Texprojekt Industieanlagen GmbH developed a plan to upgrade and modernize knit fabric manufacturer SAO Tulskij Trikotazh in Russia. Reconfiguration of SAO's Tula division's model development, flat bed knitting, cutting, and sewing departments for outerwear and innerwear (including ironing and embroidery) integrated machines from Universal, Wastema, Novakust, Hogess, Pfaff, Strobel, and KSM. The new large diameter rib circular knitting unit in SAO's Kireyevsk division features Terrot Knitting machines; Theis yarn dyeing machines; and Weiss, NTM Obermaier, and Gematex finishing machines. Overhaul of the plant increased output from 19,000 units of outerwear and 69.300 units of innerwear in 1998 to 63.500 units of outerwear and 127.800 units of innerwear in 1999.