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Rieter publishes its Sustainability Report for 2013

The core themes of this report are the global promotion of future generations of personnel and energy efficiency.

5th September 2014

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Winterthur

Sustainable, Industrial

With its report for 2013 Rieter, a leaing textile machinery supplier, is publishing the results of its sustainability endeavours for the third successive year.

The core themes of this issue are the global promotion of future generations of personnel and energy efficiency.

The company’s long-standing goal is to secure the provision of future generations of personnel for Rieter and the machine manufacturing industry. Rieter also succeeded in further optimising the energy efficiency of its products compared to the previous year, the company reports.

Expansion and modernisation

Rieter’s 2012/2013 investment programme also included the expansion and modernisation of its manufacturing capacity in China and India, which increased the group’s energy consumption in absolute terms by 2 000 MWh to 133 000 MWh.

At the same time Rieter was able to reduce total energy consumption relative to corporate output (sales) by 15% thanks to its energy-saving programme. Rieter says it also attaches great importance to reducing energy consumption in its product developments and innovations.

According to the company, continuous progress is evident, for example, in the current R 60 rotor spinning machine, which consumes 5% less energy than the predecessor model.

Rieter

Rieter is a leading supplier on the world market for textile machinery and components used in short staple fibre spinning.

Based in Winterthur, Switzerland, the company develops and manufactures systems, machinery and technology components used to convert natural and manmade fibres and their blends into yarns.

Rieter is the covers spinning preparation processes as well as all four final spinning processes currently established on the market. With 18 manufacturing locations in ten countries, the company employs a global workforce of some 4 800.

www.rieter.com

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