Santex Rimar Group S.r.l.
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Santex Rimar Group S.r.l.
Località Colombara 50
36070 Trissino Vicenza
Italy
Telephone+39 0445 176 1444
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SANTEX RIMAR GROUP is the partner of choice for weaving, textile finishing, technical textile and green solutions.
CAVITEC
Machines for coating, laminating, impregnation and prepreg
Cavitec is the world leader in prepreg system for composite products for the aerospace, automotive, wind-power industries and for the resin impregnation of carbon, kevlar or glass fibre. All leading prepreg manufacturers work with Cavitec lines and each plant is tailor-made to specific customer requirements.
Caratsch ag, founded in 1962, and Villars ag, founded in 1983, merged in 1996 as Cavitec, the premier supplier of machines and plants for coating, laminating and impregnating.
ISOTEX
Coating, embossing and printing machines
With more than fifty years of experience Isotex offers its global customers not only a wide range of products but also innovative and customized solutions.
Isotex was founded in Italy in 1957 as a manufacturer of textile machines while the continuous development of advanced coating and laminating system based on wet coat technology for synthetic leather, airbags, carpets and other technical applications, has earned Isotex a worldwide reputation.
SMIT
Weaving machines since 1938
Globally recognized as a forerunner in weaving technology, SMIT is a manufacturer of weaving machines established in 1938 and renowned for its high standard levels of innovation, productivity and versatility, ensuring competitiveness throughout a large variety of applications.
In 1958 SMIT presented the very first flexible-ribbon weaving machine of the world.
The technology characterizing today SMIT rapier loom machines includes rapier weft insertion for home textiles, garments, terry towels and customized solutions to produce special technical fabrics.
SMIT expertise develops structural architecture concepts involving the whole machine project – mechanics, electronics and communication systems – to provide the most advantageous weaving machine configurations to produce high quality fabrics for any sector, widening weaver’s market access in an extensive variety of arrangement options.
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Our Products

Cavitec Cavimelt PP
Cavimelt Plug and Play
Integrated within the machine frame are both the un- and re-winder, accepting rolls up to 600 mm in diameter.
Conversion to the alternative tensionless contact unwinding mode is performed simply through removal of the quickly detachable brush expander rollers. All well-known adheseves in thermoplastic and reactive Hotmelts are applicable.
Delivered pre-wired, assembled and tested, CAVIMELT P+P stands for Plug+Play because of short installation and commissioning time.

2FAST Weaving Machine
High Speed Weaving Machine 2FAST: Compact design for competitive performance
FAST stands for Flexible Advanced Shuttleless Technology.
The brand new Smit high speed rapier loom designed and manufactured in Italy globally premiered at ITMA EUROPE 2019 in Barcelona and struck the attention of the most advanced manufacturers.
Unleash the full potential of free flight with 2FAST!
FAST AND EASY
2FAST is the most compact loom of the market:
- Change the article quickly and with zero efforts
- Simply access the lowest front of the machine
- Save space in the weaving department
- denim or jeans manufacturing machine optimization
- Original spare parts quickly available worldwide
YOUR LONG-TERM INVESTMENT
The “Robust Design” methodology guarantees the longest machine life and the lowest spare parts consumption
Frame stiffness +20%

Isotex Isobag
Air-bag: safety gains ground
Safety and reliability are the main features of air-bags that need to perform at the highest standards under all circumstances.
Precision, state of the art technology and reproducibility allow our customers to achieve the highest quality standards. Isotex is the leader in complete airbag coating lines. Innovation is our answer to the increasing demand of quality and we have a long history of success in this sector. Isotex has been following from the beginning the development of the quality standards and the technical requirements of this industry achieving outstanding levels in the qualification process.

Cavitec Cavipreg
Prepreg machine
CAVIPREG can be used for the impregnation of various types of glass and carbon fiber materials, fabrics, nonwovens and papers, as intermediate products for PCB’s and for structural composites for the aircraft and space industry.
Lines to produce Prepregs made of fibers such as glass, carbon or aramid impregnated with polymer based resins as Epoxy or Phenol. Prepregs are base materials for composites for the Electronics industry (printed circuit boards), Aerospace and Aeronautics, Sporting goods and Wind energy industry.

Isotex Isolab
Laboratory and pilot lines for coating, impregnation, lamination, printing
Isolab is designed for the production of samples of a very wide range of products and setting of real production parameters.
Isolab flexible configuration allows the users to match physical and mechanical specifications of the final products.