SUPERIOR Titanium-coated Needles for ALL Home Machines

Titanium-coated needles have been available for longarm and industrial machines for many years; however, these are the first titanium-coated Topstitch style needles made for home machines. Superior Threads (USA) and Organ Needle Company (Japan) have applied the latest technology of titanium-coated needles to the Topstitch style for home machines. These new titanium-coated  needles have an ultra thin coat of titanium nitride layered on the surface to extend their productive life by five to eight times that of conventional needles.  Most professionals recommend changing the needle every project or every 8 hours of usage.  Imagine having a needle that will last 40 to 60 hours.  This is equivalent to saving 80% on the cost of needles.

The Topstitch needle is the most common needle used today by professionals and educators. Recommended for piecing, quilting, embroidery, and construction--can be used for ALL thread types including metallics. Often called the Magic Needle!

A needle catalog may contain over 4,000 different sewing machine needles -- needles for dozens of machine types and hundred of applications.  Multiply those by 6 to 10 sizes each and it’s easy to see why there are more than 4,000 different needles.   
In the longarm quilting world, one of the most popular needles is the MR (Multiple Range) needle, originally made by Singer.  This needle was designed with less flex to accommodate sewing through multiple layers and thereby reduce needle breakage.  Another needle, the SAN (Special Application Needle) was developed as a multi-directional needle by Groz-Beckert company.  SAN needles were developed to accommodate computerized machines and longarm machines because both require multi-directional stitching.  Groz-Beckert bought the Singer industrial sewing machine needle division about 10 years ago and has recently integrated these two needle designs.  As a result, we now have Multi Range and Multi-directional functions combined into a single needle type.  These new needles are available with titanium-coating and last 5-8 times longer than standard needles.  They are packaged in green plastic cases and are labeled using the MR designation. They are available in sizes ranging from MR 2.0 (#70) to MR 6.0 (#23) with the most common sizes for quilting being MR 3.0 through MR 4.5. 

In the past, there have been differences in cross reference guides for the MR system and the number system needle sizes.  Now that Groz-Beckert needles and Singer needles are under the same roof, the absolutely correct cross reference system supplied by the manufacturer is available below:  
Needle Size 
#14 = MR 3.0 
#16 = MR 3.5 
#18 = MR 4.0 
#19 = MR 4.5 
#20 and #21 = MR 5.0