Mr. José Geraldes has been appointed Managing Director of Spindelfabrik Suessen GmbH, Germany, with effect from July 1 last.
Working for Bosch in Stuttgart, his areas of operation were Homburg/Saar and in Brazil where he was in charge of hydraulics/pneumatics and diesel fuel injection systems. After his return to Stuttgart, he was active in the business domain New Products in the diesel injection pumps sector.
In 1999, Mr. Geraldes took up a new job at Groz-Beckert KG. In over 11 years of working for this company he was engaged in various technical functions. Among others, he was head of a subsidiary in Portugal for many years.
After his return to the parent company, Mr. Geraldes was head of the centre for technology and development and finally head of the division for weaving accessories and weaving preparation. This included plants in Germany, Switzerland, China and the Czech Republic.
In 2010, Mr. Geraldes became Managing Director of Christian Bauer GmbH + Co. KG.
SUESSEN is the acknowledged leader in open-end and compact spinning technology.
SUESSEN’s EliTe Compact Spinning System has been sold for over 10 million spindles and has established itself as the most versatile compact ring spinning system. The existing ring spinning machines of various manufacturers can be upgraded to compact spinning, using SUESSEN EliTe CompactSet.
The well-known Open-End SpinBoxes SE 7, SE 8, SE 9 and SE 10 were developed and manufactured by SUESSEN.
The SpinBox generations of SC series are delivered to the rotor spinning machine manufacturer Rieter in Switzerland. In total, SUESSEN has manufactured over 3.5 million SpinBoxes.