Spengler & Prince
| Spengler & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1837 |
| Seat | Crimmitschau |
| Branch | Textile industry |
| Website | www.spengler-fuerst.de |
The Spengler & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG is a traditional textile company based in Crimmitschau .
Company history
The company was founded in 1837 by Carl Spengler as a " Buckskin , Cheviot and worsted yarn factory ". Since then, the Crimmitschau company has consistently concentrated on the production of high-quality cloth goods for men's outerwear, despite many interim economic crises .
The products were also exported worldwide early on. The company's products were awarded prizes at the world exhibitions in London in 1851 ( Great Exhibition , first ever industrial exhibition ), Paris in 1855 and Chicago in 1893 ( World Columbian Exposition ).
After the end of the Second World War and the founding of the GDR , the company was one of the few cloth factories in Crimmitschau that initially remained privately owned and was only nationalized in 1972. Until the dissolution of the GDR in 1989, almost all Spengler & Fürst products (mainly pure new wool fabrics ) were exported to western countries.
With the re-privatization in 1990, the company practically had to start from scratch, but since 1991 has again been producing high-quality worsted fabrics in difficult scrapping from pure new wool from European yarn suppliers and now additionally wool blends ( with a modernized machine park (winding, twisting, warping and weaving). Trevira / Wool and others). The previously in-house dye works was closed and the equipment was outsourced. A bespoke tailoring shop is also part of the company today.
Today the cloth factory Spengler & Fürst mainly exports to the old German federal states, to Western Europe and the Far East.
The continuation of this production is of particular importance for the traditional textile town of Crimmitschau (which was therefore formerly known as the “town of 100 chimneys”), as this textile industry almost completely collapsed after the fall of the Wall.
For several years, Spengler & Fürst has been working on the development of recyclable textile-plastic composite materials for use in automotive equipment. The company is therefore one of the "industrial partners" of the conveyor technology professorship at the Institute for General Mechanical Engineering and Plastics Technology in the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the Technical University of Chemnitz . It is also a partner and sponsor of the applied arts department in Schneeberg, textile design course , of the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau (FH).
The company's location in Crimmitschau is Carl-Spengler-Straße, named after the company's founder .