Annaberger Straße 240 | 09125 Chemnitz

Founded

1992, emerged from the Research Institute for Textile Technology GmbH (FIFT) Chemnitz and the Institute for Technical Textiles GmbH (ITT) Dresden

Milestones

1974 Foreign exchange sale of a licence for the production of spunbonded nonwovens using the suction air process to the predecessor of Reifenhäuser Reicofil GmbH & Co. KG – the starting point for the STFI's spunbond technology centre and its success | 2000 Foundation of the Nonwovens Competence Centre | 2005 Construction of the new spunbond technology centre | 2006 Institute of Chemnitz University of Technology | 2013 Raw material efficiency award from the BMWi for ‘CarbonWasteCycle – recycling concept for carbon fibre waste’ | 2014 Start of futureTEX – a future model for traditional industries in the fourth industrial revolution | 2015/2016 New construction of the Centre for Lightweight Textile Construction | 2016 futureTEX is an award winner in the ‘Landmark’ competition in the Land of Ideas. | 2023 New building for the Centre for Textile Sustainability is completed. | 2024 Wetlaid nonwovens plant goes into operation.

Managing director

Dr rer. nat. Heike Illing-Günther 

Location(s)

Chemnitz

Workplaces

150 + 7 trainees

Research focus

Textile materials and technologies 

Company philosophy

“As a non-profit institute, we address technical and social issues with an open, interdisciplinary and reliable approach, relying on the expertise of our qualified staff and modern technical equipment. We live the diversity of textile applications together with our industry and research partners: the fascination of textile.”
 

Since its foundation over 30 years ago, the Saxon Textile Research Institute (STFI) has been a strong innovation partner and reliable service provider on behalf of its customers. Textile materials have always characterised its work. STFI's work focuses on technical textiles, nonwovens, lightweight textile construction, functionalisation, recycling, digitalisation and artificial intelligence. In terms of the circular economy, the recovery of high-performance materials such as carbon, glass fibre and basalt, including from composite components, is a current challenge. Against the backdrop of textile sustainability, the institute is researching applications for ecological landscaping and building design, for example, which have borne fruit in the form of floating plant islands and green façade tiles, among other things.