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the Future Cluster Chemistry / Plastics Central Germany

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BUSINESS COMMUNITY

Cluster spokesman ScienceContact person Prof. Dr. Ralf B. Wehrspohn – Director

Address Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials HalleWalter-Hülse-Straße 1, D-06120 Halle (Saale)

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 345 / 55 89 100Fax: +49 (0) 345 / 55 89 101Email: [email protected]

Cluster management coordinated by isw GmbHContact person Dr. habil. Gunthard Bratzke / Stefan Basus

Address Seebener Straße 22, D-06114 Halle (Saale)

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 345 / 299 82 726Fax: +49 (0) 345 / 299 82 711Email: [email protected]: www.cluster-chemie-kunststoffe.de

CeChemNet coordinated by isw GmbHFiene Grieger – Project Manager

Seebener Straße 22, D-06114 Halle (Saale)

Phone: +49 (0) 345 / 299 82 718Fax: +49 (0) 345 / 299 82 711Email: [email protected]: www.cechemnet.de

Cluster spokesman PlasticsDr. Reinhard Proske – Managing Director

CircleSmartCard GmbHIn den Weiden 4, D-99099 Erfurt

Phone: +49 (0) 361 / 550 880Fax: +49 (0) 361 / 5508 830Email: [email protected]: www.circlesmartcard.com

Cluster spokesman ChemistryContact person Kathrin Sommer – Department for Technology & Environment

Address Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V., Landesverband Nordost, Office HalleKleine Klausstaße 14, D-06108 Halle (Saale)

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 345 / 388 07 51Fax: +49 (0) 345 / 388 07 60Mobile: +49 (0) 174 195 75 53Email: [email protected]: www.nordostchemie.de

Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V., Landesverband NordostContact person Dr. Paul Kriegelsteiner, Lawyer – General Manager

Address Hallerstr. 6, D-10587 Berlin

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 343816 0Fax: +49 (0) 30 / 343819 28Email: [email protected]: www.nordostchemie.de

Gesamtverband Kunststoffverarbeitende Industrie (GKV)Dr. Oliver Möllenstädt – General Manager

Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 43, D-61348 Bad Homburg

Phone: +49 (0) 6172 / 926675Fax: +49 (0) 6172 / 926674Email: [email protected]: www.gkv.de

Cluster spokesmanContact person Dr. Christoph Mühlhaus

Address c/o InfraLeuna GmbH, Am Haupttor, Gebäude 4310, D-06237 Leuna

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 3461 / 43 6828Fax: +49 (0) 3461 / 43 4290 Email: [email protected]: www.cluster-chemie-kunststoffe.de

Cluster spokesman FeedstocksAndreas Dietrich – Tonnage Account Manager / Head On-Site Management

LINDE AG, Gases DivisionSpergauer Straße 1a, D-06237 Leuna

Phone: +49 (0) 3461 / 853 334Fax: +49 (0) 3461 / 853 372Mobile: +49 (0) 160 96 22 55 35Email: [email protected]: www.linde-gas.com

ASSOCIATIONS / INDUSTRIAL UNIONS

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie Landesbezirk NordostContact person Petra Reinbold-Knape – District Manager

Address Inselstraße 6, D-10179 Berlin

Contact details Phone: +49 (030) 278713 – 43Fax: +49 (030) 278713 - 44Email: [email protected]: www.igbce.de

Germany trade and InvestContact person Peggy Görlitz – Senior Manager

Plastics Processing Mechanical & Electronic TechnologiesDr. Marcus C. Schmidt – Director Healthcare & Chemicals

Address Friedrichstraße 60, D-10117 Berlin Friedrichstraße 60, D-10117 Berlin

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 200099 602Email: [email protected]

Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 200099 600Fax: +49 (0) 30 / 200099 111Email: [email protected]: www.gtai.com

ZAB ZukunftsAgentur Brandenburg GmbHPhillipp Ruta – Projektmanager Clean Technologies, Plastics, Chemics

Steinstraße 104 – 106, D-14480 Potsdam

Phone: +49 (0) 331 / 660 31 61Fax: +49 (0) 331 / 660 32 22Email: [email protected]: www.invest-in-brandenburg.com

LEG Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft thüringen mbHContact person Dr. Jürgen Geilfuss – Investment, International Business and

Cluster Promotion

Address Mainzerhofstraße 12, D-99084 Erfurt

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 361 / 5603 456Fax: +49 (0) 361 / 5603 328Email: [email protected]: www.invest-in-thuringia.de

EUROPEAN NETWORKS

ECrN - European Chemical regions Network SecretariatContact person Catrin Gutowsky – Head of Division

Ministry for Science and Economic Affairs Saxony-AnhaltDr. Hanny Nover – Director of the ECRN Network Secretariat

Address Hasselbachstraße 4, D-39104 Magdeburg Boulevard St.Michel 80, B-1040 Bruxelles

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 391 / 567 4452Fax: +49 (0) 391 / 567 4722 Email: [email protected]

Phone: +32 (0) 274 10 949Fax: +32 (0) 274 10 927Mobile: +32 (0) 485 66 79 50Email: [email protected]: www.ecrn.net

IMG Investitions- und Marketinggesellschaft Sachsen-Anhalt mbHContact person Nico Horn – Project Manager Chemicals / Plastics

Address Am Alten Theater 6, D-39104 Magdeburg

Contact details Phone: +49 (0) 391 / 56899 28Fax: +49 (0) 391 / 56899 50Email: [email protected]: www.investieren-in-sachsen-anhalt.de

wirtschaftsförderung Sachsen GmbHDr. Uwe Lienig – Industry Sector Manager Mechanical and Plant Engineering

Bertolt-Brecht-Allee 22, D-01309 Dresden

Phone: +49 (0) 351 / 2138 136Fax: +49 (0) 351 / 2138 109Email: [email protected]: www.wfs.sachsen.de

Contents

Contents

The World’s Oldest “Plastics” Comes from Central Germany

Saxony-Anhalt - Heartland of Central German Chemistry

Brandenburg - Cluster focusses on Future Issues

Thuringia - Innovative and Export Oriented Plastics Industry

Saxony - Stronghold of Plastics Processing

Central German chemistry early advanced by Good Location Factors

Record Values in Central German Chemical and Plastics Sector

Challenges and Opportunities in Central Germany

Features of the Cluster Chemistry / Plastics Central Germany

“Cluster Chemistry / Plastics” Facing a Re-orientation

MIDs Making Everyday Life Easier

Form follows function – Lightweight solar panel pro safety and aesthetics on the roof

Aircraft lightweight construction powered by chemistry

Fire Protection thanks to “AP Fibre”

Plastics in Dentistry

Super Rubber for Tires Is on the Roll

The World’s most Lightweight Truck Seat – Made by “IFA-Technologies”

Innovative Plastic Lenses for New Types of LEDs

Feedstock Integration in the Central German Chemical Triangle

Chemical Parks – a Concept for Global Chemistry

Securing Skilled Personnel – A Challenge for the Chemical and Plastics Sector

European Chemical Regions Network “ECRN” is bundling various interests

Tracking & Tracing of Dangerous Goods

Alliance of Chemistry Willing to Promote Sustainable Development

“Hypos” – A Revolution in Hydrogen Industry

Innovation landscape overview

Chemical Parks and Sites

Networks / Associations

Research institutions at universities and technical colleges

Associated institutes and extra-mural research institutions

Competence centres

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Editorial

Chemistry and Plastics in Central Germany

Key technology Applications

Parks and projects

Innovation landscape

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t he world’s oldest “plastics” comes from Central Germany. However, it is not shown in the “German Museum of

Chemistry” in Merseburg but in the “State Museum of Prehistory” in Halle (Saale) belonging to the “State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology“. With a length of 2.7 centi-metres and a weight of 1.38 grams, the piece of evidence is relatively small, but vitally important. It was found in the lignite open-cast mining of Königsaue in the district of Aschersleben – Staßfurt in 1963. The find spot is not far from Bernburg and Staßfurt where the first Central German chemical sites emerged during the second half of the 19th century. The tiny plain nugget from Königsaue is the remains of mounting filler that is not less than 80,000 years old. It is spectacular in two different ways.

the world’s oldest ”Plastics“ Comes from Central GermanySynthetic birch pitch from Königsaue is 80,000 years old

Text: according to Arnold Muhl, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie, published by Harald Meller (Hg.): Geisteskraft. Alt- und Mittelpaläolithikum. Begleithefte zur Daueraustellung im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle, Band 1. Halle (Saale), 2005.Photo: Juraj Liptàk

On one hand, the result of its chemi-cal analysis shows that its substance consists of birch tree bark pitch and is therefore is the oldest synthetic material ever found. This glue was made by Neanderthal men to fix stone tools in wooden handles.

