Oerlikon
Oerlikon 
Oerlikon EvoTape
Oerlikon Management AG, Pfäffikon/Switzerland, will continue to align their Manmade Fibers Segment product portfolio with focus on their core business of filament, staple fiber and nonwovens. As a result, the company will divest their technology solutions for tape and monofilament plants. The Starlinger Group, Vienna/ Austria, will take over the German business unit in Chemnitz – also known under the brand name ‘Barmag Spinnzwirn’. The final closing is planned for the end of the 3rd quarter of 2018.
Barmag Spinnzwirn has been successfully established in the market as an Oerlikon Manmade Fibers Segment unit. It provides their extrusion plants for the production of tape and monofilaments for polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polyamides (PA) and polyester (PET) as turnkey plant-design solutions. Another market success were the recently launched automatic winders, WinTape and WinTape XXL as well as the EvoTape process for film extrusion lines. The technologies for selected high speed winders and precision winders for special applications like aramid or carbon will be sold to Starlinger as well.
In 2015, a new, innovative technology center for R&D and the performance of customer experiments was put into operation. The Chemnitz site currently employs about 160 members of staff.