Mattes & Ammann products bag Oeko-Tex 1000 certificate

The company additionally manufacture a wide range of other knit fabrics for different technical uses and industries such as lining materials for trade fair stands, flame-retardant fabrics for aircraft construction and interior furnishing of buildings, knit fabrics for chair covers and seats in rail vehicles, functional materials for foundation garments, antistatic woven linings for clothing or textile materials for food packaging.

Quality, power of innovation and customer focus

Efficient quality management in close connection with all company processes is of particular importance at Mattes & Ammann. The company can already look back on numerous successful certifications in quality management, including the successful implementation of ISO/TS 16949:2009 as proof of quality for suppliers in the automotive industry.

Christoph Larsen-Mattes explains why the supplied quality has an elementary influence on the company itself: "A whole bundle of targeted measures and strategies is required to secure the location and the jobs provided by the company. The basis, however, is still the perfect implementation of customer requests and requirements. Our long standing experience and wide ranging know-how enable us to guarantee first rate quality which contributes to customer satisfaction."

The strength of the company consequently is their power of innovation. Customer requirements in turn are the focus of in-house development work. Mattes & Ammann are also involved in joint research projects with universities and colleges, research institutes and scientific working groups and take part in numerous professional associations, alliances and interdisciplinary clusters.

The aim is to sound out innovations in the area of textile technology applications for practicable possibilities for use. An extremely successful example for this is the market introduction of the innovative super light mattress fabric "easyair federleicht" in 2009. Thanks to special processing methods of the state-of-the-art circular knitting machines at Mattes & Ammann, product properties such as an excellent feel to the touch through unusually high volume quality as well as elasticity and breathability can be achieved.

Further breathable textiles with excellent human physiology properties for use in seating furniture as well as in the automotive seating sector have been developed in cooperation with Lenzing AG and the Eurofoam Group. Intensive development work lead to the creation of a new type of cellulose foam especially for automotive interiors. For this product there is also a focus on sustainability, as Christoph Larsen-Mattes explains: "Cellulose material absorbs moisture very well without storing it. As it is a natural raw material is can be safely used with regard to the environment."