Heimbach Group

In 1811 the entrepreneur Thomas Josef Heimbach formed a textile business, initially manufacturing clothing textiles. The company’s headquarters were then and still are today in Düren: Because of the Rur’s soft water, lending itself exceptionally well to paper manufacture, numerous producers set up here. Heimbach recognised the opportunity and switched their line of production from clothing fabrics to felts for handmade paper. Today’s main area of business, “paper machine clothing”, was born.