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Textiles to Transform – that is what Mehler Texnologies® has been doing since 1837. A new transformation process has just begun: Mehler Texnologies® is joining the Freudenberg Group with the latter’s acquisition of the Low & Bonar Group.

The Freudenberg Group is a German privately held diversified group of companies with a strong tradition in textiles. Carl Johann Freudenberg founded his company in Weinheim in 1849. Less than 200 kilometers away and around the same time, Valentin Mehler opened his weaving mill in Fulda.

Mehler Texnologies® coated technical textiles will enhance Freudenberg’s ample portfolio with complementary products. With the group’s strong financial backing and large R&D commitments, Mehler Texnologies® will gain further strength and looks forward to “Innovating Together” in close collaboration with customers, business partners and the world of science.

Mehler Texnologies® world-renowned brands VALMEX®, POLYMAR®, AIRTEX® and PLASTEL® will continue to stand for high performance coated textiles transformable into stadium roofs, truck tarpaulins, industrial covers, sun protection, tents, pool covers, boats, flexible containers, building façades and other countless applications. At the same time, Mehler Texnologies® team will continue to provide the same high level of service and commitment to customers: transforming the customers’ needs into coated fabrics, innovating according to future demand and supplying high quality products “Made in Germany”.

For further information please visit www.mehler-texnologies.com , www.freudenberg-pm.com , www.freudenberg.com

TENSINET as INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT ASSOCIATION

The idea of TensiNet became reality in 1999 as a proposal for a European research project, which ran till 2004.

TensiNet continued the established network of experts of our industry under the wings of Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Last year we decided to get on our own feet, and to transform TensiNet into an international non-profit association (INPA).

Recently, with a delay due to COVID-19, the deed was signed at the notary!

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Topics: TensiNet as INPA, WG eurocode & Textile Roofs 2020

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Please find the latest TensiNewsflash March 2020

Topics: TensiNet on LinkedIn & Advanced Building Skins symposium

Our TensiNet association will be organizing two sessions on Architectural Membranes at the Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo, to be held 26-27 October 2020 in Bern, Switzerland.

See https://abs.green/home/

More info will follow soon.

Please find the latest TensiNewsflash January 2020

IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference 2020: The conference will be organised at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, on 24-28 August 2020. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/iass2020

Design Competition: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/iass2020/design-competition

The University of Surrey’s Spatial Structures Research Centre has launched a competition to design a spatial structure memorial that will mark the occasion of the seventh occurrence of the International Conference in Spatial Structures in August 2020. The winning design will be installed at a location adjacent to the new residences on Surrey’s Manor Park campus.  (Deadline 28.02.2020)

There is also a call for papers: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/iass2020/call-papers (Deadline 31.01.2020)

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Prof. Marijke Mollaert gave a keynote lecture on Recent designs of textile membrane structures for architectural applications at the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference in Dresden, 28-29 November 2019.

Architect Katja Bernert from Mehler Texnologies gave a lecture on The potential of fabric façades at the same conference. Showing that already today fabric façades are much more than just a textile wrap for a building. Fabric meshes are evolving rapidly: at the end of this development they will be the matrix for all sorts of applications.

For more info see at http://www.aachen-dresden-denkendorf.de/itc/

Please find the latest TensiNewsflash December 2019