Romania - Nota macchine tessili 2009

Conjuncture note concerning the textile sector in Romania – YEAR 2009
� TANEX Bucharest
Tanex has two major sectors: clothing and knitting; there are two different companies Tanex and
Tanex Conf. In the clothing segment they invested in special machines, in automation. In the
knitting segment, bought other four Stoll machines fineness 12, in order to balance the winter
season and the summer season. Also, purchased the latest generation software, which will allow
them to create the knitting models easier. In the clothing segment, in order to stay competitive on
the market, developed a technical department which is a more evolved department, in the sense
that clients get everything, the mould, gradation, and all the other operations. That is why they
bought an automatic cutting system.
Tanex evoluated to an ontegrated business.
� ORHIDEEA Fetesti
Orhideea is a producer of confections for both women and men that has an annual turnover of
about 500.000 Euro. The company invested in technology buying sewing and finishing machines in
amount of 18.000 Euro. After the investment was done both productivity and quality increased
rapidly. Orhideea is exporting 98% of the production.
� CROMADI Pucioasa
The company Cromadi is manufacturing bad and kitchen cloth using cotton type fabrics
manufactured by Romanian companies and also imported from Moldova and Turkey. In 2009 they
invested is a new automatic quilting machine.
� SIRETUL Pascani
The knitted fabric manufacturer SIRETUL Pascani invested during 2008 in a new LIBA line of
machines for manufacturing geogrid fabrics with the destination geotextiles. The investment was
of about 1,5 million Euro. Due to this investment recently the company declared the beginning of
the insolvency procedure.
� ARIESUL CONF Ariesi
The company produces sport and leasure cloth for Dolce &Gabbana, Benetton, Spidi and
Campagnolo. In 2008 they bought a plotter and new generation of sewing machines and finishing
machines. The com[pany is also selling on the Romanian market.
Regarding the congresses, studies, protocols, agreements in the textile and clothing industry, a
few things need to be mentioned:
� FEPAIUS organized specialized seminaries on actual problems of this period reffering
to aspects of the European legislation that will apply to the textile and colating sectors . These
took place in the next locations: Mamaia (February 29, 2009), Brasov (April 01-05, 2009), Focsani
(March 25-29, 2009).
The program contained the next items:
- The crises of the working people after Romanian EU because of the mondial economic
crises
- Possibilities for small and medium companies of financing by the EU or Romania
Government
- Correlation of the Romanian standards with the European ones.
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