Within the fair Techtexil the Techtextil Innovation Award was awarded in the category “New Technology” to the company Nähmaschinenfabrik Emil Stutznäcker GmbH & Co.KG, Cologne who developed a sewing technology for joining of textiles for the manufacturing of fibre reinforced plastics (frp) together with the Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University.