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Follow me.reports - Life as a young founder
How are you perceived as a young founder? And what are the difficulties of starting a business at such a young age?
QiTech
25.11.2024
New store for our recycled filament
We have scaled up our filament production and now also sell 100% recycled filament to private customers.
QiTech Recycling
25.4.2024
Find out more around the topic of material research on JANTEC's YouTube
How we use material testing to help the industry gain valuable data & recycle plastic waste simply and efficiently
QiTech Recycling
27.8.2023
We have won the "KfW Award for Founding"!
We were able to convince the jury with our business idea and became the winner for Rhineland-Palatinate
QiTech Industries
28.10.2022
Latest Posts
SWR2 report about our founding history
SWR2 visited us in our garage and gave an in-depth documentary on the history of our founding.
QiTech
28.1.2021
The intelligent speed control from our Winder
How our Winder automatically adjusts the speed to the tension and achieves perfectly wound filament
QiTech Industries
25.1.2021
Our Winder at Precious Plastic!
We are selling our machines from QiTech Industries in the Precious Plastic Bazar with immediate effect!
QiTech Industries
24.1.2021
How to dry your granulate before extrusion
Learn here how to dry your own granules before extrusion to achieve the best possible results.
QiTech Industries
6.1.2021
Industries in "dmpi" magazine
QiTech Industries in the latest issue of the "NUTZEN" magazine
QiTech Industries
28.12.2020
An extract from the SWR interview with Meike Schalk
In this short excerpt, Malte explains what our company QiTech Industries is about, and what our goals are.
QiTech Industries
19.12.2020
New product Coming soon...
An insight into the production
QiTech
30.11.2020
We visited Tomra Recycling
Today I visited Tomra Recycling, the market leader in plastic waste sorting technology.
QiTech
25.11.2020
2nd place at the Kika Award
Thank you so much for the nomination and this mega cool event. It was a great and exciting evening.
QiTech
21.11.2020
Presentation Kika Award
QiTech is nominated in the category "Young Science" together with @dream_green_act_green and the research project "Blob".
QiTech
20.11.2020
Nominated for the Kika Award
This Friday 19:30 Live at the Kika Award. Nominated in the category Young Science
QiTech
18.11.2020
This is how winding works with our Winder
In this video, we show you how you can use our Winder in the production of filament
QiTech Industries
17.11.2020
Mainz Founders' Week
Today was the kick-off event of the Mainzer Gründer Woche.
QiTech
16.11.2020
We were at the Youth Climate Forum
Yesterday we were live at the YCF in Rhineland-Palatinate
QiTech
14.11.2020
We now have our own boxes!
From now on, all orders will be shipped in environmentally friendly boxes!
QiTech Industries
3.11.2020
The Allgemeine Zeitung was with us!
The general newspaper has written an article about QiTech Industries wrote.
QiTech Industries
29.10.2020
The first QiTech Winder abroad!
Our first machine outside Germany.
QiTech Industries
5.10.2020
Deeper insights into our work at Industries
In this video you get a little deeper insight into our work.
QiTech Industries
3.10.2020
Industries is in the final of StartUpTeens
With @qitech.industries we made it into the top 5 of the @startup_teens competition!
QiTech Industries
24.9.2020
We made it into the StartupTeens online voting!
With your vote you can help us to reach the finals of StartUp Teens.
QiTech Industries
21.9.2020
Our first Winder sale!
We have now sold our first self-developed machine! Learn more here.
QiTech Industries
12.9.2020
Perfectly wound, a noticeable difference
Therefore, perfectly wound filament is important.
QiTech Industries
9.9.2020
Machine sale started!
Today we have started our machine sale.
QiTech Industries
27.8.2020
Efficient use of space due to the vertical design
Thanks to the vertical design, our overall system hardly uses any table space and fits perfectly into any setup.
QiTech Industries
11.8.2020
We participate in Start Up Teens!
QiTech Industries is a student company that develops and sells machines for 3D printing filament production.
QiTech Industries
1.8.2020
"The nursery boss"
Today in the Handelsblatt! It's about the paperwork chaos when you want to set up a company as a young person.
QiTech
31.7.2020
We have redesigned our blog a bit
The news page is now complete with nearly 100 articles about the development of the company since January 2019.
QiTech
27.7.2020
The new website is online
The new website is a huge leap for QiTech.
QiTech
20.7.2020
Visor shipping improvements
But the coolest improvement is actually this Tesa parcel tape roller, which makes packing really fun again.
23.6.2020
A visit to ADIS Plastics
Thanks to the managing director Jan Schaar I could get an insight into an industrial production today.
QiTech
18.6.2020
Recycle industrial waste into new granules
Here we have a pile of industrial waste from a large plastics company in Ingelheim processed into granules.
