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The Textile Magazine
JUNE 2012
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panies emphasised is that of techni-
cal textiles, a new and innovative
technology which offers even more
specialised and tailor-made machin-
ery solutions for its customers.
Fong’s Industries Group,
founded in 1963, focuses on
the design, manufacturing
and sale of dyeing and fin-
ishing machinery.
Its holding com-
pany, Fong’s
Industries Co.
Ltd., was the
first of its kind
to be publicly
listed on the
Hong Kong Stock
Exchange in 1990. The group
has been part of the State-owned
China Hi-Tech Group Corporation
Mr. Roland Hampel, Managing Director, Monforts
(CHTC) since 2011.
Monforts is the world leader in
textile machinery, having devel-
oped cutting-edge technology in
finishing machine engineering for
more than 125 years. It has its sub-
sidiary company in Austria, Mon-
tex-Maschinenfabrik Ges.m.b.H.,
with a production site in St. Stefan.
Including those in Austria, Mon-
forts employs 160 staff and holds a
large number of patents.
Monforts offers its customers
tailor-made solutions and in future
sets to extend its innovation leader-
ship to focus on technical textiles.
In 1998, the group entered a jointly
controlled entity with Hong Kong-
based Fong’s to form Monforts
Fong’s Textile Machinery Co. Ltd.
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trusted and successful partners in
China.”
One of the main areas of future
business that the heads of both com-