The company Thümling Textilmaschinen
Marcus Thümling has preserved his childhood fascination with technology to this day. After training with a German textile machine manufacturer, he worked in development and graduated from technical school. In 1992, he founded his own company after years in development. Marcus Thümling bought textile machines from around the world, repaired and overhauled them, or converted them to meet specific customer requirements. The company kept growing along with its market. The sale of used textile machines and the integration of retrofit components are integral parts of the company’s portfolio and remain important pillars today.
The owner’s know-how and many years of experience, always driven by an irrepressible urge to invent, led to various in-house developments.
In addition to the development of new warp knitting machines for technical textiles, Marcus Thümling developed a machine for producing knit fabrics made from natural fibers, especially wool.
“I am familiar with the global market because I used to work in it. I am aware of what machines on the market can and cannot offer. Conventional machines can’t handle all fibres, and they certainly cannot cope with different natural fibres.”
Development of a warp knitting machine that can knit natural fibres such as linen, silk, cotton, and in particular wool perfectly into textiles took some time, but the result is now available. All the efforts, setbacks, and intensive testing and optimizations have paid off: the result is groundbreaking, unique, and forward-thinking. The production of merino wool knitted jersey fabric of exceptional quality is now possible and offers the potential to elevate merino wool clothing to a new level.
