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The Textile Magazine
APRIL 2012
Spun Yarn Systems
accounts for 81% of
Rieter’s
sales in 2011
spinning
Order intake of 775 million CHF
by the Spun Yarn Systems Business
Group in 2011 was 36 per cent lower
than a year earlier (1,217.9 million
CHF). Sales by Spun Yarn Systems
were 28 per cent higher at 861.7 mil-
lion CHF. Demand was broad-based
across market regions.
Customers in more than 45 coun-
tries ordered integrated installa-
tions or single machines. Spun Yarn
Systems has a product range that is
unique worldwide and a strong sales
and service organization.
Both the company’s own units and
its agents are firmly established in
the individual countries. The main
markets were China, Turkey and
India. Substantial orders were also
received from other Asian countries
as well as from Brazil and the US.
Spun Yarn Systems scored a par-
ticular success with the C 70 card
and with products that had been
developed specifically to meet the
needs of the large Asian markets.
These include the G 32 ring spinning
Rieter’s Spun Yarn Sys-
tems develops and manu-
factures machinery and
systems used to convert
natural and man-made
fibers and their blends
into yarns. The business
group generated sales of
861.7 million CHF in the
2011 financial year and
accounted for 81 per cent
of Rieter’s total sales
with 3,594 employees.