Browsing: Peter D. Dornier

Innovation in the textile machinery industry is the launch pad for intelligent applications; For example, industry textiles which are replacing conventional materials. In transportation, they are making aircrafts and cars more lightweight, thus enabling huge energy savings; Or nonwovens with better environmental friendliness used for the production of wipes.

Lindauer DORNIER GmbH will present innovative machine concepts for the production of highly sophisticated fabrics at the ITME in Mumbai. Under DORNIER´s sustainability motto ´The Green Machine´, the family company, which manufactures the machines exclusively in Germany, will present the latest technical solutions which allow producing the most modern technical textiles, sophisticated decorative fabrics and clothing with refined quality for the premium segment with very high economic efficiency.

Weaving is one of the oldest manufacturing processes known to man, but in the age of technical textiles it is about to undergo exciting new transformations, says Peter D. Dornier, chief executive officer and co-owner of Lindauer DORNIER GmbH.

On the occasion of Techtextil in Frankfurt the Walter Reiners-Stiftung (foundation) honoured three successful young engineers. The prize-winning papers are best practice examples and range from technologies for the fabrication of fibre composites over a modelling approach of a parachute to the development of textile implants for the treatment of bone fractures.

While the whole world is impressed by the long lasting high economic growth rate in East Asia, booming building industry and substantial achievements in technology, in the meantime, environmental pollution is increasing drastically hand in hand like a twin brother.