“Technology that ensures competitiveness” hits mark

Rieter presented at ITMA Asia + CITME 2021 in the physical and virtual booth technologies that ensure customers’ competitiveness covering automation, fiber yield, energy cost, productivity, flexibility, and intelligence.

As the industry increasingly faces labor shortages and cost pressures, Rieter’s technology solutions met with positive response as they ensure competitiveness even in tough market environments. The new comber E 90 tops the list, followed by the new card C 80, the ring spinning system G 38 with the automation solution ROBOspin, the compacting devices as well as the rotor spinning machines R 70 and R 37 with ROBOdoff.

In addition, two new functionalities in Rieter’s Digital Spinning Suite ESSENTIAL were presented which help customers run their spinning mill more competitively. Customers showed great demand for the new SSM NEO-YW precision winder which boosts efficiency and sustainability.

Furthermore, the new cylinder wire P-1940S and the flexible flat resist-O-top C-60 from Graf enjoyed great popularity as well as MULTISHARP, the unique wear-resistant alloy for cylinder card clothing. The same applies to the ring/traveller system redORBIT from Bräcker which is designed for spinning at top speeds.

The launch of Rieter’s first-ever virtual booth drew hundreds of visitors and proved to be an invaluable tool for customer interaction around the globe as long as travel remains challenging due to the pandemic. Anyone passionate about yarn technology and its components is invited to complete a virtual walk through to examine the company’s innovative portfolio until mid-summer 2021 via: virtualworld.rieter.com.

In the last months Rieter has been observing a boom in the textile machinery market that is due to a catch-up effect: two years of very low investments coupled with the disruption of the textile value chain during the 2020 pandemic. Besides this effect, the pandemic accelerated industry trends like automation, flexibility, and intelligence. Rieter recorded good order intake from Chinese customers and offers the technologies of choice that keep spinning mills competitive in challenging business environments.

Based in Winterthur (Switzerland), Rieter develops and manufactures machinery, systems and components used to convert natural and manmade fibers and their blends into yarns. Rieter is the only supplier worldwide to cover both spinning preparation processes and all four end spinning processes currently established on the market. Furthermore, Rieter is a leader in the field of precision winding machines.