[4] In 2014, the Fraunhofer Application Center for Textile Fiber Ceramics (TFK) was founded in cooperation with the Hof University of Applied Sciences.
[3][5] Since 2017, the premises of the Fraunhofer-Center HTL in Bayreuth are being extended by a technical center with a fiber pilot plant, which is to be completed in late 2019.
In addition, processes such as 3D printing are also available at the Fraunhofer Centre HTL for the production of metal and ceramic components with complex geometries.
To test high-temperature materials and optimise their manufacturing processes, the Fraunhofer Centre HTL is developing ThermoOptic Measuring (TOM) furnaces.
[11] In the premises of the parent institute Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg, the HTL has 20 office workstations, three laboratories and a pilot plant with an area of 630 m2.