Interview with Mr Roland JP Zimmer

Recently renamed to Zimmer America Corporation was founded in 1985 by Roland J P Zimmer, its majority shareholder and CEO. Before that it was the wholly owned subsidiary of Zimmer Austria called Johannes Zimmer Service and Sales on the same location since 1970. The company served as a branch office in the USA for Zimmer Austria. After 1985 manufacturers representations were added to compliment the production program of Zimmer and to better serve the American customers with a full product range centered on the printing machine business of Zimmer. The next expansion was the USA based production of spare parts and complete machines for the textile industry. A 30,000 sq ft manufacturing facility was built in 1999. Zimmer America’s own product lines were added in the 1990 and include JIGMATIC Jig Dyeing Machines, atmospheric and high temperature, and ESCH Textile Flocking Systems for roll to roll flocking on textile and other substrates came on board in 2005. Today, Zimmer America has expanded the business far beyond supplying, installing and servicing textile machinery. The new business groups include: RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS, from textile fibers to PET bottle to bottle recycling, and SOLAR POWER Systems, from residential domestic hot water to commercial and industrial solar thermal installations to photovoltaic solar electricity for homes and businesses. Mr Roland JP Zimmer, CEO of Zimmer America, was born in Austria in 1956. He did his degree in mechanical engineering from Austria and joined Zimmer Austria in 1975. Since 1985 he has been appointed as CEO of Zimmer. In a one to one with Face2Face team, Mr Roland Zimmer paints word picture of present textile machinery market across the globe