Carpatec is a Spanish based company founded in 1995, that specializes in the design, calculation, manufacturing and installation of many types of membrane structures and tents. Years of experience have led Carpatec to become one of the leaders in the Spanish market for tensile architecture and helped them to broaden their horizons to international markets like France, Italy, Guinea, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, among others. For more information, click here.
CENO Membrane Technology is one of the leading companies with a long tradition in the field of tensile structures. Since 1996 CENO belongs to Sattler AG in Graz. Sattler is globally successful in the sector of sun protection and coated fabrics (et al. also for textile architecture). In the recent 40 years, CENO created hundreds of attractive tensile structures of different sizes and for a variety of application areas. CENO fabricates all materials (from PES/PVC plastic coated polyester fabrics and PTFE glass fabrics, silicone glass to ETFE films) to European and international standards. The manufacturing facilities are state-of-the-art and guarantee a constantly high-quality level of CENO products. Since 2018, Ceno has reoriented itself in the field of textile architecture, concentrating on its core competence, the membrane fabrication, offering these to its customers as contract manufacturing. For more information, click here.
Fabric Architecture is a UK based company with a dedicated team of in-house experts with nearly 40 years' experience of delivering turnkey solutions for many tensile fabric structures. They rely on their strong relationship with architects, contractors and decision-makers in the fabric structure industry. They transform original concepts into buildable, sustainable and memorable tensile fabric solutions. For more information click here.
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Mehler Texnologies is the traditional German brand for coated textiles. Mehler’s membranes were used right from the start of Textile Architecture’s reinvention in mid-20th century. The company’s origins reach back to 1837 when Valentin Mehler opened his weaving mill in Fulda. The architectural membranes can be manufactured into stadium roofs, textile façades, sun protection, tents and XXL printed building surfaces. Altogether Mehler produces around 50 million square meters of technical textiles.
Ongoing research and development improve existing composite materials and discover new areas of applications. The state-of-the-art machinery ensures the high and consistent quality of our products.
Our Textile Architecture materials are woven and coated in Fulda, in the middle of Germany. Sales companies in Italy, France, Great Britain, Poland, Dubai, India, Latvia, Romania, Turkey and the USA, as well as sales partners in other European countries, Asia and Australia, serve customers in more than 80 countries. For more information, click here
PFEIFER Structures is a leading single-source partner for innovative lightweight structures, building envelopes, and kinetic structures around the world.
Their expertise starts with decades of experience in tensile structures including cables, tension rods, and membranes but does not end there. As pioneers in lightweight architecture, they consult, provide and install ambitious projects in any material from steel to wood to membranes, glass, or other materials that are yet to be invented.
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Serge Ferrari S.A.S. is a leading French manufacturer of flexible composite materials. Running since 1973, Serge Ferrari Group masters all production steps in its manufacturing sites in Europe (France, Switzerland, and Italy), from product development to recycling and has quickly developed its activities on a global basis with 8 subsidiaries worldwide and 830 employees. Their products can adapt to large scale projects like sports stadiums to projects in a smaller scale like personal home terraces. For more information, click here.
Sioen Industries NV is a Belgium-based company that has been around since 1907. Leader in its domain, Sioen focusses on high quality technical textiles and has the entire production process from yarn, over woven and coated fabric, to chemicals and finishing in house. The company has three divisions: the coating division, engaged in the production of several technical textiles, coated with various polymers and marketed in different markets, (Textile Architecture- and Façades) the apparel division and the chemical division. Sioen is active in more than 80 countries, employs over 3.500 people in 53 plants in 23 countries. For more information, click here.
Taiyo Europe is a global market leader for the planning and realization of membrane architecture, offering clients custom-made solutions for their projects. Over 1,300 employees within the TAIYO group work in giving the customers a complete range of project services worldwide, from the design to the complete execution and work planning. At Taiyo Europe, a team of creative designers and engineers work side by side with architects and other experts to realize technically demanding membrane structures. Taiyo Europe’s core team brings more than 100 years of international experience in the realization of high-class membrane architecture to the table. Well-known international projects, such as the Millennium Dome in London, UK and the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Italy, are their presentation letters. For more information click here.
Temme Obermeier is one of the few specialists in membrane construction worldwide who know how to master all the materials, with more than 30 years of practical experience in the areas of roofing, booth building and façade construction. Since then, T//O has very closely followed how membrane materials have developed, studied how they are used and has constantly set new standards regarding their applications. Realizing spectacular projects worldwide, shows the capacity of the whole team of T//O in all aspects of roofs and façades with ETFE foil and fabrics. For more information, click here.
Dipl.-Ing. Architect Katja Bernert, Mehler Texnologies GmbH, Hückelhoven, Germany.
M. Eng. Gustavo Ramirez Lares, Carpatec S.L., Madrid, Spain.
Mrs. Aoife Brennan, Fabric Architecture Solutions Ltd., Warwick, UK.
M. Eng. Gustavo Ramirez Lares, Carpatec S.L., Madrid, Spain.
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