On 15 June 2023, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) invites you to the Innovation Day for SMEs. The open-air event illustrates the forward-looking successes of innovative SMEs as well as the effectiveness of the federal government's innovation funding, which is open to all topics and sectors.

This year's international lightweight construction trade fair JEC WORLD will take place from 25 to 27 April 2023 in Paris. The Sächsische Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI) will present its latest highlights from textile lightweight engineering and textile recycling at the stand of the Saxony Trade & Invest Corporation.

The world's leading nonwovens fair INDEX^TM is taking place at Lake Geneva from 18 to 21 April 2023. A trade fair team from the Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstituts e.V. (STFI) will be on site presenting news from nonwovens research at STFI, such as a bio-based hygiene nonwoven, the recycling of high-performance fibres using the example of the VliesSMC project, an innovative tubular liner system and water-jet nonwovens made from recycled fibres will be on show.

On 14 and 15 March 2023, the Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI) invites you to the 16th Symposium Textile Filters in Chemnitz. Filtration experts will meet for professional dialogue in the appealing atmosphere of the Hotel Chemnitzer Hof. The topic of sustainability will particularly determine the opening of the symposium.

The Automotive Lightweight Technology Expo is one of six specialised exhibitions of AUTOMOTIVE WORLD and Asia's leading trade fair for automotive lightweight technologies. STFI and Rucks Maschinenbau GmbH, Glauchau, presented the results of their long-standing cooperation at a joint exhibition stand from 25 to 27 January 2023.

Project futureTEX funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the "Twenty20 – Partnership for Innovation" programme ended last year. Since its launch in 2014, more than 30 research projects have been set up to make a decisive contribution to the transformation from the traditional textile industry to the TechTex industry in Germany.

In our next webTalk on February 15, 2023 (10:00 to 10:30 a.m.), our colleague Dirk Zschenderlein, Head of Intelligent Production Systems, Modeling and Process Management at STFI, presents the research project and informs about its beginnings as well as important milestones.

For the first time, the company Rucks Maschinenbau GmbH, Glauchau, and the STFI are presenting themselves on a joint exhibition stand. The results of the long-standing cooperation will be presented at the Automotive Lightweight Technology Expo in Tokyo (Japan) from 25 - 27 January 2023.