The local partner in Kenya is B2B-Africa. Interested parties may contact B2B-Africa to schedule visits, B2B meetings and to register for the Symposium:

B2B-Africa Ltd.
neville@b2bafrica.co.kePhone: +254 722 858 611

The Symposium and the subsequent B2B meetings on 30 September 2026 will be hosted at the EMARA OLE-SERENI hotel in Nairobi:

EMARA OLE-SERENI Hotel
Mombasa Road, Nairobi, Kenya

The Brückner Group is a world-wide acting family-run mechanical engineering company with more than 75 years of tradition and experience. We plan, construct and install machinery and lines for the finishing and coating of textiles, technical textiles, nonwovens, floor coverings and a lot of other planiform materials. Some typical processes are: drying, heat-setting, condensing, continuous dyeing, sanforizing, compacting, shrinking, coating, laminating or consolidating. Innovative energy saving concepts such as heat recovery and exhaust air cleaning systems complete our profile.

“Made in Germany” is the basis for our success, because it is a globally recognized mark of quality. Customers around the world associate German products with precision, reliability, safety, and engineering excellence. These are precisely the values that matter to us as a family-owned business. Our customers benefit from our innovative research, skilled workforce, and technological excellence. Our machines impress with their durability and energy efficiency. During a tour of our production facility in Bavaria, customers can always see and experience these advantages for themselves.

In our own technology centre in Leonberg, customers and interested parties may at any time develop new products and make tests or trials with their own textile fabric. Our experienced technicians are here to provide guidance and support.

Founded in 1919, Erhardt+Leimer is an internationally expanding group with its head office in Augsburg, Germany. Erhardt+Leimer specializes in the development, production, sales, and servicing of products for automation and inspection on moving webs and conveyors. More than 1,600 highly qualified employees at sites across Europe, America, and Asia deliver cutting-edge technology on time to any location in the world. Our intelligent technologies and products meet the highest quality standards and are designed to help our customers to optimize their production processes. In everything we do, from product development and use of resources up to the relationship with our customers we attach great importance on sustainability, reliability, and continuity. Our systems for web guiding, web tension control, and web inspection are used in various industries such as textiles, paper, plastics, paper production, tires and rubber, corrugated board, hygiene, or batteries. It is our aim to keep offering new products and services so that our customers enjoy even greater benefits. For this reason, we develop customer-specific solutions and always stay at the pulse regarding new developments. Just recently, we have launched a new product for the textile industry, a seam sensor including software based on artificial intelligence. With an extensive service network in all key industrial nations we are close to our customers and able to offer an excellent range of services, from remote maintenance to on-site personal support. Apart from that, customers have the possibility to buy our products 24/7 in the E+L web shop. We deliver our products and solutions to customers in a broad variety of industries and located all over the world. Our current export ratio is above 80 %. Due to our global presence guaranteed by a network of 18 locations across Europe, America, and Asia we are always close to our customers. Our customers are manufacturers and users of machines for processing fabric and nonwoven materials. With our systems and solutions we help them to increase the production quality, reduce waste and downtimes while increasing their output. We provide the full range of systems for web guiding, web tension control and web inspection. Our network of subsidiaries and partner companies offers the ideal basis for open communication and knowledge transfer. Thanks to an intensive exchange, we can keep a constant eye on the requirements of the market. We aim to connect with business partners in the following areas: Textile finishing companies and machinery manufacturers.

KERN-LIEBERS Textile GmbH is a Germany-based manufacturer and solution provider specializing in high-precision machine components for the textile machinery industry. The company is part of the internationally operating KERN LIEBERS Group, a globally established industrial group whose core business is primarily focused on the automotive sector. Within this diversified group structure, the textile division represents one of several strategic business pillars, transferring the group’s extensive expertise in precision engineering, advanced materials technology, and high-volume industrial manufacturing into the textile machinery industry. This integration into a globally established and technologically advanced industrial group ensures long-term stability, continuous innovation capability, and reliable partnership for customers worldwide.
Our core competence lies in the development and production of high-performance components for knitting and warp knitting machines. Our portfolio includes, among others, guide needles, compound needles, sinkers, spring elements, and customized precision parts tailored to specific machine types and customer requirements. All products are manufactured with tight tolerances and undergo comprehensive quality control processes to ensure consistent performance in demanding textile production environments.

We serve leading textile machinery manufacturers as well as textile producers worldwide. Our components contribute significantly to machine efficiency, product quality, and production reliability. Through continuous research and development, we support our customers in optimizing machine performance, reducing downtime, and increasing overall productivity.

