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Arbeitsschutz Sachsen, May 13, 2008
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH adopts the OHRIS Health and Safety Management System
[…] Today the old-established worsted spinning mill is one of the most modern manufacturers worldwide of fashion and technical worsted yarns. […] In the process, the company quite deliberately makes use of the relationship between health and safety, and quality to achieve results, as well as between health and safety, creativity, and motivation […]. As a consequence, the company has not recorded a single labor accident so far in 2008. On March 11, 2008, the auditing and certification of the OHRIS Health and Safety Management system at Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH was carried out by the Industrial Health and Safety Department of the Chemnitz Regional Administrative Authority, and on May 5, 2008, in a ceremonial atmosphere, the OHRIS certificate was presented to Managing Director Siegfried von Roth by the Saxonian State Ministry for Economy and Labor. […]
Freie Presse, March 03, 2008
A Future as a Flexible Supplier of Niche Products
Zwickauer Kammgarn Focuses on Technical Textiles
There is a large demand for technical textiles worldwide, and the annual growth rates amount to more than approximately 20 percent. […] The company, which is part of PEPPERMINT.Holding, Berlin, sees its future in technical yarns. Currently, a new machine room is especially prepared for this purpose. In total, more than half a million euros will be spent on this sector this year. "We are becoming more and more a flexible supplier of niche products", said Siegfried von Roth, Managing Director. […] The spinning machines also produce yarns for textiles which are used in extreme ways, such as protective clothing for the Federal Armed Forces and fire fighters, furnace, or heavy current areas. […]
Freie Presse, April 18, 2007
Colored Yarns from Silberstraße Fly Around the World
Yarns from the worsted spinning mill in Silberstraße fly all around the world in the truest sense of the phrase. Established in Schedewitz in 1835, the company, which employs 150 people in Silberstraße today […], makes products for many airlines in America and Asia. […] It also produces yarns for cover fabrics on car seats of the Mercedes brand. And the woven yarns used in police uniforms sometimes come from Wilkau-Haßlau, too. […]
Freie Presse, April 18, 2007
These Yarns Fly All Around the World
[…] "80 percent of our employees are skilled workers, we have an excellent team." Siegfried von Roth, Managing Director, is full of praise for his staff. […] He explains that it's all about innovation and extreme flexibility rather than volume. […] The division of technical yarns for the production of functional textiles such as non-flammable or fire-retardant fabrics has been expanded. These yarns are developed in Silberstraße jointly with final customers such as the Bundeswehr, and in close cooperation with the Saxon Textile Research Institute of Chemnitz and Technische Universität Dresden.
Freie Presse, April 5, 2005
Good Yarn Is Spun in Silberstraße
[…] "Being a manufacturer of weaving and knitting yarn for ladies'
and men's outerwear, office wear, fabrics for upholstery as well as cover
fabrics for the car industry and aircraft industry we are currently working
on a number of new products, including high-tenacity FR yarn for protective
clothing of the Bundeswehr", said Siegfried von Roth, the company's managing
director. […] "We have excellent employees. We are increasingly
becoming a niche specialist for any purpose. It's certainly safe to say
that we're second to none in Germany in that regard", he stressed. […]
Freie Presse, April 5, 2005
Vocational Guidance Fair Held by the Chamber of Commerce
[…] The Zwickau regional chamber of commerce opened a fair under
the name "Vocations and Products - Who makes What?" on its premises
at Äußere Schneeberger Straße 34 yesterday. Selected products and services
from companies based in western Saxony will be presented in the lobby
until 30 June. Susanne Melath, […] a second-year industrial sales
apprentice, and Susanne Krüger, a textile product designer, of Zwickauer
Kammgarn GmbH have prepared some products for the show. […]
Freie Presse, April 17-18, 2004
Zwickauer Kammgarn to Cut 25 Percent of Jobs
Social Compensation Plan Already Completed - 60
Employees Set to Lose Their Jobs
[…] Von Roth cited extremely difficult market conditions and pricing
pressure, especially from China, as reasons for the job cuts. […]
In order to maintain the production location of Wilkau-Haßlau in the long
term, von Roth intends to invest several million euros in introducing
new spinning technology from Switzerland by mid-2006, a process which
he said was four to five times more productive than conventional technologies
[…]
Finance, March 2002
Worsted Yarn, Collective Combine, and Crisis
A Problem Child of the Treuhand Privatization Agency
Turned Player in the World Spinning Market Through Private Equity
[…] Based in Zwickau, the company used to be no more than a natural
white spinner operating in the weaving yarn segment. There were many others
that were able to do the same, and in countries where much lower wages
where paid than in Germany at that. More than just a little was necessary
to make the company a successful niche player, so the new way to go was
to diversify. "We started turning out knitting yarn as well. This combination
was unique in the world." However, quality had to be improved as well.
