Aus der Branche

Monforts will take part in a VDMA textile technology trade delegation to Turkmenistan from November 21-26, on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics.

Around 80% of Turkmenistan’s production of textiles and garments is currently exported, with a value of $350 million in 2020. This is now expected to rise to $450 million by 2023.

In addition to expanding in cotton yarns and fabrics, the country is also looking to enter other textile markets, including nonwovens, carpets and absorbent hygiene products, and negotiations are currently underway between the Turkmenistan Ministry of Textile Industry and the Korean Institute of Industrial Technologies to also commence manufacturing synthetic fibres from polymers.

In 2021, a new textile complex was opened by state-owned textile manufacturer Cotam in the city of Kaka, which is aiming to produce 3,650 tons of yarn, 12 million square metres of different types of fabrics and 1.2 million tons of finished products annually, with the creation of 1,300 new jobs.

Monforts has supplied seven complete finishing machine ranges to Turkmenistan company Cotam, as the Central Asian country looks to boost its production of cotton yarns and fabrics via an ambitious textile industry modernisation plan.

Cotam now has two separate manufacturing sites at Babadayhan and Kaka, both of which have now been equipped with Monforts technologies built at the company’s plant in St Stefan in Austria.

Cotam supplies finished fabrics to both the apparel and home textiles markets and at its Babadayhan plant is now operating two Montex stenter lines and a Monfortex sanforizing line. At its new Kaka plant, the company has also installed two Montex stenter lines, as well as a Thermex universal hotflue for continuous dyeing and curing.

“Turkmenistan celebrated 30 years of independence in 2021 and has made a giant leap forward in its progressive development,” said Monforts Managing Director Stefan Flöth. “A textile industry equipped with modern high-tech equipment has been created factories and equipped with the most advanced and high-performance equipment built and put into operation. We are extremely pleased that the Ministry of the Textile Industry of Turkmenistan chose Monforts machinery for its new textile complex in Kaka and together with the machines for Babadayhan and other recent projects we are proud to say that 15 Monforts machines are now established in the country.”

Berlin / Frankfurt am Main – Regina Brückner, Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin der Brückner Trockentechnik, ist neue Vorsitzende des VDMA Fachverbands Textilmaschinen. Die Unternehmerin aus Leonberg wurde im Rahmen der Mitgliederversammlung des Fachverbands in Berlin gewählt. Komplettiert wird die neue Führungsspitze durch Verena Thies, Thies Textilmaschinen, und Fritz P. Mayer, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik, die zu Vize-Vorsitzenden gewählt wurden.

Regina Brückner erklärte nach ihrer Wahl: „Ich freue mich, mit Frau Thies und Herrn Mayer zwei Stellvertreter an meiner Seite zu haben, die sich gut ergänzen. Herr Mayer ist eine Unternehmerpersönlichkeit mit jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung, die er mittlerweile als Vorsitzender des europäischen Textilmaschinenbau-Verbandes CEMATEX einbringt. Frau Thies hat schon früh Verantwortung im Familienbetrieb übernommen und ist seit 2009 für die Traditionsfirma Thies im internationalen Textilmaschinengeschäft tätig.“

Dem neuen Vorstand für die Wahlperiode bis 2021 gehören an:
Regina Brückner (Vorsitzende), Brückner Trockentechnik
Verena Thies (Stellvertreterin), Thies
Fritz P. Mayer (Stellvertreter), Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik
Johann Phillip Dilo, Oskar Dilo Maschinenfabrik
Peter D. Dornier, Lindauer Dornier
Arno Gärtner, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik
Roland Hampel, A. Monforts Textilmaschinen
Dr. Janpeter Horn, Herzog
Markus Kleindorp, Memminger-Iro
Martin Küppers, Saurer Schlafhorst
Georg Stausberg, Oerlikon Textile
Andreas Lukas, Andritz Küsters
Benjamin Mayer, Mayer & Cie.     
Eric Schöller, Groz-Beckert
Heinrich Trützschler, Trützschler