Oerlikon is one of the most well-known brands for the technologies required for manmade fibers. Oerlikon is taking place in the Turkish market through Tekstil Servis Mümessillik for these solutions.

Providing innovative solutions for industrial applications, Oerlikon Group dates back to 1850 and has a long history. The company’s first embroidery machine was produced in 1869, and by 1907 the company took the name of Schweizerische Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon (SWO). In 1936 the company changed its name to Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1980, the Oerlikon-Bührle Group reached a record level in this field with around 37,000 employees. The group that established their first coating center in Italy in 1983, renewed their brand in 2006 as its present-day Oerlikon and reorganized their corporate structure. The group opened their Shanghai headquarters in 2012. In 2013, Oerlikon completed the sale of natural and component plants and focused on the fiber industry. The Group’s Textile Segment was renamed Manmade Fibers Segment.

Today, the group has activities in two segments; Surface Solutions and Manmade Fibers. The group develops solutions for applications such as automotive, aviation, clothing and industrial textile equipment, agriculture, industrial solutions, additive manufacturing, construction and energy. Each segment develops comprehensive and advanced technologies with strategies tailored to the requirement and needs of its markets with well-established industry-leading brands.

Oerlikon activity areas

Oerlikon Group operates globally with 180 facilities in 37 countries. Listed to the Swiss Stock Exchange, the group stands out with solid innovation base and customer relations in Europe, as well as emerging markets such as China and India. Oerlikon also has operations in the US where they have innovation and manufacturing centers.

Oerlikon’s customers are mainly active in the automotive, aerospace, energy, tools, clothing and industrial textile equipment and agriculture industries. The Group has allocated 4% of their CHF 107 million turnover for R&D activities in 2017.

The Group’s most important business line is Manmade Fibers Segment which covers textile solutions. Featuring end-to-end systems covering all steps in the production of manmade fibers from melt to yarn, they develop manmade fiber manufacturing systems with Oerlikon Barmag and Oerlikon Neumag brands. Synthetic textile fibers are more commonly used in functional garments, carpets and furnishing, as well as geotextile materials for road construction and other industrial applications, and technical textiles such as airbags and safety belts. This segment has more than 2,500 employees in 11 facilities worldwide.

Oerlikon Barmag is specialized in large-scale filament spinning and weaving systems for the production and processing of polyester, polyamide and nylon. Oerlikon Neumag develops cutting-edge production systems for the production of continuous filament (BCF) carpet yarns, synthetic fibers and nonwoven surfaces.

There is solution for every application at Oerlikon Nonwoven

Oerlikon Nonwoven will attend the nonwovens fair INDEX 2020, which will be held for the sixth time in Geneva, Switzerland, from March 31 to April 3, 2020. The company will display its solutions for nonwoven market and customer oriented hygiene, medical and other technical applications, and will focus on quality and optimum production process. Oerlikon Nonwoven, based in Neumünster, will demonstrate product and process expertise with the technologies it has developed… read more.

Tomorrow in Manmade Fiber Production: Clean Technology, Smart Factory

Tomorrow in Manmade Fiber Production: Clean Technology, Smart Factory. Oerlikon presented the future of manmade fiber production by attending ShanghaiTex 2019 held on November 25-28 in China. The company’s vision of sustainable and automatic manmade fiber production was emphasized in their booth of 100 m² by ‘Clean Technology. Smart Factory’ motto. Oerlikon has an innovative industrial design with four productive machinery and plant concepts that they launched globally at the ITMA 2019. These innovations, which met the Asian market for the first time at ShanghaiTex, are the new DNA of the Oerlikon Manmade Fiber segment… read more.

Oerlikon Shows the ‘Future’ to Man-Made Fibre Industry

Oerlikon shows the ‘future’ to man-made fibre industry. Providing groundbreaking technologies to the textile industry, Oerlikon continued this tradition at ITMA 2019. Oerlikon Manmade Fibers showed the latest technological developments in the man-made fibre industry and technical textiles to visitors at their thousand square meters booth in Hall 7 at the exhibition which took place in Barcelona from June 20 to 26. ITMA visitors also experienced the vision of sustainable and automated man-made fibres production in a virtual 4D showroom located on the booth. Oerlikon launched 4 solutions at ITMA 2019; WINGS FDY PA6 for polyamide yarns, BCF S8 Tricolor for carpet yarn production, eAFK Evo texturizing machine and VacuFil for polyester recycling… read more.

From Melt to…

… Yarn, Fibers and Nonwovens – With its Oerlikon Barmag and Oerlikon Neumag brands, Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment is the world market leader for manmade fiber filament spinning systems, texturing machines, BCF systems, staple fiber systems, solutions for the production of nonwovens and – as a service provider – offers engineering solutions for the entire textile value added chain… product page.

Filament Yarn (POY/FDY)

The principle behind manufacturing a thread is always the same: spinning pumps press the polymer melt through micro-fine spinnerets under extremely high pressure. The filaments created are then bundled into threads, drawn over godets and wound using a winder… product page.

Nonwoven Material

As an engineering company for a wide range of nonwoven technologies, Oerlikon Neumag provides stand-alone machines and turnkey production lines for almost every type of nonwoven product… product page.

PET Bottle Grade Granulates

With the drastic increase in world population, drinking water is a scarce resource. Optimum conservation and an efficient transport are all the more important for these precious resources. Bottles made of synthetic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are not only practical and unbreakable; because of their low weight, transporting them, also consumes less energy. A further advantage is that the material can be easily recycled… product page.

Multi Tray Storage

The third step of an automatic filament handling line is the intermediate storage… product page.

Automatic Packing

The packing line is the fourth step of an automatic filament handling system. Here the highest degree of customization is required. Therefore it benefits most from AC-Automation filaments – Systems’ general design concept. The end-user’s requirements regarding bobbin packing and box palletizing are extremely variable… product page.

Pallet Finishing

The packed pallet is made ready for dispatch in the finishing line i.e. closed, weighed, labeled; and finally supplied to the commissioning via a delivery buffer… product page.

High Bay Storage

In order to simplify warehousing; which is often very time and space consuming when effected on the manual way; and to integrate the storage management into the automatic product flow the delivery range is completed; by a fully automatic high bay storage system with a connected commissioning sector for truck loading… product page.

Non-textile Applications

Oerlikon Barmag offers a huge selection of gear metering pumps for the non-textiles segment. They cover extremely diverse areas with their highly-efficient pumps; including silicone casting, dynamic mixing and oil spraying… product page.