Dornier presents the full range of machine and system solutions for the composites industry. The solutions include tapes, tape fabrics and 3D structured textiles.

Based in Italy, the company has been the preferred partner for technical weavers worldwide for over 40 years. It has extremely versatile roving weaving machines for processing high-performance materials like carbon, glass and aramid fibers.

With core skills in textile and plastic processing collected in its composite systems business unit, Dornier is building its reputation as a reliable equipment provider partner for the burgeoning composite industry.

The requirements placed on modern composite components, like very high dynamic loads, good impact resistance and outstanding damage tolerance, cannot be met with layered textile reinforcements. The solution, multilayer, integrally reinforced 3D fabrics, can be produced economically on 3D weaving machines from Dornier. With an innovative fabric guidance system, fabrics can be manufactured with thickness of up to 100 millimeters. For this, the textile weave pattern is first developed in a virtual environment and then transferred digitally to the weaving machine controller.

Both dry and fully impregnated tapes can be produced in widths up to 600 millimeters on the Dornier tape production line at manufacturing speeds as high as 30 meters per minute.