Japan’s Shima Seiki enters Sri Lankan apparel industry

Japan’s top global player in the fabric cutting quality product industry, Shima Seiki, is going places, venturing into the Sri Lankan market with its P-CAM technology through its local distributor Tajima Colombo Ltd. which will bring value addition to the local market which is a hub for lingerie.

Shima Seiki’s cutting-edge products are expected to be in big demand in view of the fact that Sri Lanka’s lingerie enjoying a huge export market running into over a billion dollars annually for their quality production, even catering to US lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret which recently announced its plans to source even more from Sri Lanka over the coming years.

Leading the way is MAS Holdings, South Asia’s largest supplier of niche market intimate wear, including the market hit Amante.

Local distributor Tajima announced that Shima’s original and most sophisticated Japanese P-CAM fabric cutting mechanism now offers optimal cutting solutions for the Sri Lankan apparel industry with all its expertise.

According to the Director/CEO of Tajima Colombo, Hijaz Hassan, Shima Seiki’s P-CAM technology with its vast experience in knit related products, is expected to bring the leading edge technology to support Sri Lankan customer strategies.

Founded in 1962 in Wakayama, Japan, Shima Seiki, the market leader in the Japanese domestic market for decades, is also the global giant for glove knitting, sweaters and whole garment knitting machines worldwide. Recognising diverse customer expectations, Shima has stepped up, focusing on this current market trend and requirement in a continued unique service of high value-added products from the most advanced modern technologies.

P-CAM machines are known for their highly sophisticated cutting mechanism with a reciprocating knife for precision cutting through fabrics up to three inches in thickness. It will therefore be useful, particularly to the Sri Lankan knitting and bra industry, when it comes to cutting small components and intricate shapes in such detailed cutting like sharp corners and notches. In this respect, P-CAM offers precise accuracy and quality through its highly sophisticated fabric cutting mechanism. It has as a result brought about an alternative to conventional dye cutting and molding processes.

“Shima Seiki, in recognising the market trend and its highly cost conscious environment guarantees cost-performance using less electrical consumption with less maintenance remarkably to suit the uncompromising charges in servicing and spare part replacements which is another important novel feature, “ the Tajima CEO said. Significantly, the multi-ply P-CAM machines serve as the ideal choice for flexible, high volume production in a new era of global apparel production. Providing comprehensive support, its after sales service extends from extensive training programs to sources of inspiration through the latest trend information offering diverse ways enriching the total Shima Seiki experience.

Shima Seiki is making inroads in to the Sri Lankan apparel market with its world renowned reputation for an array of P-CAM series single and multi-ply fabric cutting machines which are famous for their high efficiency, productivity and quality. As it is, the improved modern P-CAM now offers a choice of wider selections of cutting widths and thickness for added production flexibility.

Another Shima Seiki boost for the local cutting industry with Tajima is the latest introduction of the P-CAM 120C Supersonic cutter with a carbon fibre cutting facility using ultrasonic sound waves. Tajima Colombo Ltd. will shortly exhibit and demonstrate its main model of CAD/CAM products, Automatic Cutting System and SDS-ONE at its private show ‘simplified mechatronics’, to be held at Colombo Hilton residencies from 28-29 June from 10 a.m. onwards.