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The Textile Magazine
August 2012
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out the world for four years now.
90 years of textile technology
exports
Oerlikon Barmag, the tradition-
rich, globally-successful company
located in Remscheid-Lennep,
celebrated its 90th anniversary on
March 27 last.
Founded in 1922 in Wuppertal
Barmen as “Barmer Maschinen-
fabrik AG” (Barmag for short),
the purpose of the new West
German company was to construct
machines and systems for the
rapidly-expanding man-made fiber
industry. Today, the company is,
and has been since 2007, part of
the Oerlikon Textile segment, a
subsidiary of the Swiss high-tech
group OC Oerlikon.
Oerlikon Barmag is the market
leader for spinning systems and
texturing machines for polyester
and polyamide. At its headquar-
ters in Remscheid-Lennep, around
750 highly-qualified engineers
and experts develop and manufac-
ture technologically sophisticated
textile machines for the world
market.
Setting international
standards
Over the long history of the
company, many Oerlikon Barmag
developments have set new stand-
ards in man-made fiber produc-
tion, with most of the innovations
creating and continuing to create
the trail-blazing direction for the
entire sector.
Oerlikon Barmag made a deci-
sive breakthrough in high-speed
spinning with the development of
the world’s very first high-speed
winder in 1969. Further, the com-
pany laid the foundation-stone
in the 1980s for a rapid increase
in the productivity in man-made
fiber production with a completely
new method for depositing the
yarn on spun packages. And in
2007, the new WINGS winder
revolutionized the man-made fiber
manufacturing technology.
“We are particularly proud of
this development as it enables us
to grow further and acquire fur-
ther international market shares,
hence securing the future of both
Oerlikon Barmag and its employ-
ees”, explains Stefan Kroß, the
responsible Managing Director at
Oerlikon Barmag.
The backbone and the engine of
the company are the highly-qual-
ified employees, comments Head
of HR, Uwe Model: “Well-edu-
cated, motivated employees are
simply irreplaceable in our high-
tech business, as they guarantee
the solutions for the demanding
challenges of the future with
their knowledge and expertise.”
Correspondingly, training and
further training is a core compo-
nent of the corporate philosophy
at Oerlikon Barmag. After all,
the company plans to celebrate
many more anniversaries at its
HQ in Remscheid-Lennep in the
future.
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