Lindauer DORNIER GmbH and its Weaving Machine, Specialty Machine and Composite Systems divisions has earned its place as a global technology leader. In 2017, the family-owned German company with about 1,000 employees (including 63 trainees) recorded incoming orders totaling about 280 million euro. The weaving machines from DORNIER meet all of the requirements that are essential for modern fabric production: flexible, gentle material insertion, an exceptionally broad spectrum of material and pattern capabilities, absolute functional reliability, flawless goods and short standstill times. The DORNIER system family, consisting of rapier and air-jet weaving machines, is the contemporary answer to the unforgiving catalog of specifications demanded by today’s market. The machines are manufactured in the production workshops at Lindau in Germany. 90% of the machines produced are exported.

Unrivaled in volume, unique in the sector: While weavers in the clothing and home textiles industry use weaving machines from DORNIER to make carpet, garments and suits from wool, silk or cotton, technical weavers use the same machines to manufacture high-performance fabrics for satellites, aircraft and cars with carbon, glass and aramid fibers. This extraordinary versatility in processing different materials and yarns is based on over 60 years of design and development experience in building rapier and air-jet weaving machines. The machines of the DORNIER system family process up to 16 different yarns precisely, gently and flawlessly. Weavers of high-performance items such as airbags, which inflate in the space of 150 milliseconds (0.15 seconds), must satisfy the most stringent of quality requirements. Either the fabric is flawless or it is unusable for saving lives. DORNIER is the market leader in weaving machines for manufacturing "one piece woven" airbags: Two out of three airbags and three quarters of all automobile tires in the world begin their journeys on machines made beside Lake Constance. From America and across Europe to Asia: Thanks to a machine concept that has proven successful for decades and is still being refined continuously, weaving machines from DORNIER are the first choice of the modern weaver, not only for mass production items abut also for highly specialized small batches