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The Textile Magazine
DECEMBER 2011
to its true potential. The chaotic
traffic is probably just one of the
outwardly visible signs. The al-
most ‘tribal’ political actions are,
may be, another sign of a lack of
an “All India Discipline”...
To repeat it, India has progressed
a lot, and some of the strong points
of the Indian society are:
• The English language!
• India is a safe place! I person-
ally feel safer in India than almost
anywhere else.
• High education! It seems to me
that Indian parents put more em-
phasis on the education of their
children than any other society I
know. Therefore, Indian indus-
try can select from a large pool of
educated professionals. As we all
know these professionals are even
‘exported’ to many countries, also
fully developed ones.
• Risk-taking entrepreneurs! It is
they who convert the advantages
into progress for society.
If I look at the Indian spinning
industry all the assets mentioned
above can be found there. The
large majority of our customers are
family owned and led by a member
of the family. The technical staff
is very well educated, and nearly
all of them have created an atmos-
phere where the workers seem to
like to work.
Very bluntly speaking, I person-
ally find the Indian spinning indus-
try second to none in the countries
I know!
India has been good to me and
to SUESSEN! Over the past 10
years we could sell over 33,00,000
SUESSEN EliTe Compact Spin-
dles to our Indian customers. This
is over 3.5 times more than our
closest competitor.
SUESSEN’s EliTwist Compact
System, with about 4,00,000 spin-
dles installed, is vastly more suc-
cessful in India
than
anywhere
else! In my opin-
ion, the reason is
the unique mix-
ture of risk tak-
ing owners and
technically so-
phisticated GMs.
Nowhere else in
the world’s spin-
ning industry can
this be found to
the extent avail-
able in India.
What is my
view of the year
2012? What does
it hold in store
for our spinning
industry? Well, I also do not have a
“crystal ball”.
The last few months have been
difficult for our industry, more dif-
ficult than in some other parts of
the world.
This additional difficulty, in my
opinion, may be attributed to some
counter-productive moves by the
Indian Government (export ban on
cotton, then on yarn...)
However, I am optimistic about
the future of our spinning industry!
Like they say in “economic lan-
guage”: the fundamentals are right
with our industry!
On a personal level, I am look-
ing forward to many more years
of close association with “my”
spinning industry in India, many
of whose principal actors have
become trusted friends over the
years!
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