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History
Since its foundation in December 1920, the modest workshop evolved into a global player, developing and manufacturing components for the spinning industry.
In 2001, SUESSEN became a unit of the Swiss Rieter Group in Winterthur.
In all these years, striving continuously for improved and innovative systems has been the key to SUESSEN’s success. In the course of the company’s history, SUESSEN has made significant contributions to the increase in productivity and quality of the various spinning processes like few others in this sector of the industry.
Let’s list up some milestones of the 90 year old history of the company:
1920 | Foundation of the company by Johannes Schurr and Hans Grill - Manufacture and development of spindles and spindle drive units |
1932 | Invention of the ball bearing top roller by Wilhelm Stahlecker, founder of the engineering company WST, marking the first successful cooperation between WST and SUESSEN |
1946 | Cooperation with the company Wilhelm Stahlecker GmbH (WST) |
1950s | Complete modernization of ring spinning frames wit hstate-of-the-art components |
1960s | first decisive developments in the OE rotor spinning |
1971 | ITMA Paris - OE SpinBox with TwinDisc bearing for rotor speeds up to 80,000 rpm |
1975 | ITMA Milan - CleanCat and SpinCat robots for cleaning and piecing-up of rotor spinning machines marking the origin of the automatic rotor spinning machine |
1978 | ATME Greenville - first fully automatic Autocoro rotor spinning machine with SUESSEN SE 7 SpinBox, SpinCat and CleanCat |
1988 | HP-A family of Top Weighting Arms |
1989 | ATME Greenville - SE 9 SpinBox for up to 130,000 rpm, HP-SpinSet for ring spinning machines |
1991 | ITMA Hannover: presentation of the SUESSEN Fiomax ring spinning machine and of the RingCan method |
1995 | 2 millionth SUESSEN SpinBox for Autocoro rotor spinning machines |
1998 | new SpinBox generation SC and SQ for the modernization of SE 7 to SE 10 Autocoro rotor spinning machines |
1999 | ITMA Paris - EliTe®Compact Spinning System for short and long-staple fibres |
2001 | SUESSEN becomes a unit of the Rieter Group |
2002 | Introduction of the SC-R SpinBox for the new Rieter R 40 rotor spinning machine |
2003 | Introduction of EliTwist®, EliCore®, EliCoreTwist®, ProFiL®Rotors |
2004 | Cooperation with Jingwei Textile Machinery Co. Ltd. for the Chinese Market in the field of compact spinning |
2006 | HP-GX family of Top Weighting Arms |
2007 | EliTe®CompactSet V5 with EliVario, EliVAControl |
2009 | SUESSEN sells the 3,000,000th EliTe®Compact Spindle |
2010 | SUESSEN solidifies its position as the leading supplier of compact spinning, having more than 3,500,000 EliTe®Compact Spindles installed world wide |
We think it’s just fair to say that without SUESSEN the world of spinning machinery would probably look different today. SUESSEN has made ground-breaking developments in all successful spinning systems, thus giving impetus to the progress of technique and technology.
