Yarn to Satisfy All the Needs of a Customer with a High-Performance IT Infrastructure

Noyfil, a company specializing in the production of continuous polyester yarn, was looking to overhaul its application support infrastructure to enhance the management of its special yarn production process. The company was keen to break away from the typical approach in the manufacturing sector, where there is a tendency to adopt the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. The rationale for this attitude is the level of investment—which can run into the millions—that is required when upgrading production facilities, which have a much longer service life than IT infrastructures, which need to be replaced before they become obsolete. However, with relatively moderate investments, it is possible to achieve a quantum leap in performance and ease of management.

Noyfil, which has been on the market for almost 50 years, now specializes in the production of continuous polyester yarn. Based in Stabio, in the Swiss canton of Ticino, the company is part of the Fibers Area of the RadiciGroup, an Italian multinational that aims to offer a diversified range of products with a reduced environmental impact in the yarn sector and contribute to the revival of the textile and fashion industry, one of the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic, in the name of the circular economy. Noyfil, a production company located in Switzerland, produces specialized yarns made with special additives using new technological developments in a well-established polyester fiber market. This all begins with an increasing volume of recycled polyester fibers made using post-consumer bottles or plastics/microplastics recovered from lakes and seas. The company uses the pellets formed from crushed bottles to produce the polymer in-house, and then spins it into thousands of different colors with special properties such as anti-bacterial, anti-UV, and flame-retardant, used in weaving and clothing to prevent fabrics from catching fire. In addition to promoting recycling, the company strives to reduce waste in production processes and use alternative sources of energy in accordance with the Group's strategy. RadiciGroup is involved in multiple areas of production, working with a variety of materials including chemicals, technopolymers, fibers, and nonwovens. It has 3,000 employees in 15 countries around the world, 100 of whom are employed at the Noyfil plant; the Group closed the 2020 financial year with consolidated sales of EUR 1,019 million.