Rieter is an industrial group based in Winterthur, Switzerland, and operating on a global scale. Formed in 1795, the company is a leading supplier to the textile and automotive industries. Rieter has a presence in 20 countries with some 70 manufacturing facilities and has a total worldwide workforce of approximately 15500 employees, some 13% of whom are based in Switzerland.

The company comprises two divisions:

Rieter Textile Systems develops and produces machinery and systems for manufacturing yarns and nonwovens. Rieter Textile Systems’ core business is machinery and components for converting natural and manmade fibers and their blends into yarns.

As a partner and supplier to automotive manufacturers, Rieter Automotive Systems develops and manufactures components, modules and total systems for acoustic comfort and thermal management in motor vehicles.

Rieter Textile Systems:

A leading global systems supplier for the production of short staple yarn, nonwovens and pellets.

Rieter Textile Systems is the leading supplier of integrated systems for manufacturing yarns from natural and man-made fibres for all applications. Rieter Textile Systems is the world’s only supplier of products and know-how covering the entire spinning process and can therefore develop optimal solutions for customers. Rieter Textile Systems supplies technologies for producing nonwovens, a segment with numerous applications ranging from the hygiene to the industrial and the medical sector. For the plastics industry, the division develops and produces systems for manufacturing pellets – which are used, for example, for the production of PET bottles, as well as being processed further into fibres.

The offerings of Rieter Textile Systems range from complete installations from raw material to end product, subsystems, machines, components, wear and tear parts as well as spare parts to accompanying services from pre sales to after sales.

Worldwide production and service network:

Rieter Textile Systems operates production plants in Western Europe, the Czech Republic, India and China. Textile Systems’ sales and service centres support customers in all those regions of the world where they have installed its production systems or are setting them up.