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Reifenhäuser acquires German spinneret manufacturer Enka Tecnica

With this acquisition, Reifenhäuser is expanding the know-how across the value chain and taking the next strategic step for further growth.

16th April 2015

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Troisdorf

Industrial

Reifenhäuser Group will acquire the German spinneret manufacturer and longstanding supplier Enka Tecnica as part of its ambitions to pursue technology leadership through in-house development and the acquisition of companies with know-how in market-relevant technologies.

Uwe Gaedike will continue as CEO of the company, which will operate as an independent business unit within the Reifenhäuser Group, a leading provider of innovative technologies and components for plastics extrusion.

With this acquisition, Reifenhäuser is expanding the know-how across the value chain and taking the next strategic step for further growth, the company reports.

Future development

“Our customers are won over, above all, by our leading technology. With Enka Tecnica, the specialist in spinnerets, we can accelerate future development in the area of extrusion tools, and further establish our leading market position in the field of nonwovens,” explained Bernd Reifenhäuser, CEO of the Reifenhäuser Group.

“However, our goal is to achieve growth in all of Enka Tecnica's business areas: As a result, all of the existing business relations will be left unchanged, and all of the existing product segments will continue to be further developed. We guarantee Enka Tecnica the independence that the company needs in order to continue to work with customers on custom development projects in strict confidentiality.”

Business partners

In addition to the market segment spinnerets for nonwovens, which is of particular relevance for Reifenhäuser, Enka Tecnica also serves the segments wet and dry spinning, melt spinning, and micro components.

“Effective immediately, we are operating as part of a stable, financially secure group that thinks and acts based on the long term. For us, this is very positive,” said Uwe Gaedike, Enka Tecnica's CEO.

“There will be no changes in respect to existing business relations and partnerships – our customers will now be able to benefit from our expanded development capacities: When collaborating with us on development projects, our customers now have the option of also bringing in experts from the Reifenhäuser network. The decision to do so is, of course, always in the hands of our business partners.”

Outlook

Enka Tecnica produces at both locations, Heinsberg (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Gröbzig (Saxony-Anhalt). The latter will be relocated to Halle (Saxony-Anhalt) in summer 2015, in favour of more advanced operating technology and higher productivity.

In addition to Troisdorf, Worms und Lampertheim, Reifenhäuser will have these two additional production sites in Germany. “We are confident that the plastic extrusion market will continue to grow, and we are committed to the location Germany,” said Bernd Reifenhäuser.

“We will continue to invest here in the future. This is where we develop and produce our core components – one of the main reasons for this is because we value the extensive network of expertise in Germany. Enka Tecnica's technology perfectly complements this network. We look forward to working together with the entire team.”

www.reifenhauser.com

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