Saxony’s Textile Industry: Innovation by Tradition

Saxony's textile industry can look back on more than 200 years of tradition. Its unique selling proposition to this day - the almost closed textile value chain from the fiber to the end product. Technical, functionalized textiles account for over 60% of the industry's turnover.

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Textile knitted fabric (Source: Cetex Institut gGmbH, Chemnitz)

Facts About the Textile Industry in Saxony (2022)

500

companies
12,000

employees
1,400 million €

annual turnover
60 %

Sales share of technical, functionalized textiles

Partners

Innovation Clusters

In Saxony, various networks and clusters in the textile industry are working together to develop innovative textile materials and products to open up new areas of application and to make more efficient use of sustainable raw materials.

Sachsen-Leinen e. V. is a platform for companies, R&D institutions, politicians and consumers in the field of processing fiber plants, natural fibers and other renewable raw materials. Through the association, members pool their expertise and enter into cooperative ventures. Sachsen-Leinen coordinates local, national and international cooperation projects to support new technologies in the cultivation and processing of fiber plants and animal wool for textile and technical applications as well as the refinement of natural fibers into semi-finished and end products.

Sachsen-Leinen e. V.

The "texton" network is an association of companies and research institutions from the entire construction industry value chain. The topic of fiber- and textile-reinforced concrete is dealt with in close cooperation with scientific institutions. The focus of the joint work is the technologically oriented development of practical new products. In this context, Texton offers services and project development.

The Association of the North-East German Textile and Clothing Industry (vti) has been dedicated to the topic of healthcare textiles since 2015. With a project funded by the Free State of Saxony, the powerful Saxony-wide network health.textil has been established since 2017. The network focuses on continuous dialog with the healthcare industry and the initiation of user-related projects to strengthen the competitiveness of medium-sized textile companies in the healthcare industry market.

Saxony's textile industry covers almost the entire textile chain - fiber, yarn, and nonwoven fabrics producers, spinning and weaving mills, knitting and warp knitting mills, textile finishers as well as fashion and clothing manufacturers; also including textile machine manufacturers. In the field of technical, functionalized textiles, the focus is particularly on lightweight textile construction, healthcare textiles and natural fiber applications.

Example 3D visualization textile industry Saxony (Source: Saxony Trade & Invest Corp.)

A Virtual Visit to the Stakeholders of Saxony’s Textile Branch

Over the past few years, we have organized various business trips abroad as well as visits of foreign delegations to Saxony on the most diverse “textile topics.” In so doing, a wide range of cooperative projects have been initiated between Saxony's and foreign companies.

Towards this end, some of the major stakeholders of the textile branch in Saxony have created 3D visualizations (based on the Matterport platform) – essentially as a virtual replacement of an on-site visit. You can look at these visualizations via a mouse click on the respective company name in the following list.