The Steiger-Zamark Group was established in 1995 when the two companies, Steiger Ltd. and Zamark Srl merged. Both companies brought to the merger 50 years of expertise in the production of flat-knitting machines.

The Steiger company was founded by Mr. Robert Steiger in 1949 in Roanne (France) under the name of "Servo-Stop". Since the very beginning the Steiger company has always concentrated its research activities towards satisfying the particular needs of its customers. Another objective of the company at the time was to modernize and produce machines for knitting accessories and bandages. In 1963 the Steiger company moved to Vionnaz in Switzerland which is still the headquarter of the company today, and where the production of jacquard and punching machines was started. In the early seventies Steiger launched the first machines for producing elastic stockings and tubular articles for orthopaedic uses and acquired the textile division of the Böhringer company in Göppingen in Germany. The production and commercial distribution of the Ribomat/Autolinker was started in Vionnaz which allowed the use of genuine linking operations under conditions of high productivity. In the years 1980-1990, the Steiger company presented the well known Electra series of flat knitting machines for producing shaped knitwear and the various models in this range satisfied all the requirements of the market and its demanding customers. The series became a great success.
The Electra range of machines was replaced by the Vesta series in the early nineties. The Vesta machines have a new electronic needle selection system and many other important innovative features. The series was complemented by the "Model" programming system for processing knitted designs. In the mid nineties Steiger started to collaborate with the know Italian company "Zamark Srl" which was also engaged in building flat-knitting machines.

Zamark was founded in the early fifties in Somma Lombardo in Italy, where they started to build manually controlled flat-knitting machines in line with the needs of the domestic market at that time. The company developed very quickly in the early sixties, building up a commercial infrastructure which allowed them to serve the Italian market as it moved forward. Thus Zamark produced its first range of automatic knitting machine with the CPL model having a rear needlebed with racking facilities, high and low-butt needles and separation facilities for individual fabric panels. Zamark enlarged its range of new model and after 1970 introduced its first special machine for knitting Intarsia design. In 1989 Zamark presented its first electronic machine in this field, the ELJ-2/IN model.

After its merger with Steiger in 1995, the main objective of the Steiger-Zamark Group remained the enlargement of their own range of machines. Thus the group added to their program the T1+1 and A1+1 models for knitting accessories, the compact machines Vesta 130E and 3.130E and the tandem machines Vesta 1+1.240 and Vesta 2+2.240.

At ITMA '99 in Paris, Steiger-Zamark introduced a revolutionary note in the design of flat knitting machines by having on show the first multi-head machine with a separation of the front and back-bed cam carriage by eliminating the traditional cam carriage bow, and driving both cam carriage selections in full synchronization. The technological advance has made it possible to feed yarn to the yarn-carrier directly from above and to utilize motorized yarn-carriers, each carrier being driven individually by its own motor.

After the introduction of the four-head twin-system Multi machines, there followed in 2001 the Aries.3 model, a single head machines with three knitting system and in 2002 the Aries.6 model which has a double head with each head having three knitting systems.

In 2005 Steiger–Zamark launched a new and revolutionary concept in the building of flat knitting machines. New and high–tech advanced solutions and components were used for the economic production of knitwear by its new machine Gemini. This machine provides the end–users a perfect price/output ratio in a highly competitive market environment.

The ongoing presentation of numerous technological advances to the knitting industry and the growth of their own activities on an international level has made the Steiger-Zamark Group into a world leader in the building of the most advanced flat-knitting machines which are characterized by being economical and user-friendly and guaranteeing best quality in their day to day operations.