“My hand for my product.”

In the composite workshop at Stemme’s Pasewalk facility, aircraft structures are not produced on an automated line. They are built through craftsmanship, precision and teamwork. Here, laminating composite structures means creating the very skeleton of the aircraft — a structure that will carry pilots safely for decades.

Birgit Minow leads this workshop. With a background rooted in textile engineering and decades of experience in fibre materials, she and her team work at the very beginning of the manufacturing process. Their responsibility is fundamental: what is created here will later be invisible beneath paint and finish, yet it determines safety, reliability and performance over the entire life of the aircraft.

Every day begins with clear objectives, structured workflows and close coordination within the team. Each component is produced according to strict aviation standards, verified step by step, documented and checked under the four-eyes principle. There is no room for shortcuts. Composite work follows its own laws — time, temperature, material behaviour and sequence must be respected. As Birgit explains, it is like baking: processes cannot be rushed without compromising the result.

This is small-series manufacturing at its purest. Each aircraft is built according to customer configuration. Each component carries slightly different material characteristics, shaped by fibres, resin, curing conditions and the hands that apply them. This is why every Stemme aircraft is, quite literally, a unique piece.

What defines the workshop just as much as technical discipline is its human culture. Experience is shared, younger colleagues are guided, and mistakes are treated as opportunities to improve processes, not to assign blame. Responsibility is collective, but accountability is individual.

When a completed aircraft leaves the hangar, there is pride — not only in the result, but in the knowledge that everyone involved would step into that aircraft with full confidence.

“My hand for my product.”
For Birgit and her team, this is not a slogan. It is a commitment.