Stitch-bonded technology, together with its variants, MALIVLIES, MALIWATT, KUNIT and MULTIKNIT, have been successfully established on the market for many decades as an innovative process for producing mechanically bonded nonwovens. By modifying and engineering the process, nonwoven products can be manufactured for virtually every type of industrial application. Large volumes of stitch-bonded textiles are used in the automotive industry in particular, since they have better physical characteristics than the fibrous nonwovens produced by other well-known techniques.
For many years, the machine technology for producing stitch-bonded nonwovens has been perfected and distributed worldwide by KARL MAYER Malimo.

As of 1 January 2012, the technology will be transferred to the company, Christian Pinkert Textilmaschinen.
This family run company, which was set up in 1992, serves customers all over the world and manufactures special machines for niche markets in the textile industry. In particular, Christian Pinkert has taken on a wealth of expert knowledge through working with the Malimo machine technology in the past. In addition to its own know-how and skill, this company also cooperates closely with the Chemnitz University of Technology and the Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut (Saxon Textile Research Institute) when developing its products.
As a KARL MAYER licence holder, Christian Pinkert will manufacture the entire range of Malimo stitch-bonding machines in future, including the MALIVLIES, MALIWATT, KUNIT and MULTIKNIT machines – and this includes all the optimised and customised features. KARL MAYER will continue to provide key areas of expertise for the machines, and will transfer all its knowledge of the Malimo technology to the new manufacturer.
In addition to producing the machines, Christian Pinkert will also take on the marketing and distribution, assembly, commissioning, servicing and spare parts provision. And the company will also provide customer support when developing products. This will guarantee the seamless transfer of the Malimo technology.