Overseas Machinery Manufacturers - NCM-Directory

With its innovative engineering and procurement solutions, prolim makes machinery and plant more profitable and competitive. In more than 15 years of practical experience, prolim has continually refined design-to-cost methods, such as target cost management, value analysis and product design cost estimation. prolim demonstrates how to formulate and achieve manufacturing cost Targets.

Competence

• Product development
• Design-to-cost
• Strategical Procurement
• Express-Procurement
• Profit potential analysis

Flagship product

Profit potential analysis: A potential analysis rapidly identifies how you can use rigorous cost management to significantly boost your margins while at the same time reducing time-to-market by up to 50\%. This analysis is reliable and entirely without risk to you.

prolim engineering GmbH
Wiesenstrasse 36
CH-8700 Küsnacht
Switzerland

Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for short-staple fiber spinning. Based in Winterthur (Switzerland), the company 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 spinning preparation processes as well as all four end spinning processes currently established on the market. Furthermore, Rieter is a leader in the field of precision winding machines. With 16 manufacturing locations in ten countries, the company employs a global workforce of some 4420, about 21% of whom are based in Switzerland.

Competence

• Customized spinning systems for maximum efficiency and competitiveness
• Competence in all four end spinning technologies on the market
• Solutions for the digitization of spinning mills
• After Sales services and solutions
• Premium components from fiber to yarn

Flagship product

Compacting device COMPACTdrum: With easy installation and removal, the compacting device COMPACTdrum for Rieter ring spinning machines allows for quick switches between ring yarn and compact yarn. COMPACTdrum adds a new dimension to reducing hairiness. The device processes all raw materials and covers all yarn counts. With low energy requirements, very high productivity and long-life technology components, production costs are kept low.
Product detail

Rieter Management AG
Klosterstrasse 32
CH-8406 Winterthur
Switzerland

Rüti Textil is a company that is dedicated to modifying and improving Maschinenfabrik Rüti, Sulzer Rüti and Sulzer Textil brand weaving machines. Thanks to our many years of experience and sound knowledge in textile machine engineering, we perform customer-specific modifications, adaptations and improvements. The result is higher performance, better fabric quality or a relief of the machines itself. With our conversion concept, we are leading high-quality technology into the next generation and thus preventing fully functional machines from being replaced by weaving machines with significantly shorter lifetime.

We are a company that follows the standards of Industry 4.0. We provide engineering services in a network of specialists. For the production of the components we work together with selected Swiss manufacturers.

Competence

• Analysis in the areas of mechanical and textile engineering, particularly for weft insertion
• Customer-specific modifications and improvements, from development right up to implementation
• High-quality and performance-enhancing components and assemblies, thanks to the very latest production technologies

Flagship product

R12light projectile: Weight–optimized projectiles extend the weft yarn spectrum by improving insertion quality and performance. Customers with a D2 projectile can switch to the advantageous R12heavy projectile with a corresponding increase in performance.

Rüti Textil
Postfach 632
CH-8630 Rüti
Switzerland

The Saurer Group is a globally operating technology group focusing on machinery and components for processing staple fibre from bale to yarn. Our offering also includes twisting and embroidery machinery as well as engineered and polymer solutions. As a company with a long tradition, Saurer has always been a leader in innovation. With annual sales revenues of EUR 1.1 bn, 4500 employees, and locations in 12 countries the group is well positioned to serve the world’s textile industry centres.

Competence

• rotor spinning (fully automated spinning positions)
• winding
• ring spinning (compact, worsted)
• twisting (glass twisting)
• embroidery (shuttle emboidery)
• online quality control systems
• engineered bearing solutions
• elastomer components

Flagship product

Autocoro 9: The E3-certified Autocoro 9, with its intelligence in each individual spinning position, sets new standards in energy-savings, productivity, economic efficiency, ease of operation and quality.

Saurer AG
Bleikenstrasse 11
CH-9630 Wattwil
Switzerland

Sedo Engineering develops new technology for Denim industry. Our Smart Indigo Technology brings a revolutionary change in global Denim / Jeans industry. Smart Indigo use Electricity instead of chemicals to reduce and make indigo able to dye. It’s the cleanest, cheapest and best way to use indigo. Beside Smart Indigo we offer several unique production control equipment, automation and industry 4.0 integration for denim industry. We have decades of experience in this field and offer Swiss quality products and services.

