Repair Services for Enhanced Competitiveness and Reduced Waste

Repairing defective parts makes both ecological and economic sense. Repairs are often cheaper and quicker to conduct and conserve valuable resources. Over one hundred Rieter repair engineers are deployed globally. After heavy floods devastated a mill in India, they helped restore operations quickly and avoided 1.5 tons of electric waste.

The globally installed base of spinning machines produces a variety of yarns around the clock. Based on demand and utilization even machines and parts that are regularly and perfectly maintained can occasionally show defects and lead to machine breakdowns. More than 100 Rieter repair engineers are well equipped and on standby all over the world to perform all levels of repair and maintain machines for customers.

However, when heavy monsoon rains in 2022 flooded the spinning unit of the vertically integrated denim manufacturing plant of Bhaskar Industries in central India, Rieter’s repair team faced a far greater challenge than in its normal day-to-day business. The water level had risen to more than 1.50 meters inside the machine hall and penetrated all the machines’ electronic components, including inverters. Inverters are crucial components of spinning machines without which they can’t operate.

Rieter’s repair engineers collected and analyzed parts to repair and restore all systems to the greatest extent possible and get the spinning mill up and running again. During three weeks, they repaired and overhauled more than 80 inverters as well as many other important electronic components. This reduced the downtime to a minimum. The complete replacement of the defective components would have taken significantly longer. In addition, the repairs were less expensive than spare parts and more than one and a half tons of electric waste were avoided.

Stepping up Circularity Globally

Rieter has implemented sustainable recycling processes at each of its 27 repair service stations across 22 countries. Every Rieter repair station around the globe can now recycle components and all byproducts of the repair operations in collaboration with specialized local subcontractors.

Sustainability is also key for Rieter in this area. The company is on a mission to support its customers in reducing their environmental footprint by offering sustainable repair solutions, retrofits, upgrades, performance optimization services and re-use of original parts.