For more than eighty years, Picanol (www.picanol.be) has played a pioneering role in the global textile industry and it is currently the world’s leading weaving machine manufacturer. Picanol develops, manufactures, and sells high-tech weaving machines based on airjet and rapier technology. Picanol offers upgrade kits, spare parts, training, troubleshooting services and also digital services for its weaving machines through PicConnect. Picanol has its headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) and it employs more than 1,200 people worldwide. Picanol is part of Picanol Group, a business unit of Tessenderlo Group (Euronext: TESB).