Trade Association Textile Machinery
Welcome to the Textile Machinery Association
VDMA Textile Machinery represents around 150 manufacturers of machinery, equipment, components, accessories and software for the production of textile materials – from spinning to the production of textile fabrics and finishing. They represent about 90 percent of the total industry volume in Germany.
About 13 percent of our members come from Austria, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden and Great Britain. We are committed to increasing the competitiveness of our members and ensuring the future viability of the textile machinery industry. The focus is on representing the economic and technical interests of the sector. We also offer our members a network for the exchange of experience and specialist services on various focal points.
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Young engineers with top achievements
At the Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt, the Chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA, Peter D. Dornier, presented awards to six successful young engineers. Promotion and sustainability prizes were awarded in the categories bachelor/project theses and diploma/master theses.
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Statement: Rainer Mestermann, Mahlo
Mahlo GmbH offers a range of smart technology solutions for technical textiles, textile coating and nonwovens manufacturing, focusing on process control and quality assurance with web gauging systems. Some of the key offerings ...
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Statement: Alexander Mandel, Brückner Textile Technologies
We will be happy to show you in person how you can benefit from our innovative technologies at Techtextil in Frankfurt from April 23-26, 2024 in Hall 12.0, Stand B54. Nowadays, it is more important than ever to automate processes and make them ...
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VDMA members at Techtextil: Focus on automation and digitalisation
Techtextil, taking place end of April in Frankfurt, will see a strong participation of VDMA member companies. More than 50 members will be presenting smart technologies for technical textiles in various application areas, seven of them at the VDMA group stand. A focus of the exhibitors will be on automation and digitalisation.
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Statement: Mathias von der Trenck, Groz-Beckert
To address the increasing shortage of qualified personnel, the Digital Ecosystem of Groz-Beckert's product area Nonwovens offers various digital tools. The Digital Ecosystem enables nonwovens producers to optimize and automate their production ...
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Statement: Dr. Ralf Pleva, Pleva Senors and Controls
MAKE COMPLEX PROCESSES TRANSPARENT AND EFFICIENT Advanced technology for energy-efficiency and sophisticated processes at Techtextil 2024 Making processes more cost-effective, sustainable, transparent, and above all more efficient, is exactly ...
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Statement: Alexandre Butté, ANDRITZ Laroche
Textile Recycling Enters a New Era Textile recycling in Europe is now evolving with a sense of urgency as it becomes clear that the discarding of garments and apparels of clothing represent a major threat to the environment. Governments are now ...
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Monforts to debut the coaTTex at Techtextil 2024
At the upcoming Techtextil show for technical textiles which will take place in Frankfurt from April 23-25, Monforts will launch its new coaTTex coating unit exclusively dedicated to air knife and knife-over-roller coating.
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