Becker Fabrics
Becker Tuche GmbH & Co. KG - work clothing in Aachen , in short: Becker Fabrics is a German textile manufacturer with headquarters in Aachen - fire in the industrial area Im Erdbeerfeld . It emerged in 2012 from Becker &führung Tuche GmbH & Co. KG , founded in 1927, and is one of the last major manufacturers of high-quality fabrics in Germany.
structure
A yarn dyeing factory, the development department and the pattern production of the company were located in Aachen. The actual production took place at the subsidiary Palla Creativ Textiltechnik GmbH & Co. (after the Greek word palla for garment) in St. Egidien in Saxony. The raw material was obtained from another, legally independent plant in Vilnius ( Lithuania ). There was a design office in Verona (Italy).
After several insolvencies with the resulting closures and takeovers as well as changes of name and start-ups, the company Becker Tuche GmbH & Co.KG - work clothing in Aachen , in short: Becker Fabrics , as well as the company Führungs Tuche GmbH in Rastede - remained in Aachen . The former subsidiary Palla also fought several times for survival and was dissolved in 2009.
history
Becker Fabrics emerged from a contract weaving mill founded by Wilhelm Becker in Aachen. In 1952, Becker developed his own collection, marketed under his own name, for the first time, and in 1965 acquired a modern weaving machine from Sulzer AG . In the period that followed, international sales markets were opened up and production facilities expanded. In 1998 Becker took over the insolvent cloth factory from Leo Lassen, the regional chairman of the cloth makers in Aachen, which resulted in the change of name to Becker &führung . He had previously taken over Palla Creativ Textiltechnik GmbH & Co. as a subsidiary and had a new, large, state-of-the-art factory built for it in St. Egidien, which was subsidized with around 100 million German marks by the Free State of Saxony and started operations in 1998.
The Palla company was founded after the Second World War and at the beginning of the emergence of the GDR as a nationalized amalgamation of several existing textile companies in the region around Meerane . In 1970 all textile companies in the region around Meerane and Glauchau were merged to form the Palla textile works with up to 4,400 employees at the time. With the end of the GDR, the company was privatized in 1995.
With the lifting of the global export restrictions for textiles from Asia in 2005, however, the economic problems of the German textile industry worsened, and in this context the group’s cloth production also fell from over 15 to 8 million linear meters per year and the Becker group had to file an initial bankruptcy. The Daun Group had already been involved as an additional financial investor since 2004 .
Becker / Palla was able to be renovated within a year, which, however, resulted in the loss of more than half of all jobs. The production was switched from mass to smaller quantities of higher quality goods. An in-house design office was set up in Verona and the fabrics were certified according to ecological criteria. The company Hecking Deotexis , a manufacturer of denim fabrics in Neuenkirchen in the Steinfurt district , was taken over in 2007. At the beginning of the 21st century, the Becker / Palla group had around 1,000 employees, a good half of them in St. Egidien. In 2006, 185 people were still working in the Aachen plant, 450 at Palla and 200 in Lithuania. In 2007, the turnover of the Becker & Fühnen / Palla Group (including Hecking Deotexis) was almost 100 million euros.
In autumn 2008, due to the global economic crisis with falling demand for luxury goods, bankruptcy had to be filed again and in March 2009 the final closure of the plant in St. Egidien for June of that year was decided. In these bankruptcies, the company names were changed and the managing directors exchanged several times. Ultimately, in the spring of 2012, the core company Becker &führung was broken up and the property was sold. Among other things, Tuchwerk Aachen e. V. the Stockheider mill and several machines for their plans for a new textile museum. As the successor to Becker &führung , the two companies Lassen Tuche GmbH in Rastede and, since April 5, 2012, were founded as Becker Fabrics in Aachen. At the same time, the company's headquarters in Aachen were relocated from the abandoned and ailing factory on Niederforstbacher Strasse to the new Im Erdbeerfeld industrial estate .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Becker Fabrics homepage
- ↑ Company data and history of Palla Creativ Textiltechnik GmbH & Ko KG on North Data
- ↑ A strong shoulder for the Becker cloth factory , in: Aachener Nachrichten of May 26, 2004
- ↑ Textile: Palla the end is sealed ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release on fau.org from October 23, 2009
- ↑ Company data Palla Creativ Textiltechnik GmbH & Ko KG on North Data
- ↑ Stephan Mohne: Fight over: Becker gives up , in: Aachener Zeitung from January 12, 2012
- ↑ Company data lead Tuche GmbH Rastede to North Data
- ^ Extract from the commercial register of Becker Tuche GmbH & Co. KG (HRA 8073)
- ↑ New entry and sales figures Becker Tuche GmbH & Co. KG , Aachen , on North Data
