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The article reports on the 50 years celebration of research for textile machine construction of the Cetex Chemnitzer Textilmaschinenetwicklung gGmbH of Chemnitz, Germany. In January 2007, the Cetex Chemnitzer, as the successor to the Institute for Textile Machinery, founded on January 1957, celebrated its 50 years of scientific research for textile machine development. It has been accounted that Cetex is a certified noise measurement institute, focusing on the development of machinery for the processing of high-performance fibers, such as carbon and glass, bi- and triaxial structures as well as multiaxial multiply structures for fiber composites.

The Vacumaster vacuum dryer for glass fiber yarns has been awarded with the Innovation Prize of the German government. This award is granted for outstanding and innovative products of the German machinery industry. The Vacumaster developed by the machinery company Welker GmbH, based in Lambrecht, Germany, is a glass fiber dryer, which substitutes the utilization of classic ovens using heated air by a low temperature vacuum drying process. The results of this dryer are quite impressive, as yarn damages caused by overheated temperatures are reduced to zero, the energy cost is reduced by 70 percent against prior processes, and the lead time is reduced by 50 percent.