Multidisciplinary engineering studio for
functional
active
smart
connected
inflatable
functional
active
textile products
We design and manufacture your technical innovations under one European roof.
Bringing your technical innovations to life
Our conviction: building complex technical products requires a multidisciplinary engineering team, a single location bringing all disciplines together, and an iterative innovation process that ships fast and reliably.
Since 2019, in the French Alps near Annecy (Sillingy), we have built that model. Three engineering teams under one roof — embedded electronics, precision mechanics and technical textiles — backed by our own prototyping workshop and a series production line. One goal: deliver products that are reliable, durable and industrializable.
Our core specialty: smart, inflatable and functional textile products. A combination of cross-disciplinary expertise that very few European engineering houses can match. It is our day-to-day work — and your brand stays yours, your IP stays yours: we never compete with the clients we develop products for.
Our favorite playgrounds
Functional textiles
Coated and laminated technical textiles, ergonomics, mechanical and embedded electronics integration, complex fabric architectures...
Wearable inflatables
Wearable airbags, dynamic compression devices, technical inflatable structures, pneumatic soft-robotics — 12 years of airbag expertise...
Smart textiles
Connected garments and e-textiles: biopotential monitoring, haptic feedback, embedded electrostimulation, washable conductive interfaces...
End-to-end product development
Startups, SMEs, mid-caps, large groups or research labs, we offer flexible engagement models, to accelerate your technical textile innovation project!
Engineering design house
Accelerate your textile, electronic and mechanical R&D!
We provide a complete contract engineering team for mechanics, embedded electronics and technical textiles, with a dedicated project lead from kickoff to handover.
A multidisciplinary team gathered in a single location for the most technically demanding textile and wearable projects.
Prototyping and testing
Validate your textile concepts fast!
A design on the screen is worth nothing. Our complete prototyping workshop in electronics, mechanics and textiles, together with our test means, lets us deliver reliable, robust and industrializable products.
Industrialization & certification
From idea to series production!
Assembly process design, quality control, supplier qualification, CE marking and ISO 13485 certification. We handle this critical step of turning a textile prototype into an industrializable, certified product.
Manufacturing & assembly
European-made technical textile production!
Manufacturing and assembly of your technical textile products in France is a critical step. Our dedicated team, our qualified European partners and our quality and traceability processes deliver an optimized response to your low-volume and small-series production needs.
Innovation at the core of our DNA
For us, innovation is far more than a buzzword or a checkbox: it is a real mindset that means developing technical textile products starting from the field, in collaboration between engineering teams, client, end-users and production.
To innovate, you have to test, understand, iterate... it is a process and a state of mind. Our teams live in this environment, project after project.
Project management — at the heart of every technical challenge — serves a single goal: combine end-user constraints and industrial reality to push beyond what has already been done.
Many people talk about innovation, "lean" or "agile" — but beyond the words, it is a way of operating. Putting the understanding of needs and problems at the heart of our work, validating each technical brick early and on the ground, then industrializing it. And along the way: your IP stays yours, your brand stays yours.
A complete engineering team
Mechanical
3D CAD, multiphysics simulation, plastics design, precision assembly...
Electronics
PCB design, embedded electronics, IoT, firmware and software, sensor integration (IMU, biopotential)...
Technical textiles
Patterning, 3D modeling, sewing assembly, HF welding, integration of washable sensors...
Let's discuss your textile project
Are you developing a smart, inflatable or functional textile product that combines several technologies? Are you looking for an engineering partner who can take you from concept to series production? Want to explore whether AQ-Tech is the right partner? NDA before any technical discussion. Reply within 48 hours.
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