Lindauer DORNIER GmbH

Lindau-based DORNIER GmbH is an internationally active mechanical and plant engineering company with around 1,000 employees (including more than 65 trainees). Founded in 1950 by Peter Dornier, son of aviation pioneer Claude Dornier, the family-owned company is one of the world's technology leaders with its product lines of weaving machines, special machines and composite systems. The company's weaving machines produce highly sophisticated fabrics such as airbags, filters, the finest silk fabrics, elaborate jacquard articles and fabrics made of high-performance fibers such as carbon, glass and aramid. With its special machinery division, DORNIER is the market leader in the engineering and production of film stretching lines for the manufacture of ultra-thin plastic films. These are used, for example, for packaging food, pharmaceutical and care products; they are also used for solar cells, lithium-ion batteries, semiconductors, capacitors and smartphone displays. In the Composite Systems division, DORNIER pools its decades of experience in the design and construction of weaving machines and film stretching lines. Here, tailor-made plants are created for the production of high-quality fiber composite components, complex 3D fabrics and unidirectional fiber tapes. All DORNIER machines and plants are manufactured in the Lindau and Esseratsweiler production facilities. The export share is over 90 %.

As one of the world's leading weaving machine manufacturers, DORNIER recognized and served the technical textiles market very early on in 1968 with its first rapier weaving machine group for reinforcing fabrics. Today, with the system family consisting of rapier and air-jet weaving machines, the company offers a product portfolio with which all types of technical textiles can be produced to the highest quality standards. Yarns from 7 den to 3333 tex can be processed without any problems, resulting in a range of applications from finest spinnaker silk and airbag fabrics to glass, aramid and carbon fabrics.