Rieter Celebrates Opening Of Chinese Facility

Switzerland-based Rieter Group recently invited more than 300 guests to celebrate the opening of a new facility in the Changzhou National Hi-Tech Development Zone in Changzhou, China. Activities included a formal ceremony, presentation of its D201 doubling machine, and a three-day open house for existing and prospective customers.

Rieter invested more than 50 million yuan (US$6.5 million) in the new facility, which consists of an office building; workshop for assembly and production; sheet metal workshop with state-of-the-art machinery and fully operational powder painting line; and showroom. The showroom displays Rieter textile products including blowroom, carding, draw frames and end-spinning machines, and will be used for spinning trials and customer and in-house training.

Left to right: Chen Shujin, vice president, China National Textile and Apparel Council; Stefan Hutter, sales manager, Rieter Textile Systems China; Wang Zhengping, vice mayor, Changzhou City; and Peter Gnaegi, CEO, Rieter Textile Systems

“We are convinced that the Chinese market needs high-quality and high-production machinery for top-end products and we can serve the market with the right products,” said Sigi Foehn, CEO, Rieter Textile Systems (Shanghai) Ltd. Rieter representatives added that the company will continue to invest in China and the Changzhou zone in particular, with the goal of increasing production capacity in the zone by three to four times in the coming years.

July/August 2007