The complex boasts its own spinning and weaving mills, dye shops, finishing plants and sewing lines, employing more than 3,200 people. Tirotex has invested consistently in innovative European textile machinery. The majority of its machines, which assume a key role in relation to quality and productivity, originate in Germany. The overall area of the production halls is equivalent to the size of 58 football pitches. With an annual output of over 200 million square meters of finished fabrics and wovens, Tirotex is one of the biggest textile companies in Europe.
It is export-oriented, manufacturing underwear and home textiles such as bedding, tablecloths, furnishing fabrics and curtains for the global market. Tirotex supplies dyed and printed fabrics made from 100 percent cotton or polyester-cotton blends. The attributes of its wovens meet every customer requirement: they are resistant to water, oil, dust and stains, and do not crease, pill or shrink.
The company spins all the yarns for its fabrics. Tirotex operates 27 Autocoro rotor spinning machines from Schlafhorst. Each year it processes more than 17,000 tons of cotton, primarily from Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan. In the layout of its spinning mill, maximum productivity and a guaranteed yarn quality for downstream processing in the weaving mill are the defining objectives for Tirotex, and so the company has been investing for years in highly productive rotor spinning machines from Schlafhorst. With the new Autocoro 8 Tirotex has now smashed the seemingly unassailable barrier of 150,000 rpm and has thereby increased its production by 18 percent.
Source: Saurer AG
Posted November 4, 2014
Editor’s note: Saurer AG issued the following press release on October 27.
UEBACH-PALENBERG, Germany – Tirotex, Europe's biggest textile company, has succeeded in overturning the practical limit on rotor spinning of 150,000 rpm that has been insurmountable for more than 20 years. On its Autocoro 8 rotor spinning machines from Schlafhorst, Tirotex is spinning high-quality weaving yarns for its own weaving mill at a rotor speed of 160,000 rpm.
This has been made possible by the innovative single-drive technology of the Autocoro 8, which has smashed all the previously applicable productivity barriers.
More than 200 million square meters of wovens
The Tirotex textile company was established in Tiraspol, Moldova, in 1972. It is a vertically integrated manufacturer with a huge industrial complex that has a sophisticated infrastructure and its own power plant.
Tirotex increases production by 18 percent with the Autocoro 8
Tirotex, based in Uebach-Palenberg, Germany, is the largest textile company in Europe.