Speaking to Knitting Industry earlier this year, Lonati Sales Director Mark Frost revealed
that Lonati was in fact putting considerable resources into its GOSHOES initiative with
a specialist team of designers and research and development engineers. Mr Frost also disclosed that Lonati is currently carrying out R&D into a complete shoe manufacturing
line.
The Lonati Group also offers shoe upper machines through its sister Santoni Group (see
Santoni introduces X machine for footwear).
Double cylinder with automatic toe-closing
Other novelties that stood out amongst the vast range of Lonati machines on show at ITMA
Asia + CITME, were the 3.5-inch diameter, 200 needle, double cylinder DC88-HJ for jacquard
socks and the 3.5-inch, 120 needle, double cylinder DC88-E136HX3 for jacquard baby
socks. Both machines were fitted with Lonati¡¯s automatic toe closing technology.
