Peter D. Dornier, the member of the Executive Board of the VDMA Textile Machinery
Federation and Chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation for the Promotion of
Young Engineers recently honoured five engineers with a
total of €17,500 in the award
ceremony at the Digital Capability Center (DCC) in Aachen, Germany. Numerous entrepreneurs from the German textile machinery industry also
attended the ceremony.
The prize winner in the dissertation category was Dr.- Ing. Benjamin Weise. He is from the
Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University (ITA) and has dealt with a complex production process for the
manufacture of modified multifilament yarns, which offers new perspectives for
the development and manufacture of textile charge carriers.
M.Sc. Susanne Fischer, the winner of the Master's thesis category, has
systematically and comprehensively solved the challenging task of integrating
motion sensors into a finger glove at Reutlingen University.
The 2018 creativity award winners were Mr.
Jan Merlin Abram and Mr. Alon Tal from ITA Aachen as well as Mr. Eric Otto from
the Institute for Textile Machinery and High-Performance Textile Materials
Technology (ITM) in Dresden.
The students Abram and Tal have developed a
guideline for the design of hybrid morphing textiles. In addition to the
classic functions in conventional and, in particular, composite applications,
locally defined, functionally effective joint, torsion, expansion and
compression mechanisms can be integrated into the textile.
On the other hand, Otto was awarded for a concept study for the development of a circular knitting machine
with a variable diameter needle cylinder, which can lead to further flexibility
in the circular knitting process.