Karl Mayer Acquires Majority Stake In Liba

To utilise the joint strengths, measures will be taken immediately to work on a fast integration of Karl Mayer and LIBA.

On January 1, 2014 KARL MAYER will acquire the majority of the ownership of LIBA Maschinen fabrik GmbH, which in the future will be integrated into the KARL MAYER group. For decades KARL MAYER and LIBA have been the leaders in the development, manufacturing and distribution of warp knitting machines and machines for the production of technical textiles.

Both involved parties are convinced that with the combined high level of technical knowledge of the two companies, the long-term market leadership of German warp knitting machine manufacturing will be ensured. To utilise the joint strengths, measures will be taken immediately to work on a fast integration of the two companies. Until then the business activities on both sides will continue without changes, especially in regard to products and market coverage.

The President and owner of LIBA Maschinenfabrik GmbH, Karlheinz Liebrandt will continue to hold shares of the company. He will also keep his position as spokesperson of the company management. Marcus Kube is added to the management of the company from KARL MAYER´s side. There is agreement with Karlheinz Liebrandt that the Naila operation will remain as a high technology location.

Karl Mayer, a 70-year tradition
Something which began almost 70 years ago in Obertshausen has now become part of everyday lives. Textiles produced on KARL MAYER´s machines surround people the world over in both their private and professional lives, providing comfort, security and safety.

The success story of KARL MAYER, the company set up by Karl Mayer in 1937, began 10 years later with the production of tricot machines. Nowadays, this family run, German company leads the world in the warp knitting machine sector, and KARL MAYER also sets the standard in the textile world in warp preparation equipment for warp knitting and weaving.

The development of this textile world demands a global strategy: ´Worldwide customer-oriented´ is one of KARL MAYER´s most important objectives. In order to prosper in international markets, companies must think globally, and have a clear picture of their own strengths. A keen awareness of quality, expert engineering and innovative products are at the heart of KARL MAYER – and this is what makes its customers all over the world trust the company completely.

Karl Mayer´s joint success is based on this trust, together with the dialogue and close co-operation which it fosters with its customers. This is why KARL MAYER supplies machines tailor-made to very specific requirements. This makes its clients more and more successful, and better equipped to face the future -and it makes Karl Mayer experts in the textile chain.

The concepts of ´future´ and ´responsibility´ go hand in hand at KARL MAYER. KARL MAYER textile machines are highly-productive, absolutely precise and extremely reliable in operation. There is a great variety of application fields and a lot of associated requirements for the warp knitted fabrics. The vast spectrum of high-modern textiles requires very different basic conditions and diverse emphases in production. Considering the various materials and the – in part – highly-specialised final applications, it is obvious that merely one machine configuration cannot represent the solution for optimum quality and flexibility. KARL MAYER offers the possibility to decide between different machine concepts and construction series.

Thanks to KAMCOS® all the machines are easily operated by the modern touch-screen control. Furthermore, one can monitor and control them within the company network and exercise a remote diagnosis via the Teleservice. In spite of the various high-tech functions, its machi