Germany : Polyester fibres maker Trevira starts production in Poland

On the 12, June, manufacturer of polyester fibres Trevira started production of texturised yarns in Zielona Gora, Poland. As announced at the start of the year, Trevira has transferred to Poland part of production from its plant in Silkeborg, Denmark.

Zielona Gora is only some 60 km from Guben and it is here that Trevira has found and rented a suitable production hall and now the first 13 of some 45 employees have been found and recruited. The manager at the new site is also new to Trevira: Andrzej Majewski is an engineer with some experience of the car industry, most recently in R&D. On July 1, 2006 he takes over as Works Manager at the new site.

“This was bound to be a bitter decision for our colleagues at Silkeborg“, says Trevira CEO Jörg Hellwig. “But there was sadly no alternative to transferring KDK/chenille to a lower cost location. To remain competitive in future we need to make manufacture of products that are especially wage intensive more cost effective.

The only other possibility open to us would have been to remove this product group from the market, which would have had dramatic results on our business overall, since all our big customers in filaments take these special products. With the transfer to Poland and the wage costs in place there, we are again earning with these filament yarns, to the benefit of the Trevira Group”.

Trevira, a company of the Reliance Group, is recognized internationally as the specialist manufacturer of high-tech polyester fibres and filaments, making, in close collaboration with our partners, textile products that epitomise the highest functionality.
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