History

 

1920

Foundation of the company by Mr. Schurr and Mr. Grill - Manufacture and development of spindles and spindle drive units

1946

Cooperation with the company Wilhelm Stahlecker GmbH (WST)

1950

Complete modernization of ring spinning frames

1966

Foundation of the American Suessen Corporation (ASC) - Sales and Service Organization

1971

OE SpinBox with TwinDisc bearing for rotor speeds up to 80,000 rpm

1978

First Schlafhorst Autocoro rotor spinning machine with SpinBoxes, SpinCat and CleanCat by SUESSEN

1984

Introduction of the new opening roller type SOLIDRING

1988

New HP-A 310/320 Top Weighting Arm for processing short-staple fibres, followed by HP-A 410 for short-staple roving frames and HP-A 510 for worsted ring spinning frames

1992

Foundation of Suessen Asia Private Limited, India
Manufacture of components and complete Fiomax ring spinning machines

1991

ITMA Hannover: presentation of the SUESSEN Fiomax ring spinning machine and of the RingCan method

1998

Introduction of the new SC and SQ SpinBox generation for the modernization of rotor spinning machines

1999

Introduction of EliTe®Compact Spinning System on ITMA Paris

2001

Rieter Group takes a minority share participation in SUESSEN

2002

Introduction of the SC-R SpinBox for the new Rieter R 40 rotor spinning machine

2003

Introduction of EliTwist®, EliCore®, EliCoreTwist®, ProFiL®Rotors

2004

Cooperation with Jingwei Textile Machinery Co. Ltd. for the Chinese Market

2005

Rieter acquires 100% of SUESSEN
SUESSEN still operates as an independent company

2005

SUESSEN sells the 1,000,000th EliTe®CompactSpindle

2006

SUESSEN sells the 1,500,000th EliTe®CompactSpindle 

2006

Introduction of the new HP-GX 3010 Top Weighting Arm for short staple ring spinning machines

2007

SUESSEN sells the 2,500,000th EliTe®Compact Spindle

2007

Introduction of the new HP-GX 4010 Top Weighting Arm for short staple roving machines and HP-GX 5010 Top Weighting Arm for worsted ring spinning machines

2007

EliTe®CompactSet V5
introducing EliVario, EliVAControl

2007

Introduction of COREflex®
the SUESSEN core yarn system for ring spinning machines