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Cetex has been an affiliated institute of the Chemnitz University of Technology since December 1, 2008
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Brief introduction
Cetex is the research institute in Germany for new technologies and machines for manufacturing textile-based semi-finished products, functional components and high-performance structures.
It was founded as the central R&D centre for the East German Textima state combine in 1957, but the Cetex Institute has developed into a source of ideas and highly productive partner for applied research for all its customers in the textile and process engineering fields since it was established on a new footing in 1990. Its activities and the major focus of its work have increasingly switched from its original emphasis on conventional textile engineering to machines for technical textiles and non-textile applications.
Its work centres on developing processes and materials for endless fibrereinforced semi-finished products and complex preforms and even constructing the machines to produce these. The design and the testing of technologies for major production runs for multi-functional lightweight applications form an important part of this work.
The way has been paved for this by making Cetex an affiliated institute of Chemnitz University of Technology.
Affiliated institute
The powerful dovetailing of the knowledge gained in pure research at Chemnitz University of Technology and the applied research at the Cetex Institute are providing important stimuli for new processes and equipment. The cooperation is particularly close with the Department of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology (SLK) in the field of fibre/polymer composites for largescale production purposes. The expertise at the two facilities permits synergy effects in research, teaching and when developing tailor-made components in line with the motto: "From a thread to a high-performance component".