KERN-LIEBERS Textile GmbH stands for:

• German engineering and manufacturing excellence
• High precision and long service life of components
• Application-specific solutions and technical support
• Flexible production capabilities for medium and large series
• Long-term partnerships based on trust and performance

As a reliable partner, we understand the challenges faced by textile producers in competitive global markets: increasing cost pressure, demand for consistent fabric quality, and the need for efficient, low-maintenance machinery. Our components are designed to meet these requirements and to support sustainable and economically efficient textile production.
With a strong international network and a clear focus on innovation and customer proximity, KERN-LIEBERS Textile GmbH aims to establish and expand long-term partnerships in emerging and growing textile markets such as Kenya and the broader East African region.

We look forward to building strong business relationships and contributing to the further development of the regional textile industry with high-quality German precision components.

For more than 140 years the Monforts commitment to customers is to be helpful – accurate – fast - reliable and has shaped the image as a leading global supplier of textile machines and systems for the dyeing, finishing and coating of woven and knitted goods as well as special applications.

Successful textile manufacturers worldwide have been relying on systems from A. Monforts Textilmaschinen GmbH & Co. KG for decades. They offer their own customers real and globally recognized premium quality and thus conserve important resources - their own and those of the environment.

With systems from Monforts, the two most important economic principles “efficiency” and “effectiveness” come together naturally and create the basis for sustainable economic success as well as high quality, innovation and satisfaction along the entire textile value chain.
Special needs call for special solutions. Monforts has the know-how and technologies necessary to build special ranges to precisely meet your expectations.

Our Product Range
• stenters
• high temperature stenters
• large widths stenters
• coating lines
• explosion-proof execution
• vertical dryers
• relaxation dryers
• hotlfues
• shrinking ranges
• minimum application devices
• special lines according to customer need

VertiDry
Vertical dryer used for versatile coating processes, contactless impregnation and other fields of application. The new vertical dryer has been designed for special applications especially for treatment of technical textiles with a space saving set-up. With its contactless drying it helps to produce high-quality fabrics with added value.

MontexCoat
The coating sector is a steadily growing segment in the field of textile finishing. As a leading manufacturer of textile finishing machines, Monforts is responding to this development with new and innovative solutions, in particular also in the field of technical textiles.

Monforts offers textile finishers tailored technologies for saving energy and adding value to their products using suitable coating ranges.

To meet the individual requirements a wide range of different coating systems is available – also in combination. The various coating modules can be employed for foam and paste coating.

• Air knife coating
• Roller knife coating
• Screen printing
• Magnetic roller coating, direct and indirect
• Optimized control device for easy use and handle
• Automatically working side limiters for reliable sealing even for air knife coating

In addition, Monforts offers the necessary technology for solvent-based coatings with EX-proof ranges and for high-temperature processes up to 320°C, such as for PTFE sintering.

coaTTex
The new versatile coaTTex coating unit exclusively dedicated to air knife and knife-over-roller coating is suitable for single-sided application with paste or foam, for both incorporation into existing finishing ranges as well as installation with new Monforts lines, notably the industry-leading Montex stenter systems.

A wide range of coatings can be applied to fabrics for providing functions such as waterproofing, liquid and gas protection and breathability, in addition to foam lamination and coating, including black-out coating.

The considerable technical textile end-use applications envisaged for the coaTTex range from window blinds to abrasive cloths and from airbags to sails.

With an operational speed of up to 40 metres per minute, coaTTex units are available in nominal widths of between 1800mm to 3600mm and their robust construction is characterised by a rotating beam for the fixation of up to three different knife executions.

Central adjustment of both the horizontal and vertical position of the beam, and also of the knife angle, enables easy adaptation to new projects and automatic tension control guarantees hight quality production. In addition, the cleaning blade for the coating roller is pneumatically controlled, as is the lifting of the beam at seams and clamping during fabric standstill.

The coaTTex is Monforts response to a demand from the market for a reliable coater that can be up and running very quickly, is easy to operate, and enables a wide range of performance properties to be imparted on fabrics extremely economically.

Matex EcoApplicator
Minimum liquor application device with powered liquor rollers. The alternative to padding. Reduced liquor content for lower remaining liquor in the trough. Universal application: Liquor application to one or two sides or different liquor application on front and reverse side.

MONTEX
The Montex stenter offers the latest technology for the optimum customer benefits. The sophisticated chamber design, the individually controlled air guidance system with maximum temperature precision and temperature distribution (different top and bottom air possible) or the excellent energy management are just a few factors.

