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For more than eighty years, Picanol has played a pioneering role in the global textile industry and it is currently the world’s leading weaving machine manufacturer. Picanol develops, manufactures, and sells high-tech weaving machines based on airjet and rapier technology. Picanol offers upgrade kits, spare parts, training, troubleshooting services and also digital services for its weaving machines through PicConnect. Picanol has its headquarters in Ieper (Belgium) and it employs more than 1,200 people worldwide.

Picanol is part of Picanol Group, a business unit of Tessenderlo Group (Euronext: TESB). Tessenderlo Group is a global industrial group that focuses on agriculture, valorizing bio-residuals, machinery, mechanical engineering, electronics, energy, and industrial solutions for water management. At the heart of the strategy of the group lies the conviction that “Every Molecule Counts”: in everything Tessenderlo Group does, it seeks to further valorize its products and its processes, and to add value. For more information about Tessenderlo Group, please visit www.tessenderlo.com.

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