The motto was to move away from standard yarn. Today, Neumann [managing partner of
PEPPERMINT.Holding] is proud to say: "At the moment we are Germany's finest
spinner." […]
Textilwirtschaft, February 2002
bioRe: Joining Forces for Eco Clothing
Six Textile Companies Have Created a Platform for Socio-ecological
Textile Products
The demand for textiles manufactured in an environmentally friendly way
has been rising steadily over these last years. Nevertheless, eco clothing
is still a niche product, often sold at prices which are much higher than
those for conventionally manufactured products. Therefore, the companies
Hermann Bühler AG, Sennhof / Switzerland, Kulmbacher Spinnerei GmbH, Mainleus
/ Germany, F.A. Kümpers GmbH & Co. KG, Rheine / Germany, Maikaal Fibers
Limited, Calcutta / India, Remai AG, Rotkreuz / Switzerland and Zwickauer
Kammgarn GmbH, Wilkau-Hasslau / Germany, have created the bioRe platform
for fibres, yarn and finished fabrics. Its purpose is to offer socio-ecological
textile products at "reasonable" prices. Articles bearing the bioRe label
will be subject to close monitoring all the way from crop growing through
to the sales counter. […]
Finance, August 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH, Leuze miltex sro. | Leuze Textil GmbH &
Co.
Textiles. Zwickauer Kammgarn, a worsted spinning mill from Zwickau, has
bought Leuze miltex. The Czech industry neighbour is based in Miletín.
[…]
Melliand Textilberichte, July / August
2001
ZKS Expands to the Czech Republic
[…] The PEPPERMINT.Holding (formerly Schröder & Partner) took
over Zwickauer Kammgarn from the Berlin Treuhand privatisation agency
for restructuring in 1993 and has operated it as its owner since 1997.
Within this period, the company developed into a worsted spinner that
is competitive at an international level, generating a turnover in excess
of DEM 50 million. This development has been furthered by a consistent
upgrading and extension of machinery, the installation of Europe's most
modern, fully automatic top dyeing and cross winding dyehouse (more than
DEM 30 million have been invested since 1996), highly qualified employees
and the company's excellent innovative power. […]
Wirtschaftsjournal, July
2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn is Expanding Towards the Czech Republic
Take-over of Leuze miltex in Miletín / ZKS Is Thus Strengthening
Its Competitive Position on the International Markets / Export Percentage
Is Expected to Increase from 43 to 50 Percent
In the words of its managing director, Siegfried von Roth, the Silberstraße-based
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH has made a significant contribution to the revival
of the East German textiles industry, something which the union was recently
able to confirm […]
Wirtschaftsjournal, July
2001
Without Water Nothing Functions in the Dyehouse, the Processes Are Fully
Automated
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH (ZKS) Was Founded in 1835. It
Produces Top Quality Dyed and Raw White Worsted. Since 1993, the Berlin-based
PEPPERMINT.Holding Has Had a 94 Percent Share in the Company
Admittedly, the Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH dyeing apparatus are in no way
reminiscent of the dye vats of former manufacturing eras. The new dyehouse
which was put into operation in 1997 is fully automated. The apparatus
are automatically charged and shut and lock on their own. The dosage of
the required chemical and textile auxiliaries is program and recipe-controlled
and is carried out parallel to the charging; the weighing of the textile
dyes, on the other hand, is carried out manually in accordance with recipe
instructions […]
Freie Presse Online, June 28,
2001
Spinning Mill Goes to Bohemia
Spinning Mill Buys Plant in Czech Republic
[…] As ZKS managing director Siegfried von Roth announced to
the Press, the company that currently employs around 300 workers in its
Wilkau Haßlau-based (Zwickauer Land district) spinning factory, wants
to use this acquisition to force its rise to become one of Europe's top
worsted spinners. […]
TWnetwork.de, June 28, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn Is Expanding to the Czech Republic
[…] The acquisition enables the worsted spinner, which is a member
of the PEPPERMINT.Holding, Berlin, to further expand its capacities and
enter the product segment of core yarns, in which, according to a company
statement, the Saxon company will be the only German supplier. […]
Textilwirtschaft, June 21, 2001
ZKS with Leuze miltex in the Czech Republic
Entrance into the Product Segment of Core Yarns
[…] According to ZKS managing director, Siegfried von Roth, both
the new segment of elastic core yarns and the further expansion of the
