Mühlenstraße 7 | 09669 Frankenberg 

Founded

1815 by Gottlob Gärtner, great-great-great-great-grandfather of the current managing director Justus Rau = over 200 years of family tradition

Milestones

1815 Start as a printing company with wooden models | 1828 Uhlemann & Lantzsch OHG | 1972 VEB Wirkwarendruck | 1990 Reprivatisation of Uhlemann & Lantzsch GmbH as a rotary screen printing company | 2004 Foundation of InnoTex Merkel & Rau GmbH as a digital printing company by Thomas Merkel and Justus Rau | 2017 Merger of operational business into InnoTex Merkel & Rau GmbH

Managing director

Thomas Merkel und Justus Rau

Location(s)

Frankenberg

Workplaces 

101, davon 1 Azubi

Production/research focus, product range

Jerseys and fabrics for bed linen, women's outerwear, underwear, swimwear, technical textiles | Research focus on hydrophilic/hydrophobic finish, printing on wool, rotative printing of heating elements on textiles

Company philosophy 

“Innovation in textiles - we are striving for a market-leading position in textile surface design, combined with a wide range of technological articles for many applications.”

InnoTex Merkel & Rau GmbH specialises in the development of creative designs for digital and rotary printing. In addition to realising special customer requests, around 400 new designs are added to the company's own collections every year. The modern company prints a wide range of knitted and woven fabrics, including highly elastic jerseys and warp knitted fabrics. InnoTex is the only collection provider on the German market with its own print shop, particularly in the swimwear and daywear sector.