An exploration of the “State Of-fice of Criminal Investigation of

Saxony-Anhalt” then revealed the second sensation: This piece of pitch had

been visibly kneaded, so that even a weak fin-gerprint was preserved. It is regarded as the first known logo of a Neanderthal. Contrary to other Palaeolithic glues like resin, amber, asphalt or

bitumen, which can be melted by heating alone, the birch pitch, however, can only be extracted

synthetically, which is done by a controlled car-bonisation of birch tree barks hermetically sealed

and at a relatively constant temperature between 340 and 400 degree Celsius. Yet, any attempts

to reproduce this “plastics” true to the original one without the help of any modern means has failed so far.

6 EdItorIAL

Saxony-Anhalt - Heartland of Central German Chemistry

t he chemical industry has been coining the structure of trade in Central Germany for many years. It is mar-

ket leader in export and a real heavy weight in business vo-lume and employment. After the process of its restructure at the beginning of the 1990’s, the large chemical sites in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg tur-ned out to be among the most modern ones across Europe and still are today, especially distinguishing themselves through being excellently high-performance and innovative. The sector cannot only look back on a tradition of more than 100 years but will also stay a dynamo for the whole regional economy.

In order to initiate further development, the chemical and plastics processing industries are bound to invest more in innovation potential. Yet, in the long run, only those will be economically suc-cessful which are setting the benchmark in quality and marketing orientation, are quick on laun-ching marketable products and services and able to improve the efficiency by process innovation. Therefore, the enhanced cooperation of large and small-scale chemical industries, chemical parks, specialized service providers, science and research facilities, educational institutions, trade associ-ations, politics and administration plays an important role, especially for small and medium-sized companies, which due to their scale are not able to sufficiently invest sufficiently in research and development.

The “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics Central Germany” has been initiated a trans-regional cluster process, which among others is aimed at improving the innovation capacity of especially the small and medium-sized companies as well as at establishing valued-added chains. Another declared aim lies in strengthening Central Germany as an internationally competitive region of chemistry and plastics, which is highly attractive for both start-ups and existing businesses and institutions that need a good market position.

The positive development of the chemical and plastics processing industry in Central Germany is also a credit of the activities of the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics Central Germany”. They are suc-cessfully attended by this “Cluster Atlas”, which – due to its concise characterization of sites on the one hand, and its clearly arranged illustration of research and development potentials on the other – has contributed to re-establishing Central Germany as a chemistry location of European significance. That is why, it is especially promising to hear that a new edition of the Cluster Atlas is published now.

Sector strengthens cooperation in the field of research

Hartmut MöllringMinister for Science

and Economic Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt

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Brandenburg - Cluster Focusses on Future IssuesClose networking increases competitiveness

Ralf ChristoffersMinister for Economics and Euro-

pean Affairs, State of Brandenburg

t he chemical and plastics industry will grow above average in the coming years. That is the prediction of economic resear-

chers. In Brandenburg the chemical and plastics industry will also still have potential for the future. To create the appropriate framework for this purpose the state government has made a clear commitment to the cluster plastics and chemistry to its importance to the region. The cluster covers the whole range of the sector. The activities of the cluster will lead to an improved networking of stakeholders, support the development of compa-nies and identify the opportunities for future developments in Brandenburg. Objectives of the cluster are the implementation

of appropriate regulatory framework for the competitiveness of the chemical and plastics com-panies and the strengthening of the business location Brandenburg. Future oriented topics like biopolymers and lightweight construction determine the focus of the cluster work, other topics are fine chemicals, chemical logistics and the future availability of technically skilled professionals. In addition to regional also supra- regional coorporation is intended. Here Brandenburg cooperates in particular with its partners in Central Germany.

With a total workforce of about 11,600, a consolidated turnover of more than 3 billion Euros and about 400 companies the chemical and plastics industry belongs to the most important industries. Hardly any other industry is so closely connected with all other sectors of the economy. One in eight jobs in the manufacturing industry is supplied by the chemical and plastics industry. About 15% of the consolidated turnover of Brandenburg’s manufacturing industry is generated by this sector. This impressively underlines the importance of the chemical and plastics industry for the State of Brandenburg.

The chemical and plastics industry has a long tradition in Central Germany - and in the State of Brandenburg. With the industrial development in the second half of the 19th-century the chemical and later the plastics industry were developed. In the city of Erkner, located at the gates of Berlin, the fully synthetic plastic production was developed on an industrial scale for the first time ever in 1909. That’s why Brandenburg has become the cradle of the modern plastic age.

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thuringia - Innovative and Export oriented Plastics Industry

t huringia is one of most attractive investment destinations in Germany. This is not an empty boast, but the result of a study by the renowned

American trade magazine “Site Selection.” One of our biggest industries is the rubber- and plastics trade, which

comes after the metal industry, automobile production, food production and processing, and machine construction and engineering. It had the fifth largest level of turnover among all industries represented in the state of Thuringia in 2012. It employs 16,000 people in 190 companies and generates a total of about 3 billion Euros in sales, of which 1.1 billion results from export sales (companies with more than 20 employees). The Plastics Industry in Thuringia has proven itself once again as a centre of innovation and a job generator for highly-skilled and qualified workers.

This shows that our successful initiatives—especially those toward achieving a closer cooperation between research and development institutes and plastics- and rubber companies—have paid off. The scope of the collaboration with these research centres even outside state lines has reached an impressive extent. There is growing recognition of Thuringia’s significance in the national and in-ternational division of labour, and local companies are increasingly participating in this exchange.

The re-location of PolymerMat, the network of plastics companies in Thuringia, to the Technical University of Ilmenau has once again strengthened their bonds to university research institutes. Through the support of the Thuringian Cluster Management (or ThCM) within the Landesentwick-lungsgesellschaft (Thuringia’s investment and development agency), PolymerMat’s partnership with the Halle-based Chemical/Plastic Cluster of Central Germany has intensified. They have cooperated on several projects and events, such as the “Central Germany Plastics Day“, and have shared trade fair participation in international plastics conventions. This is a practical and reliable way of building permanent business relations in a multi-faceted and diverse industry, and could be an example for other industries.

We have provided you with a Cluster Atlas, an easy-to-read reference book about the plastics in-dustry in Central Germany. Please use this manual to inform yourselves about the most important facts and developments in the plastics business.

Joint projects strengthen Central German sites

Matthias MachnigMinister for Economy, Labour and Technology in the Free State of Thuringia

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Saxony - Stronghold of Plastics ProcessingBusinesses benefit from established research network

Sven MorlokMinister for Economic Affairs, Labour and Traffic of the Free State of Saxony

with around 160 enterprises employing almost 13,000 people and achieving a turnover of ap-

proximately two billion euro, Saxony is a major centre of the plastics industry in Central Germany and beyond. Both the number of employees and the sales figures in this sector, which consists mainly of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), have continued to rise over the past five years. Compared with the previous period, the-re has been an increase in the number of highly specia-lised SMEs. This positive development is closely tied

in with Saxony’s potentials in the field of science and technology. Saxony has an extensive network of research institutions which benefit the entire value chain in the plastics processing in-dustry. In conjunction with the chemical industry in Central Germany, Saxon research institutions are working on new processes, technologies and applications. The foundations for this are laid by university and non-university research institutes, such as the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology at TU Dresden, the Department of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology at TU Chemnitz and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden. There are also many branch specific industrial research institutions such as Kunststoffzentrum Leipzig gGmbH, IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH, Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. and others, which are able to support enterprises in the sector by providing high-quality solutions directly tailored to the needs of businesses, thus boosting their commercial success.

The Free State of Saxony is giving priority to modern and efficient industries. And it is not only in Saxony that modern, efficient industries include the chemical and plastics processing industry, a sector that is cross-sectional in character and therefore has a leverage effect. Progress and inno-vation in the plastics industry are enabling new solutions to be developed in many areas, from the automotive industry to mechanical engineering, in microelectronics and biotechnology, and in the energy and environmental engineering sectors.

The Chemicals / Plastics Cluster in Central Germany provides a framework for successful colla-boration between enterprises and between business and science. This Cluster Atlas gives a useful overview of the network as it exists today.