QiTech
16.6.2020
We are in the leisure revue!
This week, our project is featured in Leisure Revue.
QiTech
12.6.2020
Student team produces visors//nine1/2
Neun 1/2 presented our production in an article about relief actions of pupils in Germany.
QiTech
4.6.2020
Where does our motivation come from? - SWR Heimat
@swr_heimat_rp presented our production yesterday.
QiTech
28.5.2020
Two forms 2x speed
We have once again doubled our speed.
QiTech
22.5.2020
The recycling injection molding production
We produce so much that we have to replace the screws, which should last months, every day.
QiTech
21.5.2020
Visors for business and retail
Every day, we donate 100 visors to charitable organizations and produce all other visors for companies and individuals. From the bakery to the ice cream parlor, everywhere our visors are in use.
14.5.2020
1500+ visors Donated / Another 100 every day
We have now produced and donated a total of 1500 visors, recycling dozens of bags of plastic waste.
QiTech
13.5.2020
Professional photos from production //Lumengraphy
Step-by-step explanation: this is how the manufacturing process of our recycled visors works
QiTech
11.5.2020
The LOGO children's news report about us!
[Video] The article is about our motivation to donate over 100 visors every day and we introduce the production.
QiTech
4.5.2020
We recycle the Coca-Cola waste!
New material for recycling and the beverage supply is now secured thanks to CocaCola.
QiTech
1.5.2020
Sight production in the RLP state show
In the report we show our manufacturing process and I explain why we donate the visors.
QiTech
24.4.2020
Nationwide in the Bild newspaper
Yesterday our action was nationwide in the Bild! Every day we donate 100 visors to charitable organizations.
QiTech
24.4.2020
With waste against the virus/ Allgemeine Zeitung
Yesterday we were in the General Newspaper.
QiTech
23.4.2020
How to produce visors from plastic waste?//SWR1
The week our recycled visors were featured on SWR 1.
QiTech
23.4.2020
Our production runs almost now 24/7
Slowly our production takes industrial proportions and we produce almost 300 Corona protective visors pro day
QiTech
22.4.2020
300+ visors made from plastic waste every day
For example, we produce our visors from plastic waste in order to donate them to aid organizations.
QiTech
15.4.2020
Series production starts!
[Video time lapse] Series production starts. We mainly used bottle caps and shampoo bottles for production.
11.4.2020
Prototype rapid-fire method!
[Video] We have developed a rapid-fire method for our new injection molding machine so that we can be even faster.
QiTech
9.4.2020
Construction of a new injection molding machine!
A time-lapse of working on a new small injection molding machine given to us by David Thönnes of Artme 3D.
QiTech
8.4.2020
Gesischtschutzvisiere production started
As of now, we are temporarily printing face masks to donate to the surrounding organizations where they are desperately needed.
QiTech
30.3.2020
We're on the Meltzone Podcast!
We're on the Meltzone Podcast! On Meltzone, @cnckitchenyt and @toms3d explain the latest developments in the 3D printing industry.
QiTech
17.2.2020
Paul Leaves Us and Founds Netucation
Paul has decided to start his own business and leaves QiTech. He has been working on his own company "Netucation" for over a year and now wants to focus 100% on it.
QiTech
7.2.2020
We are Live! // Coffee or Tea
Yesterday we were live at Coffee or Tea with Evelin König! In the interview, we talk about our experiences as founders and our trip to Silicon Valley.
QiTech
5.2.2020
Merkurist: Young Oppenheimers found their own company
We were in the Mercurist today! Chiara Scherf visited us in the workshop!
QiTech
16.1.2020
Plastic Recycling 3D Printing Start-Up /DASDING
DASDING has visited us. In their article we tell about the latest progress in our development and about our vision.
QiTech
9.1.2020
New take up machine for our filament
In this video we explain how our new rewinding machine is built.
QiTech
5.1.2020
Workshop on recycling and 3D printing for students
We held a workshop on recycling and 3D printing for a school class from the Helene Lange School in Wiesbaden.
QiTech
21.12.2019
We are on TV!
Today we were in the Landesschau of Rhineland-Palatinate. A camera team from SWR visited us in our garage and filmed our manufacturing process.
QiTech
17.12.2019
We are in the General Newspaper!
We were in the Allgemeine Zeitung yesterday after our appearance at the Mainzer Gründerwoche.
QiTech
23.11.2019
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".
QiTech
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)
QiTech
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.
QiTech
16.10.2019
Authorities slow down students / Allgemeine Zeitung
The Allgemeine Zeitung reports today about our difficulties with bureaucracy.
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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).
QiTech
5.10.2019
We are at the school festival!
Yesterday we were at the school festival. Thanks to everyone who came to our booth!
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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.
QiTech
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!
QiTech
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.
QiTech
22.6.2019
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