A hundred needles sew patterns in the soft fabric in white thread at breathtaking speed. What sounds like the buzzing of a swarm of bees soon turns into something on which people spend around one third of their lives: a mattress, or to be more precise, a mattress cover.
These days, a mattress is more than simply something to sleep on. The quality concealed on the inside should also be visible on the outside – in softly curved lines, elegant diamond shapes, perfect circles and an almost infinite number of freehand patterns. Since millions of people want to sleep as comfortably as possible, the production of mattress covers depends on high speed and increasingly also on a high degree of flexible pattern design. Emil Stutznäcker GmbH & Co. KG uses new cylinder/valve combinations with ASI technology from Festo in their latest multi-needle quilting machines in order to be able to quickly switch from one pattern to the next.