Competence

• Smart Indigo or the cleanest Denim/Jeans production
• Electricity instead of chemicals
• High sustainability
• More ecological and economical
• Reduce health hazard
• Better color consistency and performance
• Savings in wastewater treatments and energy
• Easy to handle and more efficient

Flagship product

Smart Indigo: Smart Indigo for Denim Industry – machine reduce indigo with electricity instead of chemicals

Sedo Engineering SA
Rue de Village
CH-1908 Riddes
Switzerland

Stäubli, an international group headquartered in Switzerland, is a global mechatronics solution provider with three dedicated activities: Connectors, Robotics & Textile. Stäubli Textile has been developing and producing high-quality systems for the weaving industry for over a century. The broad range of weaving and knitting solutions brings flexibility to mills while allowing the highest production speeds and reliability. Stäubli enables its customers to quickly meet any market demand with ease.

Competence

• Solutions for automated weaving preparation (warp reading-in at sizing, leasing, automatic drawing in, warp tying, transport & storage solutions)
• Shedding solutions for frame weaving (cam motions, electronic rotary dobbies)
• Jacquard machines for any application, from flat fabrics to technical applications
• Weaving systems for carpets, e.g. rugs & wall-to-wall carpets for residential and contract applications
• Weaving systems for technical fabrics, e.g. reinforcement for lightweight applications, heavy multilayers and spacers
• Automation solutions for sock-knitting machines (controller, toe-linking device, design and production software)

Flagship product

SAFIR S60 automatic drawing-in installation: Within Stäubli’s broad range of automatic drawing-in installations, the SAFIR S60 is the all-round talent, ideal for processing warps for shirting fabrics and home textiles.

Stäubli AG
Poststrasse 5
CH-8808 Pfäffikon
Switzerland

Svegea offers the most complete line of Collarette cutters, Slitting machines and Bias Cutting range. The machines are world renowned for their ability to produce the highest quality trim at top speeds. The Svegea product range provides solutions for all knits, t-shirts, children’s wear, bias/ waistband and home textile manufacturers.

Contact Person:

Håkan Steene

Uster Technologies is the leading high-technology instrument manufacturer of products for quality management for the textile industry. The company provides testing and monitoring instruments, systems and services that allow optimization of quality through each individual stage of textile production. This includes raw textile fibers, all staple fiber and filament yarns, as well as downstream services to the final finished fabric.

Competence

• Ginning & Cotton classing
• Fiber cleaning
• Fiber testing
• Yarn testing
• Yarn clearing
• Fabric inspection

Flagship product

USTER® TESTER 6: The USTER® TESTER 6 incorporates the Total Testing Center where data from the tester and other connected instruments are analyzed for fact-based decision on profitable spinning.

The USTER® TESTER is the heart of the laboratory in most mills around the world and is acknowledged as the global standard.

Uster Technologies AG
Sonnenbergstrasse 10
CH-8610 Uster
Switzerland

VITO NOTO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN has always worked to improve the user experience by designing ergonomic and functional workstations. A decisive importance to make an intuitive and comfortable approach of the operator with the machines. The continuous collaboration between engineering and design results in a constructive dialogue and a quality of development otherwise unattainable. The operator’s life becomes easier when using different machines through a consistent interface that includes textile-specific families of pictograms.

Competence

• industrial product corporate design
• interface
• ergonomie
• rendering
• communication
• pictogramms

Flagship product

Form design of machines: Our form design of machines includes the development down to the last detail, such as the interactive levels including language-independent pictograms that will also support the 4.0 aspects.

Vito Noto Industrial Design
Via dei Circoli 18
CH-6965 Cadro-Lugano
Switzerland

ZETA DATATEC GmbH is the manufacturer of the product LOOMDATA, the monitoring and planning system for textile production. LOOMDATA covers all functions from ERP over merchandise management and quality control up to data collection. Our hardware and software is developped and produced in Switzerland.

Competence

• Complete System is delivered by us
• Very fast Start-up – in one day the system is up and running
• Standard Software
• Own machine station
• Very stable communication
• High number of machines can be connected
• Many years of experience
• High number of installed Systems
• Simple data transfer to other systems
• Software maintenance contract with integrated support

Flagship product

LOOMDATA: LOOMDATA is a complete solution that can be installed and made operational in a remarkably short time. It is the most stable and reliable monitoring and planning system available in the world today.

ZETA DATATEC GmbH
Badstrasse 5
CH-8212 Neuhausen
Switzerland