIGM Pvt. Ltd. and in Bangladesh, it is marketed by Jack Bangladesh Ltd. and Smart Tech Pvt. Ltd.
MAQI
MAQI’s main products are lockstitch, overlock, interlock, chainstitch, etc. The Indian agents of MAQI sewing machines are Sunny Sales, Balaji Sewing Machine Pvt. Ltd., Sleek Corporation, and Selvam Engineering. The company has a liaison office in Bangladesh and its products in the country are marketed by R.K. Sewing Machine & Servicing Centre.
Hikari
Hikari (shanghai) Precise Machinery Science & Technology Co. Ltd. is one of the world’s largest manufacturing and researching centres of industrial sewing machines. Nguyen Huy Hoang Trading & Service Co. Ltd.; Viet Trung Hieu Trade & Service Co. Ltd.; Cong Ty Tnhh Dich Vu Vathuong Mai Viet Yen; and Tan Hung Duc Sew Equipment Company are their authorized distributors in Vietnam. While in Bangladesh their agents are Sewmak and Orient International.
HIGHLEAD
Shanghai Biaozhun Hailing Sewing Machinery Co., Ltd. is specialized in producing and selling “HIGHLEAD” brand sewing machines. With ISO 9001:2000 certification, the brand’s products are marketed in India By HCA Garment Machinery Pvt. Ltd.
Gemsy
Zhejiang Gemsy Mechanical and Electrical Co. Ltd. produces more than 300 kinds of sewing machines covering fields like knitting clothing, suits, shirts, silk, home textiles, shoes, bags, etc. SGSB Group Co. Ltd. established a JV with Gemsy and is now known as SG & Gemsy. Macro International is India’s agent for the company. It has a service centre in Uttara, Bangladesh.
Zoje
Zoje’s products is marketed in India, it is marketed by HCA. Its products are categorized into 14 major series like lockstitch, interlock, overlock, twin needle, bar-tacking, zigzag, buttonhole, button sewing, blind stitch, cylinder bed, feed-off-the-arm and more. In India, its agent is HCA Garment Machinery Pvt. Ltd. while Bangladesh sales is handled by Zoje Sewing Machine Co. Bangladesh Ltd.
Euromac
Euromac offers automatic sewing machines for various operations in jeans and trousers, like jeans pocket setter, bottom hemming, automatic button punching, jeans side seamer, automatic serging unit, classic trouser side seamer, double needle lockstitch machine, and more. Euromac Asia Ltd. handles sales of machines in Bangladesh.
Richpeace
Richpeace Group sewing equipment include single head automatic sewing machine-head lifting, non-stop automatic sewing machine, large area automatic sewing machine and more. The company has its service offices in Noida and Bangalore (India); Dhaka, (Bangladesh); and Bing Duong and Hanoi (Vietnam).
Zusun
Zhejiang Zusun Sewing Machine Co. Ltd. specializes in feed-off-the-arm machine series, blind stitch machine series and the various kinds of special sewing machines. The Max & Zusun Corporation/Sony Corporation are the company’s agents in Bangladesh.