Original parts as a special offer only one mouse click away

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On its action platform, the SECOS online shop of Oerlikon Textile now offers its customers also original parts as special offers with rebates of up to 70 per cent

Mönchengladbach, 12 November 2008 ? Oerlikon Textile, segment of the Oerlikon group and leading producer of textile machines and plants, grants its customers, as exceptional offers for original parts for machines of the sectors man-made fibres, staple fibres, nonwovens and embroidery, rebates of up to 70 per cent. The list prices for the more than 200 offers are between approx. 10 Euro-Cent for small parts and approx. 30,000 Euro for big parts. „Here our customers have the possibility to grab a bargain. Therefore, a look into our SECOS is always profitable??, says Werner Senti, project manager of the „ <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> Superior E-Commerce Services?? at Oerlikon Textile. The access to the system is possible for all registered customers under www.secos.myoerlikon.com and the menu item „Sonderangebote/Special Offers??.

Frequency inverters, pumps, spindles, gear motors ? more than 200 offers of all kinds are constantly available on the action platform and are continuously restored. Normally the components remain valid for some weeks and wait for the quickest online buyer. „The correct selection is easy. The offered parts are already assigned to the respective machine or there is a detailed description, partly with a photo??, says Senti.

Access is possible for all Oerlikon Textile customers who are registered in the SECOS system or who log-in online and fill in the respective form. However, the release Is limited for the individual business unit: a Barmag customer, for example, can only buy special offers from this company. Correspondingly, the business units Oerlikon Neumag, Oerlikon Saurer and Oerlikon Schlafhorst offer bargains to their

                      The action platform is part of the SECOS E-Commerce System in the customer portal myOerlikon.com, an online shop that is, in this form, unique in the textile machinery industry. In the meantime, more than 6,000 registered customers use the advantages of SECOS:

Global online access around the clock,

Continuous updating of prices and availabilities,

Just-in-time buying with shortest possible delivery time thanks to quick and automated procedures,

Navigation in, at present, nine languages,

Comfortable ordering by means of direct entry of the article number or selection of the components by means of exploded drawings of machines and equipment,

Monitoring of the order and delivery process by means of ordertracking.