10 Vorwort

This illuminated advertising metres high has welcomed drivers on Berlin-Munich autobahn for many years. The chequered history of Central German chemistry has lead to establishing the German Museum of Chemistry in Merseburg. Settled on grounds of Merseburg University (FH), re-formed in 1992 from the former Technical University “Carl Schorlemmer”, a comprehensive compilation of exhibits, which impressively document the development of chemical techniques described on the right, has been collected.

from 1894 Germany’s major plants for chlorine alkali electrolysisBitterfeld A. Breuer, I. Stroof, W. Rathenau

1900 First electrothermic phosphor production in GermanyBitterfeld Gustav Plieminger

1909 First magnesium alloy „Elektron“Bitterfeld Theodor Plieminger

1917 Ammonia synthesis (second plant)Leuna Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, Alwin Mittasch

1923 First methanol synthesisLeuna Matthias Pier

1928 First commercial production of fatty alcoholRodleben Walter Schraub, Wilhelm Norman

1927 First coal hydrogenation Leuna Friedrich Bergius, Matthias Pier

1932 First fully synthetic mild detergentChemnitz Heinrich Bertsch

1934 First synthetic fibre (Piviacid)Wolfen F. Gajewski, E. Hubert, C. Schönburg

1936 First PVC production on industrial scaleBitterfeld F. Klatte, E. Zacharias

1938 First plastic resin ion exchanger ‘WOFATIT’Wolfen R. Grießbach

1936 First colour film, multi-layer film with chromogen develop-ment and diffusion resistant colour coupling

Wolfen W. Schneider, G. Wilmanns

1936 First industrial-scale synthesis of rubber in GermanyBuna-Schkopau U. Hoffmann, W. Reppe, E. Tschunkur, W. Bock

the most important processes of the chemical industry in Central Germanyfrom 1884 to 1938

11HIStorY

Central German chemistry early advanced by Good Location Factorsdevelopment progress after the German reunion leads to global importance

due to locational advantage, the chemical industry began establishing in Central Germany at about the turn of the 19th century. Its first phase of development occurred from 1880 to 1920. At that time,

he Bitterfeld/Wolfen region became a nucleus of Central Germany’s chemical industry. The ammonia plant in Merseburg (“Leuna-Werke”) was then established in the war years of 1916/1917.

Due to the political changes in 1989/90, most of the out-of-date processes were not able to go ahead with the market eco-nomy, which had dire consequences. Within the last six months of 1990, the turnover fell to 50 per cent, and reached its lowest level at 30 per cent in 1993. The cutback in jobs, however, did not go that quick, yet if only due to social reasons. Nevertheless, about 100,000 employees had lost their jobs by 1993. The bottom was reached after ten years. Only 17 per cent of the originally 180,000 people were still working in the chemical industry them. In 2005, the turnover of 1989 was approached again by a fifth of the original workforce. Investments of the order of several billions euro led to establishing up-to-date plants at the old sites. After this boost of development, the Central German chemistry is regarded as pioneering at restructuring its chemical sites world-wide today.

A second wave of setting up followed during the 1930s, when preparations for the Second World War had priority. In 1939, one in four employees in the German chemical industry had his workplace in Central Germany.

The end of World War II was accompanied by devastating de-struction through the Allies. 15 per cent of all plant assets were completely destroyed. Furthermore, the dismantling of plants through the former Soviet Union led to a further weakening of the remains of the chemical industries. Despite intensive post-war reconstruction work in most difficult conditions, the Central German chemical region remained far away from keeping its for-mer position, which had been highly respected worldwide before the war. Nevertheless, the economical potential of its basic inno-vations of the 1920s/30s secured its place in the global develop-ment up until the 1960s. Though, there were major shortcomings due to the division of Germany, especially in the field of highly refined products of aniline dye, pharmaceuticals as well as in the processing industries of synthetic rubber.

The lack of skilled workers was also a serious problem. Out of twelve Technical Universities within the borders of the German Reich in 1937 only two – Dresden and Freiberg – were situated in the former GDR. In addition, there was a loss of skilled workers due to emigration to the Federal Republic. For that reason, eight Technical Universities were established, during some years from 1952 onwards, including the “Technical University of Chemistry Leuna-Merseburg” in 1954. The transition from coal technology to petrochemical industries – different than originally planned in a state programme for the 1960s in 1958 – was missed, which turned out to be fateful.

By the ‘Chemistry provides bread, prosperity, beauty’ programme of 1958 the che-mical industry got enormous political clout in the German Democratic Republic. The so-called ‘chemistrialisa-tion of the national economy’ made the chemical industry gain a wide public acceptance until today.

1932 First fully synthetic mild detergentChemnitz Heinrich Bertsch

1934 First synthetic fibre (Piviacid)Wolfen F. Gajewski, E. Hubert, C. Schönburg

1936 First PVC production on industrial scaleBitterfeld F. Klatte, E. Zacharias

1938 First plastic resin ion exchanger ‘WOFATIT’Wolfen R. Grießbach

1936 First colour film, multi-layer film with chromogen develop-ment and diffusion resistant colour coupling

Wolfen W. Schneider, G. Wilmanns

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German reunification allowed far-reaching structural change record Values in Central German Chemical and Plastics Sector

Production of chemical goodsProduction of rubber and plastics commodity

Source: Statistics Agencies Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, ThuringiaCalculation: isw GmbH Note: Companies with 20+ employees

2011 and 2012 were the Central German chemical and plastics sector’s most successful years since its structural change. In

2011, not only the number of companies and employees but also of turnover as well as turnover per employee has been exceeding all amounts reached before. During the following year, howe-ver, they were slightly decreasing, yet in all of the three Central German federal states as well as in Brandenburg, chemistry and plastics processing are still among the most important and for-mative sectors of manufacturing industries. In Saxony-Anhalt, the chemical sector has been running past the food industry by sales, and therefore, has been climbing the top of all sectors of manufacturing industries. There, a total turnover of 8.3 billion euro today is more than twice as much compared to the amount ten years ago.

The large-scale chemical companies as e.g. “Dow” and “BASF” – both operating several locations in the region – “Domo”, “Caproleuna”, “Linde”, “Wacker”, “Lanxess”, “Bayer”,

“Solvay” and “Radici” are still substantially coining the Central Germany’s economic structure today. This development is based on a strong grounding, because the chemical and plastics proces-sing industry’s privatisation and reorientation starting after the German Reunification have consistently been following market forces. During this period and afterwards, politics was providing excellent conditions. Therefore, there were rehabilitating conta-minated sites, dismantling obsolete plants as well as financing the sites’ infrastructure. Politics was also providing investment grants and perks. Regarding Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg altogether, the chemical and plastics sector has been experiencing a sensational growth during the last ten years. By then, the number of companies in the chemical industry was raising from 226 to 288, those in the plastics processing sector from 44 to 520. The chemical sector’s turnover was al-most doubled from 7.7 to 14.4 billion euro, that of the Central German plastics sector increased from 4.2 billion to 8.1 billion

Number of companies turnover in 1.000 Euro

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2009

2006

2010

2007

2011

2008

2012

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2009

2006

2010

2007

2011

2008

2012

596 64

9

622 67

1

670 73

1

749

746

743

746 78

7

760

767 79

8

808

8 01

9 36

5

10 5

50 9

91

8 54

1 26

9

11 1

83 7

70

11 9

69 4

70

12 8

11 1

57

13 9

98 0

00

15 4

71 2

63

17 7

90 9

02

20 1

06 4

30

21 0

24 2

46

11 5

55 6

23

20 0

17 7

07

22 9

12 4

75

22 5

34 6

36

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euro. Both of the sectors have had a immense share in the posi-tive development of the Central Germany’s job market. In 2002, the number of employees was about 30,800 men and women. Ten years later, there were 40,100 employees, almost a quarter more. In the plastics processing industries, however, the increase of employment is even more significant over that period. There, the number of jobs was raising from 30,000 to 44,100.

Sale productivity could be increased as well. Therefore, the turnover per employee in chemical industries was raising from almost 251,000 euro in 2002 to 363,000 euro in 2011. In 2012, during the Euro crisis, however, it reached 359.000 euro. In the same period of time, the plastics processing industries’ amount per employee was rising from 139,700 euro to 184,800 euro in 2012. However, already in 2011, the mark of 190,000 euro was passed. In Saxony-Anhalt, the heartland of the Central German chemical industries, the turnover of 477,000 euro per employee in 2012 meant being even higher than the national average.

The New Laender’s geographical location is still turning out to be of great advantage. As more and more Central and Eastern

European nations join the EU, the pan-European economies are moving further eastwards. Therefrom, chemical industries as well as plastics sectors will not only benefit, but will also accept gre-ater responsibilities.

