| 1884 | Company foundation of W. Schlafhorst |
| 1902 | Patents for a pirn winding machine and a cone winding machine |
| 1914 | Eugen Zinser registrates the first Zinser spindle at the Kaiserliches Patentamt (Imperial Patent Office) |
| 1931 | Beginning of the automation of pirn winding |
| 1949 | Foundation of Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH |
| 1955 | ITMA in Brussels - complete ring spinning line including card, draw frame, roving frame and ring
spinning machine |
| until 1960 | Presentation of various models of cone winding machines M 3, BKN, IKN in the market |
| 1962 | Autoconer 107 - the first automatic package winding machine by Schlafhorst
Setup of Zinser Far-East in Hongkong |
| 1963 | Opening of the plant in Übach-Palenberg for assembling of components |
| 1967 | ITMA in Basel - cotton ring spinning machine 317 with automatic doffing system CO-WE-MAT |
| 1968 | Further automation due to development of the package doffer and bobbin preparation |
| 1970 | Foundation of branch Zinser Maschinenbau in Oberviechtach |
| 1974 | Beginning of the Autocoro development |
| 1977 | Autoconer 138 with separation of electrics, pneumatics and mechanics |
| the 70ies | Development of the splicing technology |
| 1982 | Delievery of the 100,000 Autocoro spinning position |
| the 80ies | Strong trend for automation, development of the automatic material flow |
| 1983 | Schlafhorst AG & Co. becomes majority shareholder of Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH |
| 1987 | Autoconer 238 - Single spindle machine with splicer automatic |
| 1988 | Delievery of the 1,000,000 Autocoro spinning position |
| 1989 | Autocoro 240 with the SE 9 spin box and rotor speed to 130,000 minˉ¹ |
| 1991 | Takeover of Schlafhorst by the Saurer Group
Autoconer System 238 - Introduction of the Caddy-Transport-System for Type D, Type V |
| 1992 | Introduction Autocoro with 2 Piecer Carriages |
| 1994 | First certification ISO 9001 |
| 1995 | ITMA in Milan - ring spinning machine generation 350 / 450 |
| 1997 | Autoconer 338 - sensor-controlled winding process
ATME in Greenville - automated roving frame RO-WE-MAT 670 |
| 1999 | Introduction Belcoro
ITMA in Paris - compact spinning machine AIR-COM-TEX 700 and spinfinger machine PRO-FIT-SPIN 800
Takeover of spindle bearing production from SKF |
| 2001 | Autocoro - Coromat detached the Piecer Carriage
ITMA ASIA in Singapore - fully-automated installation including roving frame RO-WE-MAT 670 and ring
spinning machine Zinser 351 |
| 2002 | CITME in Beijing - compact spinning technology for short and long staple spinning
new brand CompACT³ |
| 2003 | Autocoro 360
Integration of Zinser Textilmaschinen GmbH into Saurer GmbH & Co. KG.
Therefore the company was renamed into Zinser, Zweigniederlassung der Saurer GmbH & Co. KG |
| 2005 | ITMA ASIA in Singapore - ring spinning machine Zinser 351,
combination of conventional/compact & fancy yarn/high speed |
| 2006 | CITME in Beijing - Zinser 360, first ring spinning machine produced at Saurer Suzhou |
| 2007 | Member of the technology group OC Oerlikon
ITMA in Munich: Autoconer 5; Autocoro 480, Autocoro S 360; Corolab XF |
| 2009 | Launch of rotorspinning machine BD 416 at ITME in India
Introduction of world's longest ringspinning machine Zinser 351 with 1680 spindles |
| 2010 | Launch of Autoconer X5
Consolidation of all German Oerlikon Schlafhorst locations into one headquarter unit in Übach Palenberg |
| 2011 | ITMA Barcelona: Autocoro 8, BD 448 |