MÖNCHENGLADBACH - Trützschler Card Clothing is investing €12 million at its site in Neubulach, Germany, as it looks to expanding its production, warehouse and office capacities.
With a focus on climate neutrality, the move into the new building is planned for 2024 with the upgrade also expanding the range of services and the production intensity at the site while optimizing the process flows.
With the expansion, the number of employees in Neubulach will also significantly increase, opening up new opportunities for young people looking for an apprenticeship. In the coming years, Trützschler Card Clothing will hire apprentices for roles including industrial mechanics specialising in
production technology, industrial clerks and warehouse logistics specialists. "By expanding our business here in Neubulach, we are strengthening our presence in this area and our leading global market position too," said managing director Peter Gäbler.
TCC employs more than 130 people in Germany, with a further 220 people employed worldwide at locations in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey and
the USA. Trützschler Group SE is also investing in India to build a new site with over 100,000 square metres for the Spinning, Card Clothing and Nonwovens business units. "It is important to be close to the customer worldwide because our foreign companies make a significant contribution to the success of the Group," added Gäbler.
TCC achieved another record sales result in 2021. Demand for the technology components for carding fibres in spinning mills and for carding in nonwovens production has increased significantly. The steel sawtooth wires, which are wound onto coils and produced for customers around the globe, eventually get worn down by use in production processes – so it is necessary to replace them regularly. For this reason, further growth is expected in 2022 and beyond.
The new building will expand the warehouse and logistics area by 600 square metres, resulting in an eventual total area of 2,800 square metres. In the optimized cube of the new hall, a modern warehouse system will double the storage capacity while there will also be a fully automated warehouse for coils for sawtooth wires. During the construction phase, logistics and shipping will be temporarily outsourced to Pforzheim-Büchenbronn.
Overall, the production area will be expanded from 4,000 to 5,400 square metres which, the company says, will enable the process flows to be optimized while the office space will be increased to 1,000 square metres.
An additional level of the building will provide modern workplaces for administration and sales. The new building will also improve access and exit routes for truck traffic. This will provide considerable relief for the local neighborhood in terms of noise emissions and other factors with all contracts for planning, construction and air conditioning technology have been awarded to local companies.
In the future, TCC said it would operate its production facility in Neubulach in a climate-neutral manner, contributing important progress toward achieving the ambitious climate goals of the Trützschler Group.
The new production facility will meet the highest requirements for energy efficiency and climate protection. Specifically, heating is provided by process heat recovery and geothermal energy. In addition, the company produces green electricity via its own solar panels.
Trützschler Group is divided into four business units: Spinning,
Nonwovens, Man-Made Fibers, and Card Clothing with machines, installations and accessories produced and developed in ten locations worldwide. This includes four factories in Germany (Dülmen, Egelsbach, Mönchengladbach, Neubulach), as well as sites in China (Jiaxing and Shanghai), India (Ahmedabad), the USA (Charlotte), Brazil (Curitiba) and Switzerland (Winterthur).
Service companies in Turkey, Mexico, Uzbekistan and Vietnam and
service centers in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia provide customer proximity in key regions
