ongoing investment in the Seifhennersdorf location and expansion of our product mix to include everything from textiles for military technology via parachute and storage system technologies to aviation technology.

Senol Yegin acquires the company

continuing production following the collapse of communism

Helmut Henschel develops a new gliding parachute
Start of scientific testing methods and wind-tunnel tests

Production of civil and military parachutes and clothing items with a work-force of approx. 700

Parachute development unit’ founded

Production of clothing items and textiles for home and work-place

S. Henking Textile Manufacture under the management of Siegfried Henking Development and production of parachutes with a work-force of more than 2,000 Various production branches established in Berlin, Como and Paris Production of freight and emergency parachutes Expropriation following World War II

Production of packing and packaging materials

Production in the Mill under the Management of Hugo Zietz

Dyeing and Weaving on shuttle looms; Marx founds his own school, a bank and a health centre; special materials are supplied worldwide, e.g. to Melbourne, Australia Following the death of H. R. Marx the Mill is auctioned off

Heinrich Robert Marx establishes textiles production in Seifhennersdorf.