Bio-tampons from Oberlausitz asked worldwide-Bautzener Bote

Hygiene textile products from a small place in Upper Lusatia give millions of women all over the world security.However, the customers usually do not know where the tampons come from, each of which they acquire as a private label (private label) of large retail chains.More than 1.5 billion women's tampons annually, the Ontex Hygiene article Germany GmbH, based in Großpostwitz near Bautzen, launches the market in all commercial sizes;85 percent of them go into export.The largest textile processing company in East Germany with 468 employees and 13 trainees, according to its own statements, will exceed the 65 million euro brand for the first time in sales in 2019.The work of the work had started in 1991 when the ontex group based in Belgium at the location of the former VEB united linen industry, Großpostwitz, founded a subsidiary with initially 65 employees.Since then ontex has invested a total of 95 million.EUR in the building substance as well as in modern plant and logistics technology.

"Our member company has developed very successfully thanks to the targeted commitment of the OnTex Group and of course the steps under its own responsibility," explained Dr.-Ing.Jenz Otto, General Manager of the Association of the North-East German textile and clothing industry E.V.(VTI), Chemnitz, on Wednesday, 4.Dec.2019, at a media appointment in Großpostwitz.He praised the great commitment of the long-standing ontex managing director Jürgen Preusche, which he showed for both his company and as a board member of the VTI.“At the end of the year, Jürgen Preusche will retire deserved.We wish him all the best and his successor Ulrich Merzbach, who was already working with him, maximum success at the head of ontex! ”

As Jürgen Preusche reported, the investment amount in 2019 amounts to 12 million.EUR.“Recently we have the new building of a 1.000 m² floor space measuring production and logistics hall completed. Momentan installieren wir moderne Technik für die Faseraufbereitung; der Testlauf ist für EndeDecember vorgesehen.“The new investments are necessary so that ontex can satisfy the demand for women's tampons made of organic cotton for around two years in a disproportionately increasing demand for women's tampons.The company is internationally one of the pioneers in this special range.The world's coveted innovations come from the company's own research and development center founded three years ago.For organic tampons, only raw materials from controlled organic cultivation are used, which takes place without pesticides, herbicides or gene manipulations.The product unit is ensured by certification of deliveries according to the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS).

„Noch imDecember 2019 erhalten wir zwei neue Automaten für die Bio-Tampon-Fertigung in unserer neuen Halle.However, the expansion options for production by new buildings at the Großpostwitz location are exhausted, ”explained Ulrich Merzbach.“So that we can still expand our bio-tampon business, we create space for new facilities and relocate twelve older machines to the ontex location Mayen in Rhineland-Palatinate.New jobs are created there and with us.We are happy to accept applications for this.“As Ulrich Merzbach emphasizes, OnTex has been tied since 1991 and is therefore attractive for employees in several ways.In addition, the company offers various over -tariff services.Work will be carried out in the context of a shift system that can be planned for the employees (and their relatives).

Ulrich Merzbach will take responsibility from January

After a half -year training phase alongside Jürgen Preusche, Ulrich Merzbach will take over the work management of the OnTex Hygiene article Deutschland GmbH, Großpostwitz from January 2020 from January 2020.The 41-year-old native of Rhineland studied industrial engineering at the technical university in Karlsruhe and in France. Nach zweijähriger Tätigkeit bei der Lufthansa trug er über 14 Jahre lang beim Konzern Procter & Gamble Führungsverantwortung in der Produktion sowie beim Lieferketten-Management in der Sparte Pampers/Windeln.In recent years, Ulrich Merzbach has lived with his family in Warsaw - based on professionally -.In the meantime he has moved to Dresden with his wife, daughter and son.Ulrich Merzbach has a soft spot for foreign languages as well as for excursions and trips.In his free time he likes to cook for family and friends.