Rimar offers a line of equipment for shrinking knitted fabric. The key elements of a Rimar plant are a steam heated steel drum, a continuous felt belt, a counter-cylinder for guiding the belt and feeding fabric, and a fabric introduction element. The most novel aspect of the system is a double compacting treatment, where the fabric makes a second pass through the longitudinal compaction process, allowing the second side of the fabric to be treated in an identical way as the first. The second shrinking process increases shrinkage by 25 to 30 percent over a single shrinking passage, and has a fixing effect. Rimar offers two models: the KSL/240 Sanforknit compressive shrinkage line for open-width knitted fabric, and the Model TS/150 Sanforknit compactor for tubular knits.