mtex antenna technologies GmbH wins the 2025 “Grand Prize for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses”

On September 13, 2025, mtex antenna technologies GmbH (mtex) was named the winner from Hesse in the “Großer Preis des Mittelstandes” (Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Businesses) competition. This award recognizes the company’s above-average innovative strength, quality, and future orientation.

“From the workshop to space adventures” – under this motto, mtex demonstrates how German engineering sets the highest standards in radio astronomy. With the development of a patented technology for manufacturing high-precision antennas from aluminum mirror segments, mtex is currently working on the construction of the first 18 m ngVLA telescope, part of the largest radio astronomy project of the next decade.

Technical highlights include:

• ngVLA 18m telescope for American astronomers. From 2028, the ngVLA is to be expanded into the largest radio astronomy research facility in the northern hemisphere.
• ESA’s latest 35m deep space antenna in Australia will be completed and handed over at the end of 2025.
• DSA2000 program. Here, up to 2000 antennas are to be erected to form a highly sensitive antenna array for Caltech. Mass production of the 6.15m antennas will begin at the end of 2025.

Thanks to its specialization in precision antennas and telescopes for radio astronomy, the technological expertise of its founding family, and its confidence in solid German engineering, mtex considers itself well positioned for the challenges and opportunities ahead. The award at the Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Businesses reinforces the company’s focus on scientific institutions, ministries, authorities, and research facilities. Open communication, reliability, and partnership-based cooperation remain core values.

Since 2021, mtex has been a portfolio company of the Schauenburg International Group, which specializes in high-growth, technology-oriented companies. This partnership has enabled mtex to further strengthen its international competitiveness and drive forward important innovation projects.

Florian Schauenburg, CEO of the Schauenburg International Group, congratulates: “We are very proud that mtex antenna technologies has been awarded the Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Businesses. The company’s innovative strength and technical excellence are impressive and fit perfectly with our strategy of supporting visionary medium-sized companies on their growth path. We see the space sector as a major market of the future and an opportunity to strengthen our portfolio.”