SUESSEN innovations on display

ITMA fairs, which take place every four years, have been corner stones in the development of textile machinery for many years. Suessen reported, “This was the first ITMA ever in Munich, and many of our customers commented that the infrastructure was the best they had seen anywhere! Suessen is the market leader in compact spinning, with over 2,400,000 EliTe®Spindles sold worldwide, and is the leading manufacturer of open-end rotor SpinBoxes and open-end technology parts – called Premium Parts.

Suessen is part of the TCC Group, which is an independent Business Group of RIETER, the other members of TCC being Bräcker, Graf and Novibra. These companies are considered as leaders in their respective fields. Suessen shared the booth with Bräcker, Graf and Novibra. JINGWEI also exhibited EliTwist® on their machine at their booth in hall A6.

Among many other innovations, SUESSEN showed the EliTwist®Compact Spinning System spinning Ne 100/2 at 22,000 rpm. The all-new core yarn attachment COREflex® was producing core yarn on this machine. Further novelties included the new Premium Parts CR SOLIDRING and ProFiL®Navels.

The new HP-GX Top Weighting Arm Family now is complete with HP-GX 4010 – for roving frames and HP-GX 5010 – for worsted spinning frames.

Despite the general slight down turn in the textile market, SUESSEN had record numbers of visitors on the booth: Nearly 900 visitors, generally at the Owner, MD or GM level were greeted by the SUESSEN sales staff in the course of 8 days. Several orders were concluded on the spot.

In summary, ITMA Munich was successful for SUESSEN! Quantity and quality of our visitors exceeded our expectations, concluded the recent press statement by Suessen.

The Suessen EliTe compact spinning has around a 45% share of the total compact ring spindles Market.

Out of a total of 2.4 million Suessen EliTe compact spindles now delivered worldwide, one million have been supplied to various customers in India. Suessen officially handed over Indian spindle signifying the number one million to Mr. B.K. Patodia, chairman of the GTN Textiles Group.

Therefore, the 1,000,000th EliTe®Spindle to India was delivered to the very same customer, who bought the first one, too! A celebration of this happy event, was also organized at 15th September at Sueesen booth, where the guest of honour, Mr. B.K. Patodia, Chairman of the GTN Textiles Group received the token 1,000,000th spindle.

The Managing Directors of Suessen, Mr. Erich Casanova and Mr. Peter Stahlecker and Ioannis Spiridopolos were also present with the Pakistani local agent Associated Textile Consultants (ATC) at the occasion.

 Mr. B. K. Patodia, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of GTN Textiles Ltd., and Chairman of Patspin India Ltd., is at the helm of well-known GTN Group of Companies, which is one of the largest exporters of combed cotton yarns from India. Mr. B. K. Patodia, a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani. He is the past Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry, New Delhi (previously known as ICMF) and Southern India Mills’ Association. He is also the Past President of the Employers’ Federation of Southern India and the Cochin Chamber of Commerce and Industry.