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Textechno wins JEC Innovation award 2016 with its new quality testing system

The company has developed its innovative FIMATEST system together with the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden.

15th March 2016

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Paris

Industrial

The new FIMATEST device. © Textechno Textechno, a leading Germany based designer and manufacturer of precision testing equipment and systems for textile and manmade fibres, has won the prestigious JEC World Innovation Award 2016 for A new testing system to access the properties of the fibre to matrix interface.

The company has developed its innovative FIMATEST system together with the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden. The celebration of the JEC award winners took place on 8 March2016 at the JEC World conference in Paris.

FIMATEST system

The quality of a composite laminate, especially the stiffness, is highly dependent on a good adhesion strength between the reinforcing fibre, such as glass or carbon fibre and the polymer matrix, the company reports.

To accurately and reliably measure the bonding between fibres and resins, Textechno has developed FIMATEST, the first system that is commercially available consisting of the two devices: FIMABOND, which is a partially automated embedding station, suitable for all fibres and resins systems, as well as the high precision pull-out tester FAVIMAT+, which can also be used for single filament linear density and tensile testing.

“The FIMATEST system is a new building block for testing the quality of composite laminates with glass or carbon fibre reinforcement,” commented Dr Ulrich Mörschel, CEO of Textechno. “This development was possible through an excellent collaboration with the well-­known expert Professor Edith Mäder from the Dresden Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research who contributed the knowledge of the micromechanical behaviour.”

Fibre matrix interface

“The composite market is continuously growing and requires world-class testing systems measuring the quality of the products. The fibre matrix interface is a key feature for mechanical performance,” said Dr Michael Effing, CEO of AMAC GmbH and advisor for Composite Materials to Textechno.

The celebration of the JEC award winners took place on 8 March2016 at the JEC World conference in Paris. © Textechno

“I am very pleased that Textechno has developed this system in a very short time frame and can already present it at the JEC. The first system has been delivered already to the new Fraunhofer ICT Institute for Structural Lightweight in Augsburg/ Germany and another unit has been sold to a glass fibre producer in the USA.”

Textechno

Textechno is a leading designer and manufacturer of precision test equipment and systems for textiles and manmade fibres, headquartered in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Established for more than 60 years, Textechno, together with its subsidiary Lenzing Instruments in Austria, is a market and technology leader in the field of manmade fibre and filament testing.

www.textechno.com

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