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4 <strong>Oerlikon</strong> <strong>Schlafhorst</strong> <strong>Express</strong><br />

News<br />

It all started with the Zinser spindle<br />

History of Zinser<br />

On 19 August 1914, Eugen Zinser was<br />

granted patent no. 303002 by the Imperial<br />

Patent Office in Berlin on the “self-adjusting<br />

ring spindle for spinning and twisting machines”.<br />

By 1919 he had established the<br />

Süddeutsche Spindelwerke and commenced<br />

production. The workforce consisted of 6<br />

employees, soon increasing to a staff of 40.<br />

The next stage in the company’s development<br />

was the acquisition of a licence for rollerbearing<br />

spindles in 1931. Thanks to spindle<br />

production and the new branch of business<br />

covering the modernization of used ring<br />

spinning machines, the company quickly<br />

grew in size. In 1939 annual production was<br />

running at 20,000 spindles; 10 years later,<br />

this had risen to 50,000 spindles.<br />

Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH<br />

After joining the factory in 1935, Hans Zinser,<br />

the son of the company’s founder, set up<br />

Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH in 1949. It<br />

was an economic boom time; the factory<br />

was extended repeatedly and new production<br />

facilities planned. Ring spinning machines<br />

for worsted yarns and carded wool yarns<br />

were added to the product portfolio alongside<br />

cotton ring spinning machines. At the 1955<br />

ITMA show in Brussels, Zinser then presented<br />

a complete production programme including<br />

card, draw frame, speed frame and ring<br />

spinning machine.<br />

In 1952 the company laid the foundations<br />

for a new product group comprising machines<br />

for synthetic fibres, draw twisters and draw<br />

winding machines. This division has accompanied<br />

the upturn in synthetic filaments in all<br />

phases of development with leading manufacturers<br />

of manmade fibres. Further<br />

milestones in the history of Zinser were the<br />

establishment of Zinser Far-East in Hong<br />

Kong in 1962 and of Zinser Maschinenbau<br />

in Oberviechtach in 1970.<br />

At the ITMA in Basle in 1967, Zinser was the<br />

first manufacturer to present automatic doffing<br />

on the ring spinning machine to the spinning<br />

world. CoWeMat, Zinser’s product name from<br />

the start, has remained synonymous to this<br />

day with automatic doffing on ring spinning<br />

machines.<br />

Trend towards automation continues<br />

Innovation didn’t end with the Zinser CoWeMat.<br />

Automation of the speed frame/ring<br />

spinning machine and transport systems<br />

continued, characterising the developments<br />

of the 1970s and 1980s. In high-wage<br />

countries automation offered the solution to<br />

rising labour costs. Quality that is not operator-dependent<br />

and improved logistics in the<br />

spinning mill have also ensured acceptance<br />

in the rest of the world.<br />

A view of the outside of the former works of the Süddeutsche Spindelwerke in Hauptstraße in Ebersbach/Fils.<br />

Eugen Zinser registered the<br />

first Zinser spindle with the<br />

Imperial Patent Office in 1914.<br />

Company founder Eugen Zinser on<br />

his 70th birthday.

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