The zips found on the handbags of major brands are often made by Switzerland's Riri, which was bought by Swiss group Oerlikon in March.
Hermes Luxury hand bags estimated at $20,000 to 26,000 are displayed during a press preview before Christie’s Luxury Week auction, in New York on December 3, 2021 [File Photo: KENA BETANCUR / AFP)
They work with the brand stylists' designs, such as colourful teeth that form a pattern, or pull tabs and sliders that look like jewellery. They are then manufactured in small batches of 60 or more. Its zips are machine-tested at length to check their resilience and ensure that the logos and monograms do not fade with wear.
More recently, Riri sought to expand into physical vapour deposition technology, a process of coating metals to protect against corrosion, which is one of Oerlikon's specialties.Luxury bags' zips are machine-tested at length to check their resilience and ensure that the logos and monograms do not fade with wear.
To break into the luxury sector, in 2021 Oerlikon bought the French company Coeurdor, which makes clasps, rings and belt buckles, and then bought Riri in March 2023. During the Covid-19 pandemic, its coatings were hit by shocks in the aeronautics and automobile industries.
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