Your Benefits:
• Optimum accessibility
• Space saving construction
• Integrated exhaust air ducts
• Special panelling for low heat radiation
• Careful sealing of all connecting positions and chamber accesses
• Motors are accessible from outside the chamber and can be replaced without the use of hoists or cranes
• The use of standard components provides benefits in maintenance and inventory for the user

THERMEX
THERMEX is the modern machine for continuous dyeing and finishing of woven and knitted fabrics. It impresses with its exceptional cost-effectiveness – for both large and small batches.
Thanks to uniform air control, reliable temperature management and precise fabric guidance, a THERMEX dyeing range enables wrinkle- and migration-free drying as well as the best reproducible dyeing results.
Future-oriented process technology and modular expandability make THERMEX the ideal solution for upgrading to large continuous ranges.
Whether dyeing, condensing or thermosoling – the universal hotflue offers unrivalled reliability at the highest fabric speeds. Designed exclusively for Econtrol® processes, the THERMEX has established itself as a high-performance range for continuous dyeing.

MONFORTEX
With a comprehensive portfolio of ranges for the shrinking of woven and knitted fabrics, Monforts is one of the leading suppliers worldwide. Innovative and practical developments set standards for cost-effective shrinking of large quantities at higher working speeds.

EnergyTower
Stand-alone air/air heat exchanger for heat recovery from the exhaust flow of thermal systems
The universal Energy Tower has been designed for individual set-up and modular connection
of exhaust air and fresh air. Depending on the exhaust airflow volume and temperature,
up to 25% of the heat can be recovered and used in thermal equipment.

ATC – Advanced Technology Center
The Monforts TechCenter (ATC) offers you a comprehensive selection of machines for practical fabric trials under real production conditions – for maximum reliability in the finishing result and precisely coordinated machine technology.
An experienced team of technologists and application experts will advise you on the optimum range and process configuration. This will provide you with valuable insights to find the perfect combination of Monforts technology and efficient process engineering for your requirements.

Textechno – Your reliable partner for quality control Textechno looks back on a company history of more than 75 years, which is characterized by numerous innovations and patents. The family business is still privately owned. The Mönchengladbach site employs 60 people – 10 of them in design and development – and the subsidiary LENZING INSTRUMENTS in Austria employs 25 people. Located in one of the textile centre’s of Germany, the product portfolio includes testing equipment for the entire textile industry. In the field of manmade fibres and filament yarns, Textechno is the global technology and market leader. Since 2004, we have been offering solutions for the natural fibre spinning industry, since 2010 in the area of high-strength and reinforcing materials or composites and since 2021 also for the recycling industry.

Target groups include production control and incoming quality inspection in fiber and yarn testing. Applications range across man-made fiber spinning, short-fiber spinning mills (man-made, natural, and recycled fibers), filament yarn spinning and texturing plants, as well as companies in recycling and composites. Textechno’s competitive advantages lie in innovative and highly reliable instruments with a high degree of automation. Data transfer and network connectivity are generally supported. We pursue a “Made in Germany” strategy with in-house development and manufacturing, offering complete turnkey laboratories—from design through commissioning to training.

Ideal business partners include those in Central Africa, as we aim to present our product portfolio and philosophy as comprehensively as possible to existing and potential customers, particularly in Kenia or neighbouring countries. We seek to demonstrate our ideas for future-oriented quality assurance and process optimization, and to engage interested parties regarding value-enhancing projects. We are also looking for a representative for Central Africa to strengthen our local presence.

Thies GmbH & Co. KG specializes in sustainable product solutions, focusing on the development of innovative, intelligent, and integrated concepts for the dyeing and drying of yarns, fibers, and fabrics. Founded in 1892, this family-owned company operates state-of-the-art research and production facilities in Coesfeld, Germany, drawing on decades of expertise in commercial, product, and application development.

In 2015, ownership was successfully transferred to the fifth generation of the founding family. Deeply committed to the company’s heritage, this generation continues to uphold its long-standing values while actively shaping a sustainable future.

THIES products are firmly established in global markets, serving both woven and knitted fabrics as well as technical textiles. All machines are individually tailored to meet specific customer requirements and comply with relevant local regulations and standards, including TÜV, DGRL/PED, ASME, EAC, and ISO 9001.

The product portfolio also includes peripheral systems for the automated dosing of liquid chemicals, solid dyestuffs, and salts. To further enhance resource efficiency, the range is complemented by advanced heat recovery systems.

All machines and equipment are controlled by state-of-the-art computer systems, with the option of integrating an overarching control system for the entire dyehouse.

THIES continuously invests in research and development and maintains a strong global presence through an extensive network of agencies, supported by its own sales and service locations in China, France, India, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand, and the United States.