Therefore, the EU project “ChemLog Tracking&Tracing“ led by Saxony-Anhalt is going to establish an integrative system for tracking the intermodal transport of hazardous materials bet-ween Central and Eastern Europe. Within the European Chemical Regions Network “ECNR” the federal state is also taking a lea-ding position. The sector’s innovation potential is proven by the guiding role the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics Central Germany” is occupying during the development “Hydrogen Power Storage & Solutions East Germany (Hypos)” project as well. Therefore, economic solutions for using wind and solar power to produce hydrogen via electrolysis on an industrial scale shall be develo-ped until 2020.

Central Germany is expected to establish a truly “green” che-mistry, which might initiate the sector’s second revolution like it happened in the 1990s with its concept of chemical parks.

turnover per employee in EuroNumber of employees

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1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2009

2006

2010

2007

2011

2008

2012

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2009

2006

2010

2007

2011

2008

2012

54 6

64

58 9

66

55 8

29

60 8

76

61 1

38

65 4

85

67 5

31

68 8

62

70 9

58

73 2

10

75 8

87 83 7

03

84 1

10

76 3

62

81 0

22

171

294

183

820 23

0 80

8

238

471

250

886

117

384

119

153

126

085

131

415

139

732

145

358

150

054

156

967

175

081

173

964

176

426

248

024

269

125

297

327

331

408

357

866

348

273

321

871 35

9 10

4

363

300

359

156

184

759

190

411

180

729

166

294

14 CHALLENGES ANd oPPortUNItIES

Cluster Chemistry / Plastics strengthens cooperation and reduces deficienciesChallenges and opportunities in Central Germany

The “Cluster Chemistry / Plastics Central Germany” is joining about half of the 800 chemi-cal and plastics companies in Saxony, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg. This platform of transregional cooperation, which was initiated by economy and finally founded in 2003, is strengthening the branch’s performance. While during the first years after its foundation, the cluster focussed on overcoming the lack of industry research caused by historical circumstances, it shall today vitalize research efforts by joining the rather small-scale industry with established research facilities. For that reason, outstanding projects

are initiated. Some of the former tasks of the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics” were building up networks as well as promoting the “Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Center (PAZ) for Polymer Synthe-

sis and Polymer Processing” when siting at “Schkopau ValuePark®”. Furthermore, the cluster is supporting the Central German project “From Mining to Refining – Innovative Process Technology” (“ibi”) and it is also one of the initiators of the “Hydrogen Power Storage & Solutions East Germany (Hypos)” project. In 2013, the chemical sector was especially suc-cessful in the competition for the IQ innovation prize for Central Germany. The „Cluster Chemistry / Plastics Central Germany“ is coordinated by the „isw GmbH“ in Halle (Saale).

t he era in which the chemical and plastics processing industry mainly has been living from oil and gas, is coming to an end.

That is why the branch will be facing enormous challenges in the future. Then, alternatives to the energy sources restricted to oil and gas will have to be found, although due to the fracking tech-nique a medium-term easing of the market could be reached first. This again requires a re-orientation of the cluster (see page 15).

A special chance for the Central German chemical and plastics processing industry lies in the further development of supply chains, which might be achieved through key cooperation with Central Germany’s clusters as “Automotive”, “Solarvalley”, “Bio- Economy” as well as with aircraft industries. Thereby, Central German chemistry will benefit from neighbouring brown coal deposits as well as from the biomass available for supply. There-fore, it has to be aimed at sustainably and profitably using these local raw materials in plants.The process development for using biomass as chemical raw ma-terial is going to be worked out at the “Fraunhofer Center for

Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP” in Leuna. Its commit-ment has been pushed since the Leuna cluster “BioEconomy” was winning the Federal Government’s “Leading-Edge Cluster Competition” in January 2012. The cluster’s key targets are the integrated material and energetic use of non-food biomass in order to produce materials, chemicals and energy sources as well as to launch items out of innovative substances.

Neighbouring opencast mining and brown coal deposits provi-de the Central German chemical parks with valuable bituminous coal. The Innovative Regional Growth Core “From Mining to Re-fining – Innovative Process Technology” (“ibi”) pursues a vision: to establish a chemical park in Central Germany especially for an industrial material use of the regional brown coal. Therefore, a complex supply chain with brown coal as chemical feedstock shall be provided. The Land government of Saxony-Anhalt is supporting this project, amongst others by making it part of its innovation strategy.

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How chemical companies can meet their challenges in detail, the “RecoPhos Consult GmbH” from Gardelegen is showing. For its innovative technology of phosphorus recovery during the thermal utilization of sewage sludge, it was awarded the IQ inno-vation prize for Central Germany 2013, and at the same time, the “Prof. Nelles Prize” of the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics”.

Moreover, the roadmap process of identifying the companies’ anticipated demand for innovation is going to be continued by the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics Central Germany”. After the is-sues of injecting moulding and film extrusion have already been focussed on, the third stage is will be standing under the banner of compounding and recycling.

During all these activities and cooperation, it will be crucial to involve both university and private research facilities in Central Germany in order to organize some rather application-oriented R&D activities.

Features of the Cluster Chemistry / Plastics Central Germany

Pioneer global structural change of chemical industry,

Cross-sectional with chemical and plastics processing industry,

Participation of employers’ associations VCI and GKV as well as IG BCE*,

Cross-regional with companies and networks from the federal states of Saxony,

Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg,

Integration of networks of chemical and plastics processing industry,

Strategy dialogs include Land Governments,

Internationally positioned by active collaboration with the ECrN*.VCI: Association of the Chemical Industry

GKV: General Association of the Plastics Processing Industry IG BCE: Industrial Union of Mining, Chemistry, Energy

ECrN: European Chemical Regions Network

The intended energy turnaround is not only a challenge but also offering opportunities. Chemical industries might considerably contribute to its success. Therefore, the “Hypos - Hydrogen Po-wer Storage & Solutions East Germany“ project initiated by the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics Central Germany” is not only meant to start a revolution in hydrogen industry but shall also provide a sustainable “green” chemistry in the Central German Chemical Triangle. Up to 2020, economic solutions for using wind and solar power to produce hydrogen via electrolysis on an industrial scale should have been out.

The chemical parks are going to distinguish themselves as so-called “knowledge sites” with an innovative site network of-fering some specialized facilities for industrial research. Due to adding these pilot plants and forthcoming large-scale plants to the feedstock integration of the Central German chemical parks, a relevant locational advantage will be achieved. Furthermore, some local raw materials available for supply ensure the initial as well as the logistical costs being relatively low. All these facts are justifying further long-term, sustainable investments.

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“Cluster Chemistry / Plastics” Facing a re-orientation

Cluster spokesman

Dr. Christoph MühlhausManaging director (ret.)Dow Olefinverbund GmbH

Cluster management

Dr. habil. Gunthard BratzkeManaging directorisw Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Beratung und Dienstleistung mbH

Cluster spokesman Plastics

Dr. habil. Reinhard Proske Past President Gesamtverband Kunst-stoffverarbeitende Industrie e. V.

CHALLENGES ANd CHANCES

Cluster spokesman Feedstocks

Andreas DietrichTonnage Account Manager /Head of On-Site ManagementLINDE AG, Gases Division

Cluster spokesman Chemistry

Kathrin SommerDepartment for Technology & EnvironmentVerband der Chemischen Industrie e. V.,Landesverband Nordost

t en years after its foundation, the “Cluster Chemistry / Plastics Central Germany” is facing a re-orientation. While looking

into the chemical industry’s future, raw materials turn out to be of central meaning. For a sustainable maintenance of industry, alternatives are asked for.

Sustainable raw materials for a sustainable chemistry need to be found in addition to fossil raw materials. The chemical industry’s feedstock supplies are excessively based on oil and gas, which has been a competitive advantage over two decades, yet is today presenting an increasing threat for future develop-ments. The costs of raw material and energy in Central Germany are high, consequently granting only very poor margins, which in return threatens the Basic Chemicals. Therefore, it is necessary to join the innovative forces of producing companies, research facilities and plant manufacturing in order to reach both to sup-port and to further develop existing supply chains. The oppor-tunities of coal, biomass and green hydrogen as alternative and additional chemical raw materials should be used.

The new cluster “Sustainable Raw Materials for Chemical Indus-try” is meant to play such a joining role. Next to some conven-tional subjects, the cluster has to turn towards issues of biomass, the hydrogen industry beyond the “Hypos” project, the material use of coal, recycling as well as phosphorous recovery. Linking the waste management industry and plastics recycling with more valuable fields of application will play an essential role. The re-cycling of oil and plastics will be an additional raw material source.

