Gerold Fleissner was a pioneer of the textile, manmade fiber and nonwovens industry. He dIed at 92. With Gerold Fleissner the complete textile industry has lost a visionary person with activity, responsibility and social commitment who enriched the industry with his inventions worldwide.
Cooperation with universities, research institutes, machinery- and textile associations, fiber manufacturers and customers was always a key subject for Gerold Fleissner.
The Fleissner story is a success story of four generations of entrepreneurs, whose chief aims were a high level of development of machines and the satisfaction of their customers. And it is also four generations of employees who have contributed to the fact that the name Fleissner always was a synonym for technical progress.
Gerold Fleissner with the support of his vice president Alfred Watzl constantly developed the nonwovens sector built-up since the sixties, so that Fleissner became one of the leading manufacturers of high-duty processing lines for the nonwovens industry.
The new development of the hydro entanglement system AquaJet allowed the production of a completely new generation of nonwovens. The agreement with Georgia Pacific USA to use their patent for the production of hydro entangled sandwich products with fiber layers and air laid pulp layers made this technology available for Fleissner customers to exclusively produce low-cost standard and also flushable wipes.
