The most successful rapier weaving machine in recent history has undergone a new evolution. The R9500EVO comes to the market with significant improvements that further enhance textile mastery, eco-efficiency, performance through digitalization, and easy weaving.

The special machine’s structure, in fact, ensures the lowest vibrations of its range thus leading to outstanding reliability and reduced operating costs. The R9500EVO extraordinary resistance to stress enables the weaver to benefit from key advantages, such as reduced deterioration of moving mechanical parts and a very low energy loss. As testified by the Itema Customers, for equal performance the R9500EVO is economically more sustainable compared to other loom models on the market.

Along with superior textile performances and fabric quality, this aspect makes the R9500EVO as the ideal machine to weave prestigious and high-end technical fabrics.

Moreover, the R9500EVO – already renowned for its user-friendliness – has been further optimized to ensure the best user-experience ever, thanks to the brand-new EVOConsole and the new front cover with integrated pushbutton panels.

Dedicated devices have been developed to excel in the weaving of technical fabrics, adding to the already excellent R9500EVO base sturdiness and flexibility, through key reinforcements and core advancements.

Depending on the application, the R9500EVO can be equipped with optimized devices to get superior sensibility to weave even the most delicate weft and warp monofilament yarns, maximum sturdiness to easily handle the heaviest fabrics and best-in-class performances in terms of fabric quality and machine efficiency.

Technical features:

1) Considerable Energy Saving

2) EVOConsole

3) New Front Cover with Integrated Pushbutton Panels

4) Itema Rapier Weft Transfer System

• SK EVO Weft Transfer with guided rapiers and hooks. Engineered for speed, provides high performances and superior fabric quality.
• FPA - Free Positive Approach - EVO Weft Transfer featuring a race board with no guiding elements in the shed, it combines the versatility of a positive rapier system with higher performances and efficiency, enabling to weave even the most delicate monofilament yarns

5) Multiple choice of Weft Cutters

• MiCut

MiCut Motorized Weft Cutter – developed by Itema – is driven by an independent motor, allowing different cutting times for each weft/color, eliminating the time-consuming and accurate operation to find the best possible compromise to set one single cutting time for different weft yarns, resulting in:

• Rotocut Weft Cutter featuring a high-precision rotary blade, which cuts all the weft yarns at the same moment is the preferable choice in case of simple fabric constructions.

6) Multiple Options of Press Rollers

4) Multiple options of Back-Rest Roller

• Light Weight Back-Rest Roller designed to compensate the lack of elasticity of specific yarns
• Double Back-Rest Roller with an increased cylinder diameter to optimally tolerate the warp yarns high tension
• Warp tensioner for an optimized warp tension

8) Full Width Temple

9) iSAVERtech

The one-of-a-kind mechatronic device capable to completely eliminate the waste selvedge on the left-hand side of the fabric, leading to significant costs savings, reduced raw materials and resources waste, and thus contributing to sustainable weaving.

10) Mechanical Chop Cutters for Fiberglass

11) ACTIVEBRK

Implemented between pre-feeders and weft insertion system, the Itema ActiveBRK Electronic Weft Brake allows a more gentle weft treatment reducing the weft tension peak thanks to different braking force levels that can be set directly from the machine console.

12) Multiple Options of Tuckers

• Itema Standard or AIR-T Pneumatic Tuckers

Pneumatic tuckers in their standard configuration allow excellent selvedge quality and the possibility to weave every narrow tucked-in selvedges. The Itema AIR-T Pneumatic Tuckers ensure superior performance while weaving a wide range of yarns.

• Itema MEC-T Mechanical Tuckers

Itema proprietary technology, the MEC-T Mechanical Tuckers represent a tangible and versatile solution, ideal for weaving a wide range of fabrics without the need of compressed air.

Main Itema MEC-T highlights are:

UniRap embodies versatility and provides endless weaving possibilities. Combining the advantages of a positive rapier weft insertion with the gentle yarns treatment ensured by the free flight transfer system, UniRap enables complex fabrics weaving with practically no limitation.

The absence of the weft exchange thanks to the positive rapier weft transfer featuring an open patented rapier system allows the weaver to process the widest range of weft yarns with maximum textile efficiency.

Ranging from high tenacity monofilament yarns, passing through the widest range of carbon-based yarns, up to polyester and polypropylene tape yarns, UniRap provides the possibility to weave complex technical fabrics.

Based on reliable and user-friendly electronic and mechanical platforms and providing excellent ease-of-use, UniRap clearly provides valuable benefits in terms of versatility, performances and reliability.

The insertion cycle is electronically driven, including the weft clamping settings and the flexible electronic architecture offers real-time management of the on-board automated devices.

Designed as an open platform, UniRap comes to the market in double version specifically developed for technical textiles weaving:

• The UniRap | P Weft Insertion System enables the effective insertion of carbon tapes and tape shaped yarns with no torsion up to 30 mm;
• The UniRap | G Weft Insertion System is ideal to weave the widest range of technical yarns.