Within the “Regional Innovation Strategy” of Saxony-Anhalt, securing raw materials is the major duty in the lead market “Che-mistry / Bio-economy”, which can only be achieved by the com-mon leadership of a cross-sector as well as transregional cluster. Therefore, the comprehensive approach of “Sustainable Raw Ma-terials for Chemical Industry” should be consistently pursued by the new cluster. In this way, during the creation of value, signi-ficant elements of the overall context can further be developed and a comprehensive approach can also be focussed on.

“Sustainable raw Materials for Chemical Industry” – a major duty

Cluster spokesman Science

Prof. Dr. Ralf B. WehrspohnDirectorFraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials Halle

POLyMER ELECTRONICS p. 18 PHOTOVOLTAIC INDUSTRy p. 19

AVIATION INDUSTRy p. 20 TECHNICAL TEXTILES p. 21

MEDICAL SCIENCE p. 22 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRy p. 23 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRy p. 24

OPTICS p. 25

KEY tECHNoLoGY APPLICAtIoNS

18 PoLYMEr ELECtroNICS

Injection-molded circuit carriers get more and more important

w e cannot go without technology in our daily lives anymore,facing it as entertainment electronics, information tech-

nology and telecommunications. The relatively new issue of “e-mobility” is also becoming more and more significant. We are neither able and nor do we want to miss all those electronic helpers. We rather always ask for further new features and more control. Our whole life is more and more characterized by the seeming megatrend of its entire electronization. Consequently, it is necessary to design all these electronics and sensor technology with even higher functionality in a very space-saving way.

Using so-called MIDs (Molded Interconnect Devices) could be an answer. These injection-molded circuit carriers are increasingly important in devices of microsystems and mechatronics.

A cost-effective series production of such miniature MIDs can be realized by using the formicaPlast®, a micro-injection machine that has been developed at the “Plastics Centre” (KuZ) in Leipzig.

By using their 2K-MID-technique (2-phase piston injection tech-nique), you can benefit from much freedom of the components’ design as well as very short process chain due to the metalliza-tion directly after molding.

Together with the “Institute for Micro Assembly Technology” of the “Hahn Schickard Society” (HSG-IMAT) a demonstration model has been generated by 2K-MID-technique. It t has a three-dimensional circuit structure made of selectively metallizable plastics. Furthermore, this project has already verified the com-ponents’ reliability.

The “Plastics Centre” in Leipzig is an independent, industry-rela-ted centre for research, technology, testing and further education with 60 experienced employees.

They work in the fields of plastics processing, construction, tool and connection technology as well as testing systems. The “KuZ” is a centre with fine tradition as its foundation goes back to the 1960’s.

MIds Making Everyday Life Easier

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Lightweight solar panel pro safety and aesthetics on the roofForm Follows Function

How solar panels can perform not only functionally but also aesthetically perfectly on the roof, is showcased by the first innovation of a lightweight solar panel ready to go into production. Its development has been supported by the

“Fraunhofer” innovation cluster “SolarPlastics”: In order to suit the architecturally demanding needs of house owners, “Fraunhofer CSP” scientist Dr. Stefan Schulze on one hand side and Heiko Schulze from “GCL Glass and Carbon

Laminations” on the other have developed a lightweight solar panel that is integrated in the roof. This way a uniform surface covered by built-in elements for channel flow and brackets could be designed. Therefore

customary solar panels with their conventional construction and mounting system are replaced by an innovative and light roof carrier system. This new system is not in contrast to the roof cladding but

harmoniously integrated in the roof structure itself. Due to its innovative overlapping and packaging concept, it makes the mounting elements almost disappear. Its schematic is simple: the solar panel

is applied to a bracket of fibre-reinforced plastics locked on every side and simultaneously overlapped by adjacent panels. This provides smooth aesthetics with individual colour

design and also complete waterproofing. Water that nonetheless ingresses the overlap is led to the eaves by a sufficiently dimensioned channel flow. Owing to this basic

principle patented, neither any additional elements nor further materials are re-quired. The young businessmen have already developed a demonstrator, and

the “Fraunhofer CSP Enterprise Investment Scheme” is going to realize the product’s commercial launch.

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Fraunhofer PYCO in Teltow searching for lightweight in aviation industryAircraft lightweight construction powered by chemistry

t he aim of all development in aircraft design is weight re-duction. Then, more passengers and more goods could be

transported with the same amount of fuel. To achieve that goal setting, it is necessary to use additional carbon fibre-reinforced plastics. Sandwich-structures, vault-structures and foams are needed for further weight reduction as well. All these materi-als are in the focus of development of the “Fraunhofer Research Institution for Polymeric Materials and Composites PYCO”. The scientists at PYCO have developed innovative lightweight core materials based on cyanate ester resin foams, which could re-place, e. g., the honeycomb.

Therefore, obtaining foams with low densities, good thermal stability as well as a high flame resistance has been essential on the desired agenda. The new materials should also keep a stable structure even after direct flame impact. Such a combination of characteristics was hard to find in state-of-the-art foam materi-als before.

“Fraunhofer PYCO” succeeded in providing these foams as reactive foams, which makes it possible to implement the foa-ming itself into the production process. Furthermore, it allows to design nearly any shape in just one step.

NEP honeycomb: Lightweight material for cabins

acoustic cushion backside connectiondrapablecost-effectivedrainableintegratable cables

With ecological efficiency and environmental protection in mind, one further goal of this project was the full recyclability and high reparability of all materials used. Common foam sy-stems based on other thermosets do not offer these features.

A variety of systems with different pore sizes and densities have been developed. The composition can be adjusted to fit dif-ferent specifications. Densities from 30 kg/m³ to 300 kg/m³ are now possible. Mechanical stability varies with density. All sy-stems show good thermal stability, flame resistance and are fully repairable and recyclable.

These activities are done in cooperation with aviation compa-nies, such as “Diehl Aircabin”, and are additionally funded by the “German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)”.

Illustration according to PyCO

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Innovative, fire-proof material is awarded the “Prof.-Johannes-Nelles Prize” 2012Fire Protection thanks to “AP Fibre”

AP Fibre” is an innovative plastic with characteristics making it particularly suitable for varied applications against extreme heat. Consequently the liner can be used in fireproof clothing,

fire protection as well as in heat and sound insulation. A team from the East Thuringian Material Testing Company for Textile and Plastics (OMPG) in Rudolstadt, however, has succeeded in combi-ning the assets of thermoplastics and resins. Due to its hardness and heat stability, aminoplast has already been applied in the furniture and paint industry for a long time. This plastic is characterized by stable cross-connections between long molecular chains. However, once cured, the plastic is not moldable anymore. Thermoplastics in contrast can be formed by heat, which in turn is inappropriate in products that are meant for heat insulation.

The production process of the new melamine resin is stopped before any cross-connections have been formed. During a special method patented the liner can be fused into an extruder. Under high pressure and heat it is pressed into the shape needed. Afterwards a gaseous catalyzer is added to the melamine resin. A controlled temperature will make sure that the process of duroplastic shaping continues, which results in a melamine liner that neither catches fire nor it is meltable under the impact of heat. It is chemically stable, resistant against UV light and has excellent insulating pro-perties. This brilliant thermal and acoustic insulation is caused by the tenuous fibres of melamine, which are ten times thinner than human hair.

In 2012, the OMPG was awarded the “Prof.-Jo-hannes-Nelles Prize” of the “Cluster Chemistry / Pla-stics Central Germany”. The Rudolstadt team has as-ked more then 100 users from the industry to test the technology on the one hand and the new product on the other. Almost invariably positive feedback encouraged the “Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research” subcompany to found the “AP Fibre GmbH” spin-off and to introduce the fire-proof material onto the market. On these grounds the in-dustrial productions of the melamine liner is going to start in 2014. The innovative melamine liner is fire-proof and does not melt.

Source: AP Fibre GmbH

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Innovative applications for root canal treatmentPlastics in dentistry

root canal therapy of molars is required when the pulp of a tooth is either dead or is threatened because of decay, which also means that it is either severely or chronically sore. If using tradi-

tional root posts, a fracture of the residual tooth is very likely. Moreover, a lasting abacterial seal of the root canal cannot be realized anymore. In current practice, the traditional inert materials are condensed in the root canal in order to improve their tightness. But doing so results in tensile strain in the tooth root, which can cause root fracture over time.

