About us

KARL MAYER is a mechanical engineering company that offers its own digital solutions in addition to a wide range of products and services of its sector. We are regarded as a technological pioneer in the textile machinery industry.

That's us 

Moving the textile world with innovation and customer focus

The name goes back to the company founder Karl Mayer. He founded the company in 1937, which developed into an intenational market leader in its sector. Our history is characterised by visionary strength, entrepreneurial courage and a drive to be successful.

 

Innovation, quality, and global presence,

This is what the KARL MAYER brand represents in the textile machinery manufacturing industry. 

Product portfolio:

With our machine portfolio, we serve a broad spectrum of solutions for textile machine construction:

  • Warp knitting machines (Tricot, Raschel, Lace and Double Needle Bar Maschines)
  • Warp preparation machines for weaving and warp knitting
  • Machines for technical textiles (composite and weft insertion machines)

BUSINESS UNITS

The organisation into business units helps us to place customer benefit at the centre of our solutions and to live entrepreneurship. Currently, we operate in the following business units.

WHAT DRIVES US

We are passionately committed to the success of our customers and to a better world.

We take a long-term approach in our actions, and create a professional environment where people are appreciated, which is good for our business: 

  • customer focus,
  • innovation and inspiration,
  • market leadership

WHAT MAKES US SPECIAL

  • 88

    Years Family business
  • 18

    Locations worldwide
  • 2500

    Employees worldiwde

OUR MANAGEMENT

Axel Wintermeyer

President of the Warp Knitting Business Unit at KARL MAYER

Enzo Paoli

President of the Warp Preparation Business Unit at KARL MAYER

Hagen Lotzmann

President of the Technical Textiles Business Unit at KARL MAYER

Christian Botschek 

President of global production at KARL MAYER

Karl J. Mayer

representative of the KARL MAYER Advisory Board and the Mayer family

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