The German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf as the parent company of ITV Denkendorf Produktservice GmbH can reflect on a history rich in tradition and science:

2026
ITVP celebrates its 25th anniversary

2019 - today
increased public relations efforts and international expansion: attracting new customers and developing new, innovative products, ranging from polymers to textile implants.

2015
first independent website goes live

2013
Managing Director of ITVP: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Götz T. Gresser

2006
ITVP is exhibiting for the first time at the international trade fair Medica, also known as Compamed.

2005
Expansion of the clean rooms to a total of 1,200 m² and purchase of new equipment to increase capacity.

2001
Spin-off of ITVP from ITV Denkendorf as a 100% subsidiary of the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research directed by Prof. Dr.-Ing. H. Planck.

1998
Early on, the ITV Denkendorf established a quality management system for medical devices to enable industrial partners to manufacture preliminary products under certified conditions. In 1998, the development and production of medical devices were certified for the first time according to DIN EN ISO 13485.

1996
First accreditation of testing laboratories at the ITV.

1995
First Expansion of the clean rooms of today's ITVP for surgical suture production.

1980
In 1980, this led to the creation of the research area of biomedical engineering at the ITV Denkendorf, which was concerned with the development of a variety of textile implants.

1974
As early as 1974, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Planck was working on textile arterial prostheses with a fibrous structure as part of his doctoral thesis at the Institute for Textile Technology (then still in Reutlingen).