Nuevo sitio web en marcha

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We are very happy to introduce our new website. This will enable us to give you more information in the future, with videos, leaflets and parts / instruction books of the Global line.

There is a lot happening in the sewing machine world. Zoje machine company from China has purchased a major part of the shares in Durkopp / Adler from Bielefeld. This was necessary because the previous Chinese shareholder Shanggong was and is a very weak company with a very poor management. From day one it was clear that there was no ground for success with this cooperation. We wish this new cooperation a lot of success, but I hope that they will not try to invent the wheel again. Many people try this and they fail, because there are new rules in the industrial sewing machine world and the old fashioned ideas are over.

The market is very strange after the terrible year 2009, in which the market collapsed in a big way. I am so glad that 2010 is a lot better. Because of this terrible year in the industry, a lot of machine and parts suppliers fired a lot of staff or went down completely. All of this results in longer delivery times for machines and parts. The raw material, labour salaries and energy costs are going up dramatically, which will result in higher prices for now and in the future.

This is reality for the future, but to be honest, I think that the selling price of a new machine is so low and the clothing manufacturer can work for so many years on that machine, so the cost price per day per machine is next to nothing.

I hope you like my first internet newsletter and I will always try to write sharp opinions in the future.

Warm regards,

Frans de Vlieger