Groz-Beckert History
Earlier company descriptions, brand line-ups, store counts and photographs from the history of Groz-Beckert, kept for historical reference.
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The Company Description of Its Time
Every sewn seam in this directory passes through a needle, and Groz-Beckert is the company filed here for making them. The historical record describes the world's leading provider of industrial machine needles, precision parts and fine tools, as well as systems and services for the production and joining of textile fabrics. Around the world its products and services support the textile processes of knitting and warp knitting, weaving, felting, tufting, carding and sewing. The company was founded in 1852, employs around 7,700 people and turned over about 665 million euro in 2016 - figures the filing dates, and which should be quoted with that year.
Why the Needle Decides the Seam
The filing's most interesting passage is a short essay on an unchanging process. The technology surrounding industrial sewing has remained practically unchanged over many centuries; machines have made tremendous strides, but stitch formation itself has seen no major change - and that applies to the function of the single most important spare part in any sewing machine: the needle. Under those conditions, the starting point for sewing success is the tool. Groz-Beckert's innovations are aimed at helping sewing operations adapt to continuous change and ever more stringent requirements from producers and end products, with a needle providing precision and performance.
The product families named for further reading show how far beyond sewing one needle company reaches: sewing needles, knitting needles, tufting needles, felting needles and carding. Each textile process has its own pointed tool, and this profile's maker supplies all of them - which is why a machinery supplier belongs in a fashion company names directory at all. Without needles at industrial precision, none of the garments profiled on the neighbouring pages could be produced at scale.
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