Since its founding by Japanese inventor Sakichi Toyoda and his invention of the automatic loom, Toyoda Textile Machinery has developed, manufactured, and sold textile machinery, the majority of which has been supplied to customers outside Japan. The company manufactures two main categories of textile machinery: spinning machinery and weaving machinery. To keep up with the advancing needs of the market, the company continuously incorporates the latest technological developments, including control technology, mechatronics and IT, into its textile machinery. It is praised by customers around the world as an international leader, especially for its flagship air-jet loom, which boasts the No.1 share in the industry, but also for spinning machinery such as its ring spinning frames and roving frames. Toyoda Textile Machinery has a location in Charlotte, N.C.