Joh. Jacob Rieter & Co.

Johann Jacob Rieter opened his first trading business in Winterthur with exotic spices and cotton in 1795. In the early 19th century it became manufacturng company and built its own spinning mills. Over susequent decades the company diversifiedfrom spinning machine manufacturing into various areas such as transmissions, turbines, machine tools, generators, motors, tracks, trams, rifles, bridges, looms, embroidery machines, doubling and winding machines. It remained in the family until 1925. From 1915 it refocussed on spinning machine construction. The company still exists as Rieter and is one of the world’s leading supplier of systems for manufacturing yarn from staple fibers in spinning mills.