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Why we are selling 20% of the company
Our new YouTube documentary offers an unvarnished look at the technical and business milestones from QiTech first five years
13.2.2026
New subsidiary: QiTech
We have spun off our software division as a separate subsidiary and now also offer automation projects for external customers.
4.12.2025
Latest posts
We are in the Landesschau! / SWR
We were today in the Landesschau of the SWR! The title of the contribution is "From garbage to shell".
7.11.2019
Silicon Valley Winners Trip / Jugend Gründet
Jugend Gründet national winner teams Qi-Tech and exclamo. Jan, Julius, Milan, Paul, Kai (from left and right)
2.11.2019
We are on RTL / Punkt 12
Today we were in the RTL Mittagsmagazin Punkt 12! During a tour of our garage, our business idea is presented.
16.10.2019
Authorities slow down students / Allgemeine Zeitung
The Allgemeine Zeitung reports today about our difficulties with bureaucracy.
12.10.2019
Garages company rejected / BILD newspaper
We were in the Bild newspaper again today. The article describes the bureaucratic chaos around the foundation of our company.
8.10.2019
Our new plastic melt!
Over the last 3 months we have developed our new plastic melt (Extruder). With the Extruder we melt the shredded plastic waste to the fine wire for the 3D printers (3D printing filament).
5.10.2019
We are at the school festival!
Yesterday we were at the school festival. Thanks to everyone who came to our booth!
22.9.2019
We are in the Bild newspaper!
We were in the Bild newspaper today. Yesterday Marco Schwarz and Joerg Halisch visited us in our garage and we told them about our company Qi-Tech.
19.9.2019
Presentation at the community festival
Yesterday we were at the community festival of the Katharinenkirche in Oppenheim. We explained our business idea to the visitors there with our booth and presented our prototypes.
2.9.2019
Foundation with obstacles
Today we were in the General Newspaper after the special award ceremony in the Teachers' Room. We also reported on the many problems when you start a business as a student.
13.8.2019
Special price in the teacher's room!
Today we received a special award of 500€ from Andrea Fritsch (Chamber of Tax Advisors Rhineland-Palatinate) for our performance at Jugend Gründet.
12.8.2019
We are on SWR 3 Radio!
Jakob Reifenberger from SWR3 visited us. Focus of the interview: The huge bureaucratic hurdles of starting a company as a young person.
10.8.2019
We have received 4000€ from the Education Foundation!
We have received 4000€ funding from the Stiftung Bildung! We had applied with our idea within the framework of the "Entrepreneurship Education" project fund of the Stiftung Bildung.
25.6.2019
We are in the national final of Jugend Gründet!
Recently we received the invitation for the national final of Jugend Gründet! We are prepared and have built a huge booth!
22.6.2019
Youth Founds Winner 2019
We have won the Jugend Gründet final! With our idea to produce 3D printing filament and personalizable cell phone cases from plastic waste, we convinced the jury.
22.6.2019
Talk with the district administrator of Mainz-Bingen!
Today we were invited by the District Administrator of Mainz-Bingen, Dorothea Schäfer.
1.6.2019
RPR 1 Radio visits us!
Today RPR1 visited us in the garage. We presented our idea and the recycling process. In the interview we told about our vision.
6.5.2019
We are in the newspaper!
Today Ulrich Gerecke from the Allgemeine Zeitung visited us. We exchanged ideas and we presented our recycling process live.
15.4.2019
3rd place at the Jugend Gründet intermediate final!
We competed at the pitch event in Oberkochen together with 7 other teams for the regional first place.
12.4.2019
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