✓ With rigid + lightweight preforms made from fiber strands
✓ with material-homogeneous, flexible heating elements
✓ and seamlessly integrated sensors for intelligent functions.
This is our area of expertise – from the idea to serial production.
We know a lot about it – from the idea to serial production.
This is what we specialize in – from the idea to serial production.
Tailored fiber placement (TFP) is a process for manufacturing semi-finished textile products from fiber strands. Our CNC embroidery machines lay fiber strands (also known as rovings) made of carbon, glass fiber, aramid and other fibers onto flexible carrier materials. We align the fiber orientation individually to the force curves in your product. Between the stitches, the embroidery machines move the carrier material and embroider the fibers in the optimum fiber orientation. We can also easily integrate functional threads, sensors, wires or heating conductors in any shape into your fiber preforms during fiber laying. Alternatively, this process is also known as roving laying.
Cost-efficient production of complex preforms, textile sensors and heating elements
Production of complex patterns, layers or arrangements of fibers for precise reinforcement
Lightweight fibers and carrier materials, but high rigidity due to optimal alignment
Individual combination of lightweight fibers (carbon, glass fiber, aramid, basalt, ...) and metals
Seamless integration of heating wires or sensor threads in fiber structures
Production with high repeat accuracy in small and large series
If you attach particular importance to the sustainability of your products, use natural fibers instead of carbon or glass fiber. Natural fibers such as flax, hemp or jute are also suitable as rovings for tailored fiber placement. As renewable resources, they score points for their environmental friendliness compared to conventional fibers. They are biodegradable, very light and biocompatible. Natural fibers also offer you complete design freedom.
Sustainability is an important value in our company.
TFP Technology is your manufacturer for textile preforms, electric heating elements and sensor mats based in Falkenstein, Vogtland. The Saxon Vogtland has always been an important center of the German textile industry. On site, we find trained specialists for our technical embroidery, the basis for tailored fiber placement. With experienced and motivated employees from the region, we develop and produce the highest quality “Made in Germany”.
We develop customized preforms, heating elements and sensor mats that fit your products perfectly. A young and dynamic team of qualified personnel is at your side from the initial inquiry or idea through the development of layouts and implementation of prototypes to serial production.
We guarantee you flexibility and the shortest possible response times. Your satisfaction is our top priority!
We see ourselves as problem solvers.
✓ Are you a manufacturer of ship propellers or boat propellers? ✓ Are you looking for lightweight, high-strength, corrosion-resistant carbon propellers with an optimized and complex design? ✓ Are you looking for a supplier or manufacturer of carbon fiber reinforced boat propellers which can develop complex geometries with you and produce them cost-effectively? Then read on!
✓ Are you a manufacturer of innovative UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) for industry or the military?
✓ Do you want to make your drone lighter, more robust, more maneuverable or more durable?
✓ Are you looking for a supplier or manufacturer who will work with you to develop and cost-effectively manufacture a customized reinforcement for various parts of your UAV?
Then read on!
✓ Are you a manufacturer of hydrogen tanks or carbon pole caps for hydrogen tanks?
✓ Do you need lightweight, pressure-resistant, corrosion-resistant and safe preforms for further processing in your pole caps?
✓ Are you looking for a supplier or manufacturer who can produce preforms for your pole caps cost-effectively using the TFP process?
Then read on!
