Hohenstein Institute
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1946 by Otto Mecheels |
| Seat | Bönnigheim , Germany |
| management | Stefan Mecheels |
| Number of employees | > 1,000 |
| Branch | Innovation and service |
| Website | www.hohenstein.de |
The Hohenstein Institute (also Hohenstein HTTI or Hohenstein Textile Testing Institute ) is an international research and service center. Over 500 employees work at the headquarters in Bönnigheim, Baden-Württemberg, mainly on the development, testing and certification of textile products. Laboratories, offices, storage and conference rooms are housed in the historic Hohenstein Renaissance Castle and six modern outbuildings. The Hohenstein Institute is represented by foreign offices in all regions of the world relevant to textile production.
In 1946 Otto Mecheels founded the Hohenstein Institute. The focus for him was the connection between research and practice. His son, Jürgen Mecheels , continued to run the Hohenstein Institute in this spirit and expanded it into an interdisciplinary research and service company. The third generation of the family business has been run by Stefan Mecheels since 1995 .
research
The aim of contract research and publicly funded research projects is to develop new areas of application for textiles in medicine. Numerous research results are created in particular in cooperation with the Forschungskuratorium Textil e. V.
Testing and certification
The Hohenstein Institute conducts the tests and assessments of product quality and performance in the accredited laboratories neutrally and independently. The test results are documented with various certificates and labels, such as that of the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 for textiles tested for harmful substances.
The laboratories of the Hohenstein Institute are accredited according to ISO 17025. There are also further accreditations and approvals for various work areas.
- Accreditation according to DIN EN ISO / IEC 17025: 2018 ( more )
- European notified testing and certification body No. 0555 for personal protective equipment (PPE) ( others )
- Founding member of the International Association for Research and Testing in the Field of Textile Ecology (see Oeko-Tex )
- Member institute of the International Testing Association for Applied UV Protection (UV Standard 801)
- Approval as an expert for the examination of official reserve samples according to § 240 LMBG
Publications
- Josef Kurz : The cultural history of domestic laundry care - women's work and household technology as reflected in the centuries. ISBN 978-3-89904-248-1 .
- Josef Kurz: French laundry and German textile cleaning - the chronicle of commercial textile care in organic solvents. ISBN 978-3-89904-286-3 .
- Josef Kurz: The technical evolution of the steam laundry - a chronicle of the commercial laundry and textile rental services. ISBN 978-3-89904-291-7 .
- Josef Kurz: The cultural history of professional textile care - two thousand years of textile cleanliness through washing and cleaning. ISBN 978-3-89904-314-3 .
- Josef Kurz, Stefan Mecheels : Textile Worlds-The Success Story of the Hohenstein Institute. ISBN 978-3-9812485-0-0 .
- Herbert Vogler , Josef Kurz, Stefan Mecheels: Cultural & Industrial History of Textiles. ISBN 978-3-9812485-3-1 .
- Herbert Vogler, Josef Kurz, Stefan Mecheels: Craft weaving schools and practical universities. ISBN 978-3-943868-01-2 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 20.8 " N , 9 ° 7 ′ 4" E