Applying specifically designed plastics shall reduce these problems. In the context of a cooperation, which is promoted by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, innovative root canal treatment has been worked out in Brandenburg and Berlin since 2009. According to the transfer office of Brandenburg’s chemical and plastics industry, a Berlin dental surgery is testing and de-veloping the new method and its application in dental practical experience. It is also trying out its components in cooperation with the “Technical University of Applied Sciences” in Wildau.

During a first test series, High Density Polyethylen has been used as plastics for leadoff sprues that were made in a micro-injection mol-ding machine. Due to the need of high mechanical resistance and stability of many medical products, polycarbonate has been used in a second test series. This is some highly crystalline thermoplastic synthetics characterized by high stability and stiffness as well as good sliding properties and wear resistance with current low moi-sture absorption.

The cooperation project aims at establishing an innovative applica-tion in root canal therapy. Therefore, the university is developing tools for fabricating first medical trail product samples. Within the project, the “Toolmaking and Plastics Engineering SWK” company from Klein Klessow in the Spreewald develops a jig for the pro-duction of root post prototypes. “Marquardt”, a firm for adhesive sealing and coating materials in Potsdam, also cooperates in mate-rial testing.

Left: New root post made of polycarbonateRight: Common dental tool for root canal treatmentSource: Works photograph TH Wildau

MEdICAL SCIENCE

Vorwort 23AUtoMotIVE INdUStrY

Super rubber for tires Is on the rollStyron in Schkopau delivers key material for premium products

rubber from Schkopau has a long history – and has a bright future. “We have invested al-

most 90 million Euros up to date, and have expanded our capacities by 50,000 tons a year”, says Ralf Irmert, Site Manager of Styron Deutschland GmbH, which is a part of the US company Styron.

The site is one of the biggest producers in Europe for the most important raw material used in high-performance tires and supplies all leading global companies. “Speciality manufacturers of

high-quality products are our customers and they use around 1 kilo of our product in each tire”, says Irmert.

The former brand BUNA™ is based on a patent going back to 1927. Since the late 1930’s it has become a synonym for the whole manufacturing site in Schkopau. Its name refers to the initials of the primary

products, butadiene and sodium (Natrium). After the end of the GDR era, Dow Chemical acquired the Sch-kopau site, they modernized the plants for rubber production and also retained the existing Research & Development department. At the end of the last decade, the US American company decided to focus on specialty chemicals and looked for investors for their world-scale plants in Central Germany. It was a difficult time, but ended when a financial investor was found. Although BUNA™ rubber is our history it is very different from the products that we have developed today”, says Irmert.

Experts call the new “super rubber”, produced by Styron in Schkopau, Solution Styrene Bu-tadiene Rubber (SSBR). “These are highly complex, long-chain molecules, which allows us to design features according to our customers needs”, explains the site manager. Six different basic grades are produced in the plant offering optimal running qualities as well as ideal friction properties for any specific tire type. Compared to tires produced by the

1st generation SSBR grades, the rolling resistance indicator can be reduced by up to 35% with the 2nd generation SSBR grades. Reduction in rolling resistance leads to lower fuel consump-tion. Furthermore an excellent wet grip and abrasion resistance in the tread is achieved. Styron was awarded with the “IQ Innova-tion Prize Central Germany” for its pro-ducts in 2011.

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t he black and neon yellow car seat that has been constructed lightweight by “IFA Rotorion-Holding GmbH” in Haldensleben (Saxony-Anhalt) is a world record holder. Weighing only 13.8

kilos, it is not only an absolutely super lightweight, but also the most lightweight one worldwide. “Due to fibre-reinforced plastics in its main parts, the seat is only half the weight of any other car seat available”, Oliver Schimpf, Manager of the on-site research facility for lightweight components “IFA-Technologies GmbH”, says.

The innovative seat’s development is based on the “RCS – reduced complexity seating“ study of a lightweight car seat designed by the “IFA-Technologies GmbH”, which has already been awarded several times. The seat is made of fibre-reinforced plastics as they are used in truck systems and produced in cooperation with the leading seat producer “Grammer AG”.

Oliver Schimpf is highly satisfied with the design study’s further course of development. “The lightweight seat is a huge innovation in automotive engineering. It will definitely assert itself on the market”, the head of the automotive supplier’s think tank is convinced.

The fact that the mass-lightweight seat made of fibre-reinforced plastics is applied in truck engineering, is only a logical consequence, according to Schimpf. “The necessity of further efforts

IFA rotorion-Holding surprises experts with lightweight construction

the world’s most Lightweight truck Seat – Made by “IFA-technologies” in Haldensleben

at reducing emissions does specifically apply to trucks. With re-gard to environment protection, lightweight construction offers a much greater potential for reducing fuel consumption, and in this way damaging CO2 emissions, than the field of engine develop-ment. Especially truck seats offer enormous potential for weight optimization through the use of fibre-reinforced plastics”, Schimpf explains.

The development of this high-tech product has been conducted by the “IFA-Technologies Development Center” in Braunschweig. The production of this visionary seat, however, which, for the mo-ment, is meant for truck co-drivers, is planned at Haldensleben site.

The one-piece seat chassis can be called the construction’s spine. Due to its hybrid structures of 20 per cent carbon fibre and 80 per cent renewable flax fibres, even its production is environment-sparing.

The “IFA-Group” is also producing drive shafts and structu-ral components made of fibre-reinforced plastics for international automotive industries. Furthermore, it is operating a factory in Charleston (USA), and another one in Shanghai is coming soon.

With only 13,8 kg this truck seat is the lightest in the world

AUtoMotIVE INdUStrY

25oPtICS

“Jenoptik Polymer Systems” develops and produces novel lensesInnovative Plastic Lenses for New types of LEds

Lenses for energy-efficient light-emitting diodes illuminations are a rather big challenge for this kind of applying some polymer material.

In optical systems that are operating by reflection, the coating system and thereby especially the ply adhesion between the reflector substrate made of plastics and the mostly metallic reflector layers, especially over a long period at a high temperature range and over climatic changes, are a challenge. At transmission applications, however, it also depends on good transparency, resistance to yellowing and ageing of the plastics, and that over a period of 20 to 30 years.

At transmission applications, there are only a few plastics at all mee-ting the functional demands, especially when the requirements for short-time thermal resistance of the polymer has to be above 260°C due to spe-cial production processes of the system.

Therefore, the “JENOPTIK Polymer Sytems GmbH” in Triptis (Thurin-gia), belonging to the “Jenoptik Group’s Optical Systems Division”, deci-ded for optical silicones in this special field of application. Apart from the demanded thermal resistance, these materials feature excellent transpar-ency and also ultraviolet resistance. That is why very small aspheric lenses with a component weight of only 25 mg needed to be developed, which could be casted directly on the bonded LED of the referring module.

The production of these very small specific lenses required a correspondi-ng process development by using an appropriate micro injection moulding machine. This job was done in close cooperation with the “Plastics Centre” (KuZ) in Leipzig. Its experience in micro injection moulding as well as its process equipment available could be used.

The production of these very small specific lenses required a corresponding process development by using an appropriate micro injection moulding machine. This job had be done by close cooperation with the Plastics centre in Leipzig (KuZ). Their experience in micro injection moulding as well as their available process equipment could be used.

Photo: JENOPTIK Polymer Systems GmbH

26 Source: CeChemNet / isw GmbHFEEdStoCK INtEGrAtIoN

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t he chemical parks in Central Germany cover an area of about 5.500 ha. By a 430 km pipeline starting from Baltic harbour Rostock the chemical

sites of Böhlen and Schkopau are connected to global material and commodity flows. All this offers excellent conditions for new investments.

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“CeChemNet” sites continue growingChemical Parks – a Concept for Global Chemistry

t he concept of chemical parks is an outstanding contribution of Saxony-Anhalt to the global chemistry’s development. Established during the years after the fall of the Berlin

Wall, chemical parks have become both an icon and pioneer during the global process of the chemical industry’s re-organisation.” With these words, Reiner Haseloff (CDU), the Mi-nister President of Saxony-Anhalt, was acknowledging the formation and development of chemical parks when celebrating the 10th anniversary of the “Central European Chemical Network (CeChemNet)” in June 2012.

Quite recently, considerable investments have been made at all sites. For ex-ample, the Japanese “Hi-Bis GmbH” in Bitterfeld, for example, has invested al-most 50 million euro in order to double its production capacity from 5,000 to 10,000 tons a year. The “SUC Sächsische Umwelt Consulting” has put a physi-co-chemical treatment facility into operation. The “Tricat GmbH Catalyst Ser-vice” also has a new plant commissioned to expand its production capacity.

