It is located in the Saxon industrial area Chemnitz-Zwickau. This region was one of the most important industrial areas in Europe until the World War II.

The roots of Oerlikon Barmag at Chemnitz go back to a company foundation of the brothers Carl and Anton Hamel in the year 1866 in Chemnitz. Messrs. Hamel developed to a well-known textile machinery producer in Chemnitz. Here world wide the first twister for rayon filaments was developed and produced. After the World War II the owners of the company were expropriated. Until the German re-unification the enterprise belonged under the name VEB Spinn- und Zwirnereimaschinenbau to the textile machine trust TEXTIMA.

In the year 1991 Barmag took over the company as a fully owned subsidiary.

Based on an experience of about 140 years in the development and production of textile machinery Oerlikon Barmag at Chemnitz develops and produces today winders for synthetic filaments, take-up heads for several materials, air texturing machines, twisters for industrial yarn as well as complete tape-lines and monofilament lines.

80 % of the products are exported. The machines and winders are being operated on all 5 continents.

The customers of the BSZ are producers of synthetic and viscose filaments,  manufacturers of products made of monofilaments (e.g. artificial grass) and film tapes. However, within the scope of supply there are also winders for the carbon filament industry as well as for the production of adhesive tear tapes.

From the OERLIKON BARMAG-Spinnzwirn website