Customers also benefit from the opportunity to conduct dyeing trials using their own yarns and fabrics at the company’s in-house research facility. There, experienced specialists and technologists provide hands-on support to develop and optimize customized dyeing processes.

For more information, please visit: www.thiestextilmaschinen.com

The Trützschler Group SE is a German textile machinery manufacturer headquartered in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The company is divided into three business units: Spinning, Nonwovens and Card Clothing.

Trützschler Spinning is the global technology and market leader in spinning preparation in the cotton and man-made fiber sector.

Trützschler Card Clothing is the global market leader in the production of high-performance card clothing for cards and roller cards.

Trützschler Nonwovens is a leading supplier of complete production lines and machinery for needle-punched, hydroentangled (spunlaced), through-air and chemical bonded nonwovens.

Trützschler machines, installations and accessories are developed and produced in nine locations worldwide. This includes four locations in Germany (Dülmen, Egelsbach, Mönchengladbach, Neubulach), as well as sites in China (Jiaxing and Shanghai), India (Sanand), the USA (Charlotte) and Brazil (Curitiba).

Local service companies in Türkiye, Mexico, Uzbekistan and Vietnam and local service teams in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia provide customer proximity in key regions for the textile processing industry.

For further information, please visit:www.truetzschler.com

Xetma Vollenweider – Innovation Meets Tradition in Surface Finishing
For more than 175 years, the traditional company Xetma Vollenweider has been developing and manufacturing machine systems for the surface finishing of textiles with Swiss precision and German quality. Xetma Vollenweider is continuously improving existing and developing new technologies in the field of mechanical finishing of textiles and floor coverings.

Innovative solutions for the surface finishing of textiles
Xetma Vollenweider offers its customers the complete range of mechanical surface finishing machines from a single source. Besides, it provides a comprehensive, customer-oriented service and innovative technological solutions. The broad technology portfolio includes the following product lines:

Soft Touch – Sueding
Unique surface effects - as delicate as a rose petal - demand innovative processes. With Xetma Vollenweider machines and their possible technologies of Emerizing and Brush-Sueding as well as combined Raising & Emerizing or combined Emerizing & Brush-Sueding have been developed novel surface effects, such as our Rose Petal Touch, Moss Touch or the traditional Peach Skin effects, which are not only important for apparel but also for the automotive and home textile industries. Different fabric qualities can be processed with uniform effects at high performance while maintaining the required basic features of fabrics.

Plush Touch – Raising
To achieve a fluffy, voluminous handle or warming properties, innovative raising machines are required for all types of textile fabrics - from cuddly blankets to outdoor sportswear. The various raising effects are produced by different ratios of pile and counter-pile rollers. By combining the technologies Raising and Emerizing in one process extraordinary surface effects can be created at maximum output speeds, which
would not be possible with conventional technologies. Thus, a homogeneous fabric surface with a uniquely soft and at the same time voluminous handle is achieved.

Even Touch - Shearing, Polishing, Tigering, Float-Shearing
Shearing machines from Xetma Vollenweider have been processing all types of textiles at customers worldwide for more than 145 years with the highest level of quality, reliability and durability. The variable combination of shearing, polishing and tigering technologies offers individual solutions for the respective applications to give the fabric a beautiful and even surface. An uniform pile, shiny effects or the cutting of embroidery jump stitches and weft or warp floats are the results of the high-quality and patented systems.

Level Touch - Carpet Shearing
Xetma Vollenweider carpet shearing machines offer the best performance and highest precision in the processing of all types of woven and tufted carpets, needle felts and artificial turf on machine systems up to 6.0 meters width in a robust design and long service life. New developed systems for carpet pile cleaning and for carpet pile glazing provide unique add-value technologies for a wide range of fiber materials, such as Acrylic, Viscose, Bamboo and traditional Wool.

Clean Touch – Cloth cleaning and finishing
Originally designed for cleaning loom stage woven fabrics prior to finishing, the fabric cleaning solutions of Xetma Vollenweider are nowadays used at various points of the textile production to increase the qualitylevel and to reduce processing costs.

Cooperative Partnership
In addition to technological innovation, Xetma Vollenweider values very much the long-term and cooperative partnership with its customers. Such cooperation starts with initial consulting discussions to, but does not end with the supply of machines. Individual, reliable services for all life-cycle are taken for granted. The result is a sustainable cooperation as well as a long-term competent technological and technical support of the customers. To test new technologies and processes as well as to carry out training and education sessions, Xetma Vollenweider has a state-of-the-art technology center at its German site in Aue. Our customers and interested parties have the opportunity to test their own fabrics with a wide range of added value technologies and develop new collections in a confidential environment.