Despite the crisis of the German solar industry, the “Dow Olefin-verbund GmbH” has put up a plant for innovative special foils for solar panels at Schkopau site.

The “Styron Deutschland GmbH” founded in 2010 is operating several plants for producing synthetic rubber and (expandable) polystyrene at “Schkopau ValuePark®”. Moreover, the sub-com-pany of the US American “Styron” has been investing 91 million Euro.

At the chemical site Leuna, a multipurpose fermentation plant for the continuous production of bio-based chemicals – the very first one Europe-wide - was inaugurated in summer 2013. The-reby, “ThyssenKrupp” is expanding its R&D activities in the field of bio-technologically produced chemicals based on renewable resources with an investment volume of about 20 million euro. The Finnish “FP-Pigments” company is also going to double its production capacity by expanding its plants.

The “BASF” site in Schwarzheide has also been growing, sin-ce two further companies are located there. The “relog plastics GmbH” is recycling the plastic industrial waste of industry, which then is recirculated in the form of regranulates. The “Fraunho-fer IAP” is organizing an “Application Centre for biopolymers”, which is also part of the “Innovation Centre Bioplastics Lausitz”.

At “Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park”, the US Ameri-can chemical company “Puralube” is expanding its plants for

regeneration waste oils. Therefore, a third refinery shall be constructed. There, about 42 million euro shall be invested until 2014. In the proximity, the “Radici Chimica Deutschland GmbH”, which is a subcompany of the Italian “RadiciGroup”, has already invested about 200 million euro since 1990 in the Chemical and Industry Park.

All these investment decisions in favour of Schkopau, Leuna, Zeitz and also Schwarzheide prove the advantages of the che-mical park concept: The chemical park operators are providing businesses with an attractive economic basis at their sites. Beside fully developed properties, there an infrastructure concentrati-on to chemical production is also to be found. Moreover, the investors are offered a comprehensive range of services, which include a professional business location and authority manage-ment, fire prevention and object security, waste management, site logistics and public relations.

The large-scale parks in the Central German Chemical Tri-angle do not only have some complex feedstock integration at their disposal, but are also pursuing the idea of promoting the chemical parks as “Knowledge Sites”, which might be their future research profile. Since its foundation eleven years ago, the net-work is coordinated by the „isw GmbH“ in Halle (Saale)

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demographic change requires some special recruitment of young talentsSecuring Skilled Personnel – A Challenge for the Chemical and Plastics Sector

t he chemical, as well as the plastics processing industries in Central Germany are confronted with a severe lack of skilled

personnel. Employees being well trained and highly qualified as well as productive and fitting for service have proved to be a recipe for the on-going, positive economic development in re-cent years. Today, this basis is threatened, when due to the de-mographic change and increasing mobility not only the whole personnel of a shop floor is retiring, but also skilled junior staff is alarmingly scarce.

The chemical, as well as the plastics processing industries in Central Germany are reacting to this challenge. Therefore, a whole range of measurements, initiatives and support pro-grammes exists intended to help secure the sector’s talents. The projects are about early vocational guidance, targeted reinforce-ment of training and further education and human resources

development. The following examples are only a few of the ab-undance of efforts made in Central Germany.

After a period of concise scheduling, the “Schkopau Ausbil-dungsverbund Kunststofftechnik (SAVK)” - a training alliance for plastics engineering - finally started in September 2013. This project is embracing not only the training in plastics engineering but also the alliance’s network activities. There, process mecha-nics for plastics and rubber technology are trained. The “SAVK” is meant to enable especially small and medium-scale companies to educate highly qualified staff, because those businesses are often lacking some requirements for own training programmes. Going hand in hand with this training in plastics engineering, a network of regional players for training and further education shall be established. Therefore, the Federal Employment Agency, the Chamber of Industry and Trade, local authorities, politics, universities as well as the private research sector and, last but not least, the firms providing such training are inquired.

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In competition for junior workforce, companies are supported by the sector’s industrial union “Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE)”. Therefore, its qualification agency “Qualifizierungförder-werk Chemie GmbH (QFC)” came up with the project “Nur Mut - Chance für Ausbildung“ addressing young adults who still had not found any apprenticeship position due to only a few shortcomings. This project was initiated by the “IG BCE” toge-ther with the “Nordostchemie Emplo-yers Association”. The “BAL Aus- und Weiterbildung GmbH Leuna”, the training alliance “Olefinpartner”, Schkopau ValuePark® as well as the training centres in Wolfen-Bitterfeld and Wittenberg served as partners.

Both the “Nordostchemie Emplo-yers Association” and the sector “North-East” of the “Association of the Chemical Industry e. V. (VCI)” are guiding a whole career from its beginning up until being completely as well as success-fully finished. Therefore, the campaign “Pro Chemieunterricht“ is addressing not only schools but also daycare centres and private education facilities as e.g. laboratories for students. The associ-ations match their members’ donations for those participating. From the start in 2004 up to now, more than 60 companies have committed themselves to a more attractive and experimental chemistry teaching at more than 130 educational facilities.

The “Kunststoff-Verbund Brandenburg Berlin e. V.” is moti-vating and rewarding young talents by material incentive. Since 2011, this industry association has been awarding the plastics industry’s best trainees. Thereby, they are attaching importance to top-class performance in the professional qualification of me-chanics for plastics and rubber technology, so the association is reasoning its commitment. The three best trainees are receiving cash prizes by a total amount of 500 euro.

Many activities are addressing apprenticeships and courses of study. Therefore, the University of Applied Sciences “Hochschule Merseburg (FH)” has been offering a new bachelor’s degree in Plastics Engineering since its winter term 2010. At the “Ilme-nau University of Technology”, a Foundation Chair for Plastics Engineering was established in spring 2009. The Chambers of

Industry and Trade Halle-Dessau and Magdeburg are keeping up a Scholarship Programme, which intends to join promising stu-dents with companies awarding a scholarship.

In the same manner, further education is being forced. For many years, the “Plastics Centre” (“KuZ”) in Leipzig has been assisting plastics in-dustries as a partner for further training, amongst others by making skilled workers familiar with innovative technologies. At the “Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Center (PAZ)” in Schkopau, schoolings and advanced training courses with both a theoretical and a practical approach are scheduled and conducted. The “BAL Bildungsakade-mie Leuna” can be seen as another such model offering a wide choice of voca-tional training and retraining as well as

further education for jobs in chemical industries. Furthermore, the “Kunststoff-Zentrum SKZ” in Halle (Saale) is reputed to be a mecca for Mating, Adhering and Processing of plastics. Every year, thousands of plastics processors go to Halle in order to become qualified in these fields.

In the context of advanced education courses for teachers of-fered by the sector “North-East” of the “Association of the Che-mical Industry e. V. (VCI)”, not only chemistry teachers for secon-dary education but also pre-school and primary school teachers as well as student teachers in natural sciences are qualified. Fur-thermore, it offers the “Chemkids” Scholar Competition, in which already 4th grade pupils are invited to participate.

The “Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences” has been adopting a similar course. There, teachers are instructed to act as spokesmen and -women for fibre-reinforced composites. The plastics issue, which is usually going far too short in regular les-sons, shall be looked at during those training events for teachers. The integrated degree programme “Machine Engineering /Composite Technologies” that was established in Magdeburg in 2011, is absolutely unique Germany-wide. After completing stu-dies as well as an apprenticeship related to practice, students do not only holding the degree „Bachelor of Engineering“ through their scientific studies, but are also becoming mechanics for pla-stics and rubber technology.

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t he European Chemical Regions Network “ECRN” was founded in 2003. There, 19 chemical regions from Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands and

Great Britain are cooperating - in fact, with some significant participation of Saxony-Anhalt. The network’s aims lie in improving the European chemical regions’ competiveness, in exchanging experience, in initiating cooperation as well as in representing its interests towards the European Commission. At present, Hartmut Möllring, Minister for Science and Economic Affairs in Saxony-Anhalt, is functioning as the President of the “ECRN”.

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19 regions constitute a strategic industry platformEuropean Chemical regions Network “ECrN” is Bundling Various Interests

A chemical regions’ European congress held once a year is a platform intended to incessantly discuss common challenges and opportunities with representatives from politics, economy and its associations as well as from administration and science together. Due to the fact that they are representing institutional positions towards the European Commission, the network has also made its name as a lobbyist for these European chemical regions and is even involved in some of the European Commission’s Working Groups.

