The TFI acts as a platform for the industry. We bundle the expertise of the industry network. We are your contact for research, testing, certification, qualification and production. Our focus is on people & space, sustainability, digitalization and technical innovation.

We shape the future through creative research. Our tests and certifications ensure safe, comfortable and healthy interiors.

Research:

TFI conducts research to develop future-proof technical solutions for our industry and to design the best possible interiors. To this end, we focus on issues of sustainability and the circular economy, health, safety, comfort and design. New materials and products, innovative production techniques and technologies as well as testing methods are developed in cooperative research projects.

Testing:

Health, safety and quality aspects are of central importance to TFI in testing, monitoring and certification. Our testing laboratory is accredited in accordance with DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025

Certification:

TFI is your competent partner for the certification of indoor building products. We can help you find out which certification options are available, for which products and which product properties you need or want to certify.

Qualification:

In the area of qualification, we support you on your way to becoming a sustainable, agile and creative organization. We offer further training formats for manufacturers, retailers and tradespeople. We cover the following topics: Sustainability, digitalization, testing, certification and research.

Production:

TFI develops prototypes and samples according to specific customer requirements, develops test carpets, distributes standardized dirt dust and provides support in the construction of special machines and test equipment on customer request.

Our work can be found in a wide variety of means of transportation. Immerse yourself in a world of efficiency and sustainability and discover how we at TFI want to help shape the future of mobility. You can find our projects/services in airplanes, cars, trains and ships, for example. To find out more about our projects, click here.

Especially in houses and buildings, the TFI is represented in many areas with the specification on floor and room systems. Whether classic carpet coverings, new sustainable projects or innovations for a carpet blind guidance system, the TFI has a full range of exciting projects. Whether in the further development of new sustainable projects for interiors or test methods for fire/flame protection of carpets, TFI can be found in many areas. To discover more TFI projects, click here.

• CISUFLO
• Interior -> Helix yarns
• Home -> Scratching furniture -> µ-scratching
• General textile floor covering -> alNop
• Windows -> Textile heat exchanger
• Interior, floor covering -> Guidance system for the blind -> ModulLeit
• Fire / flame protection test -> InFlameTex
• Commercial, home, separate rubber from mats and rubber can be renewed, separation of raw materials -> SKL-Mat
• Dry disinfection of textile floor coverings using inverse streamer corona discharge

The TFI is also represented in industry, through projects such as in sewage treatment plants, in test laboratories or classically in the carpet industry.

• Sewage plant -> Textile curved screen
• Carpet industry -> Ressource T-EXDIZ
• Test laboratory, production process, product launch -> ELSAfloor
• Production -> Ressource T-EXDIZ
• Coating Adhesive, sustainable eco-based alternative for latex -> EcoCoat

We have a wide range of sports flooring projects, whether for typical indoor surfaces or innovative artificial turf systems, which fall under the TFI’s remit.

• Sustainable artificial turf -> BioTurf
• Simplification of production -> Ressource T-EXDIZ

People & space:

• This area of expertise deals with the effects of space on people. This means, for example, how rooms should be designed in terms of health and wellbeing or what “healthy living” materials/building products should ideally be used.
• Using methods of architectural and spatial sociology, we deal with the topic in publicly funded projects or in research and development commissions from our clients and publish articles, podcasts and invite people to information events in this area

Sustainability:

• The topic of sustainability is a top priority at TFI. When developing innovative production technologies and concepts for recycling-friendly product designs and when using new materials, the impact on the environment and economic efficiency are crucial for the efficient use of resources.

Digitization:

• Digitalization is the basic prerequisite for maintaining competitiveness in the current and future market. This runs through the entire value chain, from raw materials to production and technology. One of our tasks is to record all material and process variables for analogue and measurable values and parameters and to digitize them. We also highlight the opportunities that digitalization offers companies and support them in implementing their own projects.
• This is how we create the conditions for greater productivity, sustainability and flexibility

Technical innovations:

• Innovations are the driving force for securing jobs and production sites. The TFI supports industry in this field of expertise through public and contract-based research in the areas of product development, mechanical engineering, process optimization and the development of testing and measurement technology.
• In close cooperation with our industrial partners, we analyze the challenges posed, develop proposed solutions and implement them on a laboratory scale.

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Geotextiles for green facades

We are also able to develop geotextiles for the greening of roofs and facades.

If you are interested in the development of geotextiles in this area, please contact our research team.

s.gelderblom@tfi-aachen.de

Geotextiles for reinforcing embankments, e.g. on roads and motorways

We are also able to develop geotextiles for reinforcing embankments on roads and motorways, for example.

If you are interested in the development of geotextiles in this area, please contact our research team.

s.gelderblom@tfi-aachen.de

Geotextiles in coastal protection and hydraulic engineering

If you are interested in the development of geotextiles in this area, please contact our research team.

s.gelderblom@tfi-aachen.de