Groz-Beckert has launched an iPad app called myGrozBeckert for weaving, knitting, felting, tufting and sewing, which it says will keep textile manufacturers up to date on the company's product range and provide them with a set of useful conversion and calculation tools.

Weavers for example who want to convert yarn counts and determine healds, drop wire weights and the highest row densities of drop wires can do so quickly and flexibly with the myGrozBeckert app and the Toolbox.

"Along with all kinds of general information, constantly updated films and numerous brochures, the yarn gauge converter tool is a part of the free myGrozBeckert basic app," Groz-Beckert said in its latest newsletter.

"All further functions can be enhanced at any time via the additional app Toolbox. The activation of the entire Toolbox costs a mere one-off charge of 2.39 Euro. There are no other obligations," the German company adds.

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