Knitting Machinery Spare Parts for Textile Machinery

Knitting machinery spare parts span everything from a two-millimetre spring to a complete cylinder: the knitting elements that form loops (needles, sinkers, jacks and loop forming elements), the springs that return and tension a hundred small mechanisms, the fineblanked and stamped parts inside feeders and selectors, and the cylinders and dials that carry the needles. This page is the section's overview for the trade — the specialist groups whose production is knitting parts, and how their ranges divide.

The Part Families

Loop forming elements are the consumable heart: they meet the yarn and the needle on every course, and are made to fine tolerances in hardened steels. Springs are the silent family — small, specified by rate and endurance, and fatal to a mechanism when one tires. Fineblanked and stamped parts provide the flat precision components of selectors, feeders and cam mechanisms. The Kern-Liebers group covers the first three families from one organisation: 34 companies worldwide producing springs, fineblanked and stamped parts and knitting elements, with approximately 4,000 employees. Cylinders stand apart as capital parts: Taiwan (Quanzhou) Jiasheng Classic Precision Knitting Cylinder Co. produces knitting cylinders noted for high quality and reasonable price, from Quanzhou City in Fujian province.

Sourcing Knitting Spares

Every knitting spare is specified against the machine: maker, model, diameter, gauge and part number. The economics of the trade favour depth of stock and catalogue breadth — a knitting mill runs several machine types, and a supplier whose range crosses elements, springs and stamped parts (as Kern-Liebers' does) or who specialises completely in cylinders (as Jiasheng does) saves the mill a fragmented search per breakdown. The detailed pages of this section take each family in turn — springs, fineblanked stamped parts, stamped bent parts, loop forming elements and cylinders each have their own page and suppliers. Enquiries to Jiasheng can also be made by e-mail at knitting5299@yahoo.com.cn.

Companies Supplying Knitting Machinery Spare Parts