The Saurer Group is pleased to announce Dr. Martin Folini as CEO of its business unit Schlafhorst and Zinser. These two innovative brands are the market leaders for roving and ring spinning, rotor spinning as well as winding with 2,000 employees working for it worldwide. Mr. Jan Röttgering will take over as the General Manager of Rotor Spinning within the business unit, allowing a higher focus on individual product lines.
Dr. Folini has a long experience in textile machinery as well as in the high precision machinery industry. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich with a Ph.D. For over 15 years he worked in the textile industry for the Rieter Group, first as Head of manufacturing and pro- curement and then as CEO of spun yarn systems. Since 2009, he successfully lead the Pfiffner Group, Switzerland, a leading supplier of efficient, automatic high precision industrial machines, as CEO.