Terrot Knitting-Machines / Circular Knitting Machines / Rundstrickmaschinen

Terrot Knitting-Machines / Circular Knitting Machines / Rundstrickmaschinen


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	When he founded Terrot-Werke in 1862, Charles Terrot was laying the foundations for a great idea. Today, a workforce of around 350 employees design and produce over 1,000 circular knitting machines a year in two locations.

INTELLIGENCE IN KNITTING SINCE 1862


	1831 - 1888 1891 - 1959 1968 - 1993 1995 - 2006

1891	The first small-diameter circular knitting department was founded in Bad Cannstatt. The latest "American circular knitting machine for the automatic production of seamless hosiery" was launched. These machines soon gained an international reputation, and were renowned for the reliability and precision which had already come to be associated with the name Terrot. The invention of synthetic silk opened up whole new application scope for the knitted fabric industry. Terrot-Werke flourished as the machines were exported to countries around the world.

1903	Following the death of Charles Terrot, the business continued to prosper in the hands of his two sons Karl and Ernst, now trading under the name C. Terrot Söhne. Ernst Künemund, a long-serving and highly capable engineer in the company, later took over general management.

1944	The advent of war took its toll on the company fortunes, reducing the Terrot factories to a pile of rubble on the night of 20th October 1944 and destroying the work of three generations.

1946	With a united effort, work began on rebuilding the Bad Cannstatt site. New production halls were built for universal circular knitting machines, whose new patterning possibilities opened up new markets the world over. Production was barely able to keep pace with demand from around the globe. The death of Franz Terrot in 1947 cast a shadow over the revival of the company's fortunes.

1949	Textilmaschinenbau Wahlstedt, Holstein was founded on March 12, 1949 by Heinz Bierbaum and Heinrich Geerken. Within a development period of just nine months, the firm had created the new Type T100 based on designs by the company Schubert & Salzer.

1955	World markets continued to be dominated by newly developed models such as the FR and FMP, featuring what was then the very latest transfer device for underwear manufacture.

1959	Textilmaschinenbau Wahlstedt, Holstein was taken over and amalgamated under the name C. Terrot Söhne&Co.with new shareholders Hans Terrot and Fritz Künemund, Dr. Lothar Otto and Albrecht Esser.

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