Swiss-based Rieter is a leading supplier of products and services for the textile, automotive and plastics industries. Rieter's worldwide workforce totals approximately 13500 employees, some 13% of whom are based in Switzerland.
Rieter Textile Systems supplies technologies for producing nonwovens, a segment with numerous applications ranging from the hygiene to the industrial and the medical sector. For the plastics industry, the division develops and produces systems for manufacturing pellets – which are used, for example, for the production of PET bottles, as well as being processed further into fibers.