Among other issues, the “ECRN” is discussing Europe’s future industrial policy. Furthermore, urgent questions of the energy as well as the climate policy affecting the chemical industry have been considered. The “ECRN” has also presented own initiatives to strengthen chemical logistics in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, the EU project “ChemLog Tracking&Tracing“ shall esta-blish an integrative system for tracking the intermodal transport of hazardous materials between Central and Eastern Europe.

During the last years, the “ECRN” has agreed upon several com-mon position papers dealing with the European Chemicals Policy, emission trading and climate protection as well as innovation, energy policy, regional development and research policies, so that they have finally brought it to the decision makers’ attenti-on. The “ECRN” is the very first regional network invited by the European Commission to participate in a “High Level Group” for strategic discussions of major European policy areas.

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Project for a pan-Europe, standardised system for a hazardous materials transportation

tracking & tracing of dangerous Goods

Anytime, transports with dangerous goods are wheeling between Western and Eastern Europe. It is especially the intermodal transport of containers and tank

wagons by rail that demands specific information, because it is usually not accom-panied. At present, there is a multitude of uncoordinated national and regional as well as operational tracking systems. The EU project “ChemLog Tracking&Tracing“ led by Saxony-Anhalt is going to establish an integrative system for tracking the intermodal transport of hazardous materials between Central and Eastern Europe. The project running from 2012 until 2014 will strengthen Central Germany’s role as a logistic hub and European door to Eastern Europe, as Wolfgang Schnabel, the former head of logistics at “Dow Olefinverbund GmbH” says. He constitutes excel-lent conditions in Saxony-Anhalt for the European undertaking’s success. For this purpose, a consortium of industrial associations, regions, research facilities as well as public administration from Germany, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia has got together.

A transport volume of 50 to 55 million tons of chemical goods handled in Saxony-Anhalt is expected in the next years. While chemical industry in Western Europe is highly integrated and well networked, in Eastern Europe, however, more than 90 per cent of the chemical goods and also hazardous materials are transported by road. For that reason as much traffic as possible has to be shifted to rail.

In order to establish such an integrative tracking system for hazardous materials transportation, experts in logistics are relying on a satellite-based, cross-border solution.

A special opportunity is given through the “Gallileo” test field of the “Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF” in Magdeburg, which is the only one in Germany that is occupied with safety and logistics. The “ChemLog Tracking&Tracing“ project is completely outstanding Europe-wide. The proper pro-ject work is finally coordinated by isw in Halle (Saale).

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Innovation to solve global challengesAlliance of Chemistry willing to Promote Sustainable development

C hemical industry wants to establish sustainabilty as one of its branch’s general principle. Human health care and envi-

ronment protection as well as agreeable and committed working conditions are intended to become its basic business practices.In future, this commitment shall be realized with bundled po-wers. For that reason, the “Association of the German Chemical Industry” (VCI), the “Industrial Mining, Chemistry, Energy Uni-on” (IG BCE) and the “Employers‘ Federation for the Chemical Industry” (BAVC) have formed a unique alliance, namely the “Initiative for Sustainability in Chemistry”.During a workshop in Kassel in March 2012, a common under-standing of sustainability was worked out. About 50 representa-tives from chemical businesses, organisations and trade unions discussed the chemical sector’s status concerning sustainability and agreed on promoting and actively spurring its development.

All these alliance parties together are entirely conscious of the responsibility for their branch and society. This is represented e. g. by the “Social Partnership Chemistry” and the global “Re-sponsible Care” initiative. They stand for the chemical industry’s

ambition to permanently advance corporations in the field of environment, safety and health, and also to regularly publish this progress. Through “Responsible Care”, the chemical industry is willing to contribute to solving those global problems, which are under its own authority and influence.

Thus, the chemical industry’s innovations have a big share in meeting global challenges. At the same time, the partners are conscious of the various tasks still lying ahead. Therefore sustai-nable development is not only regarded as a responsibility for future generations but also as a chance for a future strategy of the chemical industry, which combines economic success with social justice and ecological compatibility.

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East German project shall carry on the turnaround in the German energy policy“Hypos” – A revolution in Hydrogen Industry

t here is such a natural surplus in electricity out of solar power, wind and biomass in the New Laender”, says Prof. Ralf B.

Wehrsporn, head of “Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Ma-terials IWM” in Halle (Saale). This offers immense opportunities. Therefore, a revolution in hydrogen industry shall be started in East Germany. Its name: “Hypos”.

The “Hydrogen Power Storage & Solutions East Germany“ project initiated by the “Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM”, the “Industrial Initiative for Central Germany” and the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics in Central Germany” intends to de-velop economic solutions for using wind and solar power to pro-duce hydrogen via electrolysis on an industrial scale until 2020. It would be a revolution in the hydrogen industry if turning the electricity out of wind and solar power systems, which is only available very inconsistently, into hydrogen through particular chemical processes was possible. Thereby, saving and transpor-ting it for on-going use is another essential condition being met. Then this “green” hydrogen shall serve as raw material for the chemical industry being basis for an extensive electromobility as well as energy source for electricity and heating supply.In order to realize the idea, a consortium of 92 businesses has

been founded. They come from dif-ferent East and West German sec-tors, from large- as well as medi-um- and small-scale companies, from universities and research in-stitutions. Among them, there are glo-bal companies such as “Linde” and “Air Liquide”, also the gas importer and network operator “VNG” and SMEs like “Sunfire GmbH” (Dresden) or “Miltitz Aromatics” from Bitterfeld. The project has also convinced the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In July 2013, it deci-ded to financially support the “”Hypos” consortium in the context of the “Twenty20 – Partnership for Innovation” program.

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66 Agrochemical Institute Piesteritz (AIP)67 Educational Centre for Chemistry Teachers’ Leipzig-Jena (Lfbz)68 Fraunhofer Center for Chemical- Biotechnological Processes (CBP), Leuna69 Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Centre for Polymer Synthesis and Polymer Processing Schkopau PAZ70 Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute for Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Center of Excellence for Polysaccharide Research71 Plastics Competence Centre Halle- Merseburg (KKZ)72 Kunststoff-Zentrum in Leipzig gGmbH (KuZ)73 Merseburg Innovation and Technology Centre – mitz74 Saxon Textile Research Institute (STFI)75 Technology Park Weinberg campus76 Science and Technology Park (TGZ) Bitterfeld-Wolfen77 Innovation Center Bioplastics Lausitz78 Southern German Plastics Centre (SKZ), Halle

46 Fraunhofer-Institute of Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) Leipzig c/o Department of Drug Design and Target Validation (MWT) Halle47 Project Group Biopolymer Processing Schwarzheide (PBS) of Fraunhofer IAP48 Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam Bornim (ATB)49 Deutsches BiomasseForschungszentrum (DBFZ)50 Research Institute biopos51 Research Institute of Leather and Plastic Sheeting (FILK)52 Fraunhofer Research Institution for Polymeric Materials and Composites PyCO53 Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research Potsdam-Golm IAP54 Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM55 Ifw Günther-Köhler-Institute of Joining Technology and Material Testing56 IMA Material Research and Application Engineering GmbH Dresden57 Institute of Polymeric Materials e. V. (IPW)58 Institute for Polymer Technology and Polymer Recycling (IKTR)59 Institute of Lacquers and Paints60 ifn Forschungs- und Technologie- zentrum GmbH61 Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification Leipzig (IOM)62 Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden e.V. (IPF)63 Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces64 Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research Rudolstadt (TITK)65 Institute of Biomaterial Science, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Teltow

29 Bauhaus Universität Weimar, F.A. Finger-Institute for Building Materials Science, Professorship Polymer Werkstoffe30 Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Honorary ProfessorshipComposite plastic materials31 Ernst-Abbe-University of Applied Sciences Jena, Department SciTec – Precision- Optics-Materials-Environment32 University of Applied Sciences Schmalkalden, Department Mechanical Engineering33 Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Otto Schott Institute for Materials Research (OSIM)34 UAS Merseburg, Department of Engineering and Natural Sciences35 Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology (ILK)36 Martin-Luther University Halle-Witten- berg, Institute for Chemistry and Physics37 Martin-Luther University Halle-Witten- berg, Chair for Plastics Engineering38 Polymer Service GmbH Merseburg (PSM)39 University of Cooperative Education Eisenach, Plastics Engineering (EA)40 Akademie Mitteldeutsche Kunst - stoffinnovationen (AMK)41 TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Department of Chemistry and Physics42 Technical University Ilmenau – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Plastics Processing Technology43 Leipzig University, Faculty for Chemistry and Mineralogy44 University of Potsdam, Institute of Chemistry45 Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Faculty of Engineerin

Innovation landscape

1 Chemical Site Leuna 2 Dow ValuePark™3 ChemiePark Bