Innovations for textile value creation
Our network pursues the following technical / technological goals::
Innovation line 1
- Development of new resource-efficient technologies for the continuous production of load-adapted textile semi-finished products for fiber-reinforced plastics
Innovation line 2
- Development of innovative technologies for the production of heavy-duty textile structures and semi-finished products with further use of cutting residues and recycled fibers for use in FRP-components
The network faces the following overarching challenges:
Material and structure level
- Optimal combinations in terms of fiber type and fiber type
- Optimal integration of waste fibers and recycled fibers
- Power flow and load path-oriented arrangement of the fibers
- Design of drapable structures with high impregnation ability
- Ensuring low material costs
Process level:
- Design of innovative textile processes by combining them with other processes (paper technology, fiber-blowing technology, tapes, etc.)
- Ensuring minimal fiber damage
- Designing high volume continuous and flexible processes at low cost
As a result, the following effects should be achieved with these innovation lines:
- Qualitative and quantitative optimization of the use of fibers in textile structures and starting materials (“The optimum fiber in the optimum amount at the optimum location”)
- Reduction or avoidance of production waste and waste in the production of semi-finished textile products
- Efficient re-use of already produced production waste
- Efficient reintegration of recycled fibers at a high quality level