What makes the two versions even more interesting is the possibility to switch the two weft transfers easily and quickly, thus providing weavers with two weft insertion technologies in one.

The Hercules reinforced machine structure, coupled with its textile flexibility, offers weavers the ideal weaving technology to producing the most demanding technical textiles, from extremely high density to finest fabrics.

One of a kind on the market, Hercules provides unbeatable textile flexibility thanks to its unique weft transfer system that enables the valuable possibility to switch easily and quickly from positive to negative rapiers, thus leading to superior textile efficiency when handling the widest range of weft yarns counts, from 20 up to 48,000 dtex, in single or multiple weft insertions configurations.

In the latest machine version, the shed geometry has been further optimized to maximize textile quality and to weave even the coarsest warp yarns. In fact, the sley stroke has been fine-tuned to assure a perfect control of the insertion even with high density fabrics.

Hercules is available in weaving width up to 6,200 mm and features a modular structure, customizable according to weavers’ textile needs. In fact, the basic machine structure is reinforced and can be equipped with different devices capable to reach a beating force up to 5.5 tons (depending on the reed width).

Moreover, Hercules is equipped with powerful motors designed to support the machine textile performances thus ensuring reliability and productivity.

Based on reliable and user-friendly electronic and mechanical platforms, the main machine’s movements are adjustable directly from the machine console.

The insertion cycle is electronically driven, including the weft clamping settings, and the flexible electronic architecture offers real-time management of the on-board automated devices.

Technical fabrics are the specialty of the legendary and unique P7300HP V8 due to the unparalleled versatility and reliability of its weft insertion system. The unmatchable uniqueness of the positive weft transfer consists in the single insertion driven by the projectile, which catches the weft and carries it directly with no exchanges, providing unmatched efficiency.

The P7300HP V8 continues to harness great interest from projectile weaving aficionados and represents an unbeaten and unbeatable benchmark for those looking to weave the very widest fabrics - up to 655cm weaving width - and high-specialty materials, such as agrotextile, geotextile and carpet backing fabrics. When it comes to weaving tape yarns, the Itema projectile weaving machine provides the highest performance compared to all the other insertion technologies in the market.

The projectile P7300HP V8 in its standard version is ready to weave a wide range of technical textiles.

Furthermore, the P7300HP V8 is available in RSP and R3 configurations, customized to weave high-end filter fabrics, heavy geotextiles and high-end conveyor belts. Reinforced to weave the most heavy textiles, the RSP version features a beat up force up to 11.000 N/m whilst the R3 version can reach up to 15.000 N/m.

The projectile P7300HP V8 guarantees unparalleled results when weaving specific, high quality technical fabrics, ensuring top fabric quality, significant cost savings and outstanding reliability.

Technical features:

• Unique Positive Weft Insertion System
• Sturdy machine structure
• No Weft and Warp Waste
• Adaptive Selvedges to minimize Yarn Wastage
• FPB - Fast Projectile Brake
• Reinforced Main Machine Drive and Sley Drive
• Reinforced warp tensioner versions
• Reinforced Warp let-off and take-up drives

The most successful rapier weaving machine in recent history has undergone a new evolution. The R9500EVO comes to the market with significant improvements that further enhance textile mastery, eco-efficiency, performance through digitalization, and easy weaving.

The special machine’s structure, in fact, ensures the lowest vibrations of its range thus leading to outstanding reliability and reduced operating costs. The R9500EVO extraordinary resistance to stress enables the weaver to benefit from key advantages, such as reduced deterioration of moving mechanical parts and a very low energy loss. As testified by the Itema Customers, for equal performance the R9500EVO is economically more sustainable compared to other loom models on the market.

Along with superior textile performances and fabric quality, this aspect makes the R9500EVO as the ideal machine to weave prestigious and high-end technical fabrics.

Moreover, the R9500EVO – already renowned for its user-friendliness – has been further optimized to ensure the best user-experience ever, thanks to the brand-new EVOConsole and the new front cover with integrated pushbutton panels.

Dedicated devices have been developed to excel in the weaving of technical fabrics, adding to the already excellent R9500EVO base sturdiness and flexibility, through key reinforcements and core advancements.

Depending on the application, the R9500EVO can be equipped with optimized devices to get superior sensibility to weave even the most delicate weft and warp monofilament yarns, maximum sturdiness to easily handle the heaviest fabrics and best-in-class performances in terms of fabric quality and machine efficiency.

Technical features:

1) Considerable Energy Saving

2) EVOConsole

3) New Front Cover with Integrated Pushbutton Panels

4) Itema Rapier Weft Transfer System

• SK EVO Weft Transfer with guided rapiers and hooks. Engineered for speed, provides high performances and superior fabric quality.
• FPA - Free Positive Approach - EVO Weft Transfer featuring a race board with no guiding elements in the shed, it combines the versatility of a positive rapier system with higher performances and efficiency, enabling to weave even the most delicate monofilament yarns

5) Multiple choice of Weft Cutters

• MiCut

MiCut Motorized Weft Cutter – developed by Itema – is driven by an independent motor, allowing different cutting times for each weft/color, eliminating the time-consuming and accurate operation to find the best possible compromise to set one single cutting time for different weft yarns, resulting in:

• Rotocut Weft Cutter featuring a high-precision rotary blade, which cuts all the weft yarns at the same moment is the preferable choice in case of simple fabric constructions.

6) Multiple Options of Press Rollers

4) Multiple options of Back-Rest Roller

• Light Weight Back-Rest Roller designed to compensate the lack of elasticity of specific yarns
• Double Back-Rest Roller with an increased cylinder diameter to optimally tolerate the warp yarns high tension
• Warp tensioner for an optimized warp tension

8) Full Width Temple

9) iSAVERtech

The one-of-a-kind mechatronic device capable to completely eliminate the waste selvedge on the left-hand side of the fabric, leading to significant costs savings, reduced raw materials and resources waste, and thus contributing to sustainable weaving.

10) Mechanical Chop Cutters for Fiberglass

11) ACTIVEBRK

Implemented between pre-feeders and weft insertion system, the Itema ActiveBRK Electronic Weft Brake allows a more gentle weft treatment reducing the weft tension peak thanks to different braking force levels that can be set directly from the machine console.

12) Multiple Options of Tuckers

• Itema Standard or AIR-T Pneumatic Tuckers

Pneumatic tuckers in their standard configuration allow excellent selvedge quality and the possibility to weave every narrow tucked-in selvedges. The Itema AIR-T Pneumatic Tuckers ensure superior performance while weaving a wide range of yarns.

• Itema MEC-T Mechanical Tuckers

Itema proprietary technology, the MEC-T Mechanical Tuckers represent a tangible and versatile solution, ideal for weaving a wide range of fabrics without the need of compressed air.

Main Itema MEC-T highlights are:

UniRap embodies versatility and provides endless weaving possibilities. Combining the advantages of a positive rapier weft insertion with the gentle yarns treatment ensured by the free flight transfer system, UniRap enables complex fabrics weaving with practically no limitation.

The absence of the weft exchange thanks to the positive rapier weft transfer featuring an open patented rapier system allows the weaver to process the widest range of weft yarns with maximum textile efficiency.

Ranging from high tenacity monofilament yarns, passing through the widest range of carbon-based yarns, up to polyester and polypropylene tape yarns, UniRap provides the possibility to weave complex technical fabrics.

Based on reliable and user-friendly electronic and mechanical platforms and providing excellent ease-of-use, UniRap clearly provides valuable benefits in terms of versatility, performances and reliability.

The insertion cycle is electronically driven, including the weft clamping settings and the flexible electronic architecture offers real-time management of the on-board automated devices.

Designed as an open platform, UniRap comes to the market in double version specifically developed for technical textiles weaving:

• The UniRap | P Weft Insertion System enables the effective insertion of carbon tapes and tape shaped yarns with no torsion up to 30 mm;
• The UniRap | G Weft Insertion System is ideal to weave the widest range of technical yarns.

What makes the two versions even more interesting is the possibility to switch the two weft transfers easily and quickly, thus providing weavers with two weft insertion technologies in one.

The Hercules reinforced machine structure, coupled with its textile flexibility, offers weavers the ideal weaving technology to producing the most demanding technical textiles, from extremely high density to finest fabrics.

One of a kind on the market, Hercules provides unbeatable textile flexibility thanks to its unique weft transfer system that enables the valuable possibility to switch easily and quickly from positive to negative rapiers, thus leading to superior textile efficiency when handling the widest range of weft yarns counts, from 20 up to 48,000 dtex, in single or multiple weft insertions configurations.

In the latest machine version, the shed geometry has been further optimized to maximize textile quality and to weave even the coarsest warp yarns. In fact, the sley stroke has been fine-tuned to assure a perfect control of the insertion even with high density fabrics.

Hercules is available in weaving width up to 6,200 mm and features a modular structure, customizable according to weavers’ textile needs. In fact, the basic machine structure is reinforced and can be equipped with different devices capable to reach a beating force up to 5.5 tons (depending on the reed width).

Moreover, Hercules is equipped with powerful motors designed to support the machine textile performances thus ensuring reliability and productivity.

Based on reliable and user-friendly electronic and mechanical platforms, the main machine’s movements are adjustable directly from the machine console.

The insertion cycle is electronically driven, including the weft clamping settings, and the flexible electronic architecture offers real-time management of the on-board automated devices.