Saurer Group, a leading textile industry group mainly specializing in machinery and components for yarn Processing has just announced the strengthening of the management team of its largest business unit. From 1st of November 2014, Dr. Martin Folini took over the responsibility as CEO of Schlafhorst and Zinser. Jan Rottgering took over the position of General Manager rotor spinning within the business unit, allowing a higher focus on individual product lines. Dr. Folini has a long experience in the textile machinery as well as high precision machinery industry. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich with a PhD.  Dr. Folini has in-depth knowledge of the textile industry from his more than 15 years, something he shares with all the Saurer employees: at Saurer “we live textile”. Saurer unites the spinning brands Schlafhorst and Zinser, the twisting brands of Allma and Volkmann, pre-spinning brand Jintan and the Saurer Embroidery brand along with the Saurer Components division consisting of the brands Accotex, Daytex, Fibrevision, Heberlein, Temco and Texparts. With annual sales around 1,2 billion CHF, 3.800 worldwide employees and locations in Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, USA, China, India and Singapore, the group is well positioned to serve world’s textile.