Gebrüder Otto gets Oeko-Tex standard 100plus certificate

In 2002, the company was certified as an environmentally friendly and socially responsible production facility in line with the requirements of OEKO-TEX Standard 1000 as the first spinning mill and dye works in Germany. This allows the company to attach the OEKO-TEX Standard 100plus label to its products as well.

Over 100 years of progress and quality

The company started out as Gebr. Otto with a twisting mill in Dietenheim in 1901. The increased demand for textiles following World War II lead to the addition of the sectors dyeing, mercerising and ring spinning. A second spinning mill was added in 1990 despite the general crisis in the German textile industry.

Today it is one of the most modern plants in Europe. 160 employees work at the production facilities in Dietenheim and Unterbalzheim, producing yarn for customers in the sectors circular knitting, flat knitting and weaving as well as for manufacturers of technical textiles (e.g. automotive, hygiene) and medical textiles.

Gebr. Otto focuses on yarns of the highest quality, made from the natural product cotton as well as from fibres from natural raw materials. The company is one of the leading yarn manufacturers, producing an annual output of more than 3000 tons of cotton yarn with modern plants for spinning, twisting, dyeing and yarn mercerising. Customers include renowned clothing manufacturers and brands such as Petit Bateau, Schiesser, Speidel, Mey, eterna, Trigema or Triumph International.

This makes Gebr. Otto one of only a few manufacturers in the textile industry who can maintain their position in Germany, thanks to the appropriate know-how and the required experience. ‘We practise our values from generation to generation rather than from one quarterly profit to the next. And that includes a very strong sense of identification with our employees and our location,’ Andreas Merkel, managing director at Gebr. Otto, points out.