dyed yarns sector to over 60 percent will enable the company to become "Germany's
most complex worsted supplier". According to a company statement, the
company generated just under EUR 27 million turnover in the business
year 2000 (43 percent export) […]
Freie Presse, General Section,
June 13, 2001
Spinning Operations Expand to Bohemia
[…] The acquisition strengthened the competitive edge of the worsted
spinner, which is based in eastern Germany and which has been a member
of the Berlin PEPPERMINT.Holding since 1997, in the international market,
said Siegfried von Roth, managing director of ZKS, at the company's headquarters
in Wilkau-Hasslau yesterday. He added that this move helped the company
in its effort to get to the forefront of Europe's worsted spinners and
to ensure that it could maintain its location in western Saxony. […]
Freie Presse, Business Section,
June 13, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn Goes to Bohemia
The Company Wants to Become Europe's Top Worsted Spinner
- Cutbacks Planned for the Wilkau-Haßlau Site
[…] "The specialist staff there are highly qualified and the machinery
is modern. Thus we are expecting a rapid integration", explains ZKS manager
von Roth, who nevertheless remains vague when talking about the buying
price: "We paid a very high single-digit million sum." - Industry
experts refer to a bargain, a judgement which von Roth does not deny.
[…]
Sächsische Zeitung, June 13, 2001
Low Wages Lure the People from Zwickau to Its Neighbour
West Saxons Buy Czech Plant and Cut Every Tenth Job Back
Home
[…] "The future Czech subsidiary is a good buy, as the company
was put into operation as recently as 1998 and is thus fitted with very
modern equipment", explains Kammgarn managing director, Siegfried von
Roth, about the nearby border. "This will enable us to further improve
our competitive position." […]
Westfälischer Anzeiger, June 13,
2001
Kammgarn Takes Over Czech Company
[…] the company, which is a member of the Berlin-based PEPPERMINT.Holding
is, according to its own statement, taking over the Czech firm Leuze
miltex CZ k.s., with the aim of both strengthening its competitive position
on the international market and optimizing costs. […]
VentureTimes, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn Is Expanding to the Czech Republic
[…] Along with the acquisition of the Czech production plant, the
Leuze-based ZKS is also taking over the product sector of core yarns.
This involves elastic combination yarns, which are given a special appearance,
a better feel and abrasion resistance by the use of an elastane / filament
core. In the future, Zwickauer Kammgarn will be the only German supplier
of core yarns, which will thus secure its position as one of the most
innovative textile companies worldwide. […]
adx, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH Takes Over Czech Company
[…] With the acquisition of the production plant, which was established
as recently as 1998, the Wilkau-Haßlau-based company will also be taking
over the as yet for them unfamiliar segment of core yarns. Thus, ZKS will
in future be the only German company to supply these elastic combination
yarns, which are given a special appearance, a better feel and high abrasion
resistance by the use of an elastane / filament core. […]
news aktuell, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn Is Expanding to the Czech Republic
Take-over of Leuze miltex in Miletín / ZKS Strengthens
Its Competitive Position
[…] Zwickauer Kammgarn is making history with the purchase of the
Czech production plant. Ingeborg Neumann, managing member of PEPPERMINT.Holding,
sums up the situation: "ZKS is one of the few companies to have
established a brand under their own steam. With the expansion Germany's
finest spinning mill is improving its global competitive position and
securing the future of its textile site in Zwickau." […]
dpa, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH Takes Over Company in the Czech Republic
[…] According to von Roth, the Saxon site, where 16 apprentices
are currently undergoing training, is certainly not threatened, but rather
the production plant at the foot of the Sudeten mountains is expected
to strengthen the Saxon company. The complete withdrawal of the Leuze
Group from the worsted sector has resulted in a unique opportunity for
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH (ZKS), a member of the Berlin PEPPERMINT.Holding,
to expand to Eastern Europe. […]
ddp, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH Takes Over Czech Company
[…] In the past year the company [ZKS] generated EUR 27 million
turnover, turnover in 2001 is expected to increase to EUR 32 million.
At the same time the export percentage of the turnover is expected to
increase from the present figure of 43 percent (1998: 30 percent) by more
than half. Now that ZKS has exported its yarns to Japan and South Korea
in 2000, the "gaps on the map are expected to be filled in Southern Europe".
The company already has a strong presence in Italy, the "key fashion market".
[…]
Maschen-Industrie, September 2000
Threads Are Changing
[…] Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH also relies on functionality. Their
"Easy Wear" line features six qualities, which are either antibacterial
(70 % wool, 30 % polyacrylonitrile), thermo-regulative (53 % wool, 47 % Rhovyl),
hydrophobic (70 % wool, 30 % polyamide) or flame-retarding (100 % Trevira
Casein). […]
Wochenspiegel, July
22, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn Has a Good Balance Sheet
The Conversion of the Branch Office Resulted in New Presentation
Rooms
[…] "Almost 300 workers produce ten tons of yarn per day and in
the past year were able to generate a profit for the first time ever",
explains Roth, praising his highly motivated colleagues. He has been working
in the textiles industry for 25 years and has never before experienced
such an excellently trained team. […]
Blick, July 19, 2000
Investments in Spinning Mill
Three Million Marks Alone This Year
[…] The top and yarn dyehouse is supposedly one of the most modern
in the world. Thanks to its reconstruction in October 1996, it was able
to react very quickly to customer and market requirements. The plant is
also a guarantee for quality. 12 million marks were invested in the plant,
a further two million marks in its expansion two years ago. […]
Freie Presse, July 15-16, 2000
Silberstraße Yarns Are Purchased by Buyers Across the Globe
Zwickauer Kammgarn Ranks Among the Most Modern Spinning
Mills
[…] Roth is confident that the company ranks among the most modern
of Germany's nine worsted spinning mills. "We produce the finest yarns".
However, the head of the company is not content with this alone. His goal
is to match the industry's leading Italian producers. "And we're well
on the way to doing so." […]
Freie Presse, July 15-16, 2000
Kammgarn Spins a Good Thread
Gerry Weber and Hugo Boss with Zwickau Yarns -
The Company Is in the Black Again
[…] Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH in Wilkau-Haßlau/Silberstraße is countering
the industry trend and plans to increase its sales again in 2000. This
year the company is aiming for around 60 million German marks turnover,
about five million German marks more than the previous year. […]
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Radio PSR, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarnspinnerei considers itself as being on the way to becoming
Europe's top worsted spinning mill. "A few days ago, we bought a firm
in the Czech Republic", reports company head, Siegfried von Roth. He told
Radio PSR that there are only a few of the 300 employees who can expect
to be given notice as a result of this. […]
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Zwickau 96,2, June 12, 2001
Zwickauer Kammgarn Is Expanding to the Czech Republic
On 1 July the company is taking over a factory near Liberec at the foot
of the Sudeten mountains. "This should result in the strengthening of
the company's competitive position on the international markets", explains
managing director, von Roth. […]
MDR aktuell, June 12, 2001
[…] the East German spinning company, Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH,
is the first to expand to Eastern Europe. The firm is taking over a Czech
company in Miletín near Liberec. The Saxon spinning mill hopes that this
will improve its competitive position on the international markets, as
well as save personnel costs. […]
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