Cetex Institute non-profit organization
Cetex is the application-oriented research institute in Germany for new technologies and machines for the production of technical textiles, textile-based semi-finished products, functional components and high-performance structures.
Focus of work: process development, machine development
Read more→IST – Institute of Lightweight Structures at Chemnitz University of Technology
Among others, the Department of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology (SLK) and the Professorship Textile Technologies (TT) are affiliated with the Institute. The IST is a central part of major research projects at the Chemnitz University of Technology.
Focus of work: simulation of FRP components and processes, prototype production of textile reinforcing semi-finished products
Read more→Saxon Textile Research Institute e.V. STFI
The research activities at the Centre of Excellence in Nonwovens and the Innovation Centre for Technical Textiles at STFI cover everything from fiber preparation, yarn processing and fabric formation as well as different ways of finishing up to the recycling technologies of technical textiles and developments thereof.
Focus of work: Textile reinforcing structures, testing, recycling
Read more→Fraunhofer Research Center STEX
The Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU is an engine for innovations in the research and development of production technologies. Our scientific research and contract research focuses on components, processes and the associated complex machine systems – the entire factory.
Focus of work: Hybrid constructions
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