The Saxon Textile Research Institute e.V. (STFI) considers a wide range of application fields for textiles and has been an innovation partner and service provider for its customers for more than 25 years. Central offers are Research & Development, Testing & Certification, Education & Training as well as Transfer. The main topics of work at the STFI are in the fields of nonwovens, technical textiles, textile lightweight engineering, textile recycling, functionalisation, digitisation & Industry 4.0 and in the field of testing and certification services. The content and objectives of STFI's activities are primarily defined by customer inquiries and needs. The research activities of the institute are application-oriented and geared towards industry. The accredited testing body is constantly expanding its range of textile tests and extends it to testing non-textile raw materials such as glass, aramid, carbon and basalt. In addition to the Personal Protective Equipment Certification Body, the Certification Body for Geosynthetics is also listed under Notified Body 0516. The SME 4.0 Competence Centre Textil vernetzt sensitizes and supports small and medium sized companies of the textile industry and textile machinery industry with suitable offers in unlocking the technological and economic potentials of digitization. The objective is to further strengthen the innovative capability and competitiveness of the companies. In the 2020 project „futureTEX – Ein Zukunftsmodell für die Traditionsbranchen in der vierten industriellen Revolution“, STFI works with partners to develop visions and models for the future of the textile industry. Since 2006, the STFI is an affiliated institute of Chemnitz University of Technology. Furthermore, STFI is member of the Zuse association.

You have the possibility of a virtual exploration at STFI. For this purpose, our futureTEX research and test field "Textile Factory of the future" with all its facilities was scanned by the company airmess GmbH from Dresden.

You can move freely around the room virtually and view individual plant technologies at close range. In the "Textile Factory of the Future", STFI scientists are working on topics related to digitalisation in the textile industry. Digital assistance systems, robotics, driverless transport systems and RFID technologies are the main components of the work in this field.

The virtual tour took place as part of the BBA project "Visit Saxony's Textile Hub", which is funded by the Saxon State Ministry of Economics, Labour and Transport and implemented and coordinated by Wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbH.