Textiles are versatile materials or the basis for functional and flexible applications.
The main research field Flexible Materials creates lightweight and flexible structures by means of textile technologies. Current trends of the markets and modern technical equipment offer customer-related product development and innovation not only for textile companies. Selected initial research investigates new technologies for the manufacturing and functionalising of flexible structures on a textile basis, like fabrics and thread constructions for medical or technical applications.
For multi-focus tasks, these fabrics and thread constructions can be further processed in following research groups like coating or smart textiles.

The main research field Flexible Materials provides also technological solutions for textile companies with the help of technical schools for thread constructions, weaving, braiding, embroidery and three-dimensional knitting, which are also available for customer tests and sample specimen.

Basis for successful research projects as well as for contract research and services is our modern and extensive equipment in our technical labs. We are in the position to realise all individual requirements of our customers along the textile chain from a single thread to the final product.

New applications for textiles in technics, electronics and microsystems technique can be opened up with functional surfaces as they can be created through innovative coatings. Textile boundary surfaces can be changed individually through physical or chemical processes to adapt their properties regarding adsorption, repulsion, porosity, molecular identification or the controlled release of active ingredients.

Technologies like coating or lamination will be further enhanced to assure their process reliability. It is the goal to look for materials and processes to develop functional coatings and laminations with finest structures at the nanoscale. The challenge here is the use of new materials.
Especially electroluminescent substances, conductive polymers or flame-retardant composites are investigated, regarding constructive coating technologies like the galvanic coating of textile structures.
Opening new fields for textiles with functional coatings and creating composite structures with additional properties for applications in technics and microsystems technology is the main focus in our research work. Different technologies like coating and laminating will be enhanced to assure their process reliability.

First results in the development of light shield systems for museums, high-conductive fiber materials and structured conductive surfaces for smart textiles can be presented.
A soil-repellent Sol-Gel finishing, textile electroplating, onesided finishings of three-dimensional textiles and the preparation of textiles for inkjet printing demonstrate our professional competence too.

Electronical assistants like navigation systems or parking distance control systems help us to make life easier. Those small, close and intelligent systems are integrated in our personal and business environment and can even be found in textiles (smart textiles). Clothing, which warms at low temperatures or gloves to phone with are already commercially available.

To realize such functionalities, small electronical components are integrated into textiles or the textile itself is used as a functional unit. The basis for those developments are partial conductive textile structures. Metallized threads whose electrical conductivity is modified with a specific electrochemical finishing treatment – so-called ELITEX® threads – provide the convincing advantage of problem-free textile machining on textile machines.

Textile manufacturing processes like weaving, embroidery, sewing, warp knitting or coating can be used for the integration of new functions for textiles. The resulting textile structures are the basis for the development of textile sensors, highly flexible stimulation electrode systems, actuators, solar cells, textile transdermal therapeutical systems, for the interactive release of active ingredients, luminescent textiles or special heating systems.

Developments for the integration of new functions provide capabilities for further visions. In comparison to conventional products, smart textiles are flexible shapeable and lightweight. They are predestined for applications in automotive and aircraft construction as well as for solutions in medical engineering, wellness, industrial-, home- and protective clothing.

Textiles are versatile materials or the basis for functional and flexible applications.
The main research field Flexible Materials creates lightweight and flexible structures by means of textile technologies. Current trends of the markets and modern technical equipment offer customer-related product development and innovation not only for textile companies. Selected initial research investigates new technologies for the manufacturing and functionalising of flexible structures on a textile basis, like fabrics and thread constructions for medical or technical applications.
For multi-focus tasks, these fabrics and thread constructions can be further processed in following research groups like coating or smart textiles.

The main research field Flexible Materials provides also technological solutions for textile companies with the help of technical schools for thread constructions, weaving, braiding, embroidery and three-dimensional knitting, which are also available for customer tests and sample specimen.

Basis for successful research projects as well as for contract research and services is our modern and extensive equipment in our technical labs. We are in the position to realise all individual requirements of our customers along the textile chain from a single thread to the final product.

New applications for textiles in technics, electronics and microsystems technique can be opened up with functional surfaces as they can be created through innovative coatings. Textile boundary surfaces can be changed individually through physical or chemical processes to adapt their properties regarding adsorption, repulsion, porosity, molecular identification or the controlled release of active ingredients.

Technologies like coating or lamination will be further enhanced to assure their process reliability. It is the goal to look for materials and processes to develop functional coatings and laminations with finest structures at the nanoscale. The challenge here is the use of new materials.
Especially electroluminescent substances, conductive polymers or flame-retardant composites are investigated, regarding constructive coating technologies like the galvanic coating of textile structures.
Opening new fields for textiles with functional coatings and creating composite structures with additional properties for applications in technics and microsystems technology is the main focus in our research work. Different technologies like coating and laminating will be enhanced to assure their process reliability.

First results in the development of light shield systems for museums, high-conductive fiber materials and structured conductive surfaces for smart textiles can be presented.
A soil-repellent Sol-Gel finishing, textile electroplating, onesided finishings of three-dimensional textiles and the preparation of textiles for inkjet printing demonstrate our professional competence too.