Leopold Schoeller
Leopold Schoeller was the President & CEO of yarn spinners Schoeller Textil which is under new ownership and is now concentrating spinning operations in Litvinov (Czech Republic).
Last year, Leopold was headhunted to troubleshoot Austria's Vosen towels and has increased the firm's efficiency by over 40%.
"Since the old 1980s days of Platts Masterspinner, Alan Parker's technology is well known to our spinning company Schoeller Textil. The Masterspinner yarn was well accepted by customers who needed a softer handle of the fabric than Rotor yarn could provide."
"At that time it was not the spinning technology, but the poor engineering of it, and more particularly, the lack of a reliable piecing-up automation of the machine, which caused the failure of the Masterspinner."
"The customers liked the yarn and paid up to 25% more than for rotor yarn out of the same cotton feedstock."
"It is much easier to incorporate direct driven Roller-Air spin-boxes as retrofit to existing say Schlafhorst Autocoros SE Models . The intellectual property commercialsation licensor does not need to design and build the whole machine including automation and so the industrial and the financial risk for the licensor as well as for the purchaser (i.e. the spinner) is much lower."
