It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Rieter AG

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

17 April 2025

2 minutes

With 230 years of experience, strong innovative power, sustainable solutions and a global sales and service organization, Rieter is perfectly positioned as the market leader and looks to the future with confidence.

Rieter Celebrates 230 Years of Innovation and Technology Leadership

Winterthur, Switzerland: Rieter has stood for pioneering innovation in textile technology for 230 years. Founded in 1795, the company has grown from a trading company to a global technology leader. With a clear focus on automation, digitization and sustainability, Rieter is shaping the future of yarn production and continues to set standards in the...

PRESS RELEASE / Announcement

6 November 2024

4 minutes

Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for manufacturing yarn from staple fibers in spinning mills.

Rieter, ARISE IIP, and Afreximbank Sign Framework Agreement for Africa Textile Renaissance Plan

Winterthur, Switzerland: ARISE IIP, the pan-African developer and operator of world-class industrial parks, has partnered with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Rieter, the world’s leading supplier of systems for manufacturing yarn from staple fibers in spinning mills. The unprecedented partnership will spearhead the “Africa Textile...

Going Circular / Texcircle

11 December 2022

7 minutes

The Texcircle project focused on shared materials/quantities and created prototypes to demonstrate the impact of secondary raw materials in products to show which processes need to be adapted for a circular economy.

Textile Recycling as a Collaborative Effort: Texcircle Project Shows the Way

The Swiss textile recycling project Texcircle, which ended a month ago, showed exactly how a group of organisations can make it work together by contributing their own know-how, efforts, finances and materials. Tina Tomovic, Senior Research Associate of the project at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, which helmed the project, and Prof Brigitt Egloff tell texfash.com how the project worked, and what should be the way forward for textile recycling.