Industrial sewing machines are heavy-duty and used in clothing and furniture upholstery industries. They can sew multiple layers of tough materials and are designed to perform one function. China is the major exporter of fabrics produced in industrial sewing, and refurbished machines are sold due to unpredictable demand.
The industrial sewing machine is a heavy-duty version of a standard household sewing machine and is used in clothing and other related industries, such as sewing furniture upholstery. One of the common uses for the industrial sewing machine is to sew a series of pockets in garments made from heavy canvas, such as denim for blue jeans. A typical industrial pocket machine can sew 2,000 pockets in an eight hour production run.
Heavy sewing volume requires an industrial sewing machine, designed to sew multiple layers of tough material, such as leather, canvas and vinyl, at once. Some sewing machines are advertised as industrial strength, but in reality, these are ordinary household sewing machines designed to handle heavier-than-normal materials. The internal gears and motors of a standard commercial, even industrial, sewing machine are too fragile for the heavy workloads worked out at the factory. An industrial machine is equipped with a clutch and a large servo motor.
Most sewing processes in industrial settings are assembly line based, meaning that a typical industrial sewing machine will be designed to perform only one function. Machines are sold and named according to the function they perform. Typical names for industrial machine classes include pocket stitchers, buttonholes, and programmable models. Programmable machines can store ten to thirty or more patterns in memory and typically have a sewing range of 12 by 6 inches (30.48 by 15.24 centimeters).
Manufacturers of industrial sewing machine equipment include firms from Hong Kong, Canada and France, with much of their exports going to the textile industry in India. The major world exporters of fabrics produced in industrial sewing since 2006 have been China, Hong Kong and Italy. The United States ranked eighth in exports immediately below Pakistan and Thailand and slightly above India in the same year. Industrial sewing products brought China 16 times more profit than the United States in 2006, with Chinese exports exceeding those of the other eight major countries combined and accounting for 65% of the total world apparel market.
Many industrial sewing machine units are also sold refurbished, as profits in the textile industry can be volatile due to short product life cycles and unpredictable demand. As labor rates in the textile industry have declined, much of the industrial equipment already in use has been shipped from industrialized countries to developing countries. This continues to fuel a very high demand for apparel globally. Developing country production rates have not been able to keep pace with this demand, however, due to slower capital investment in new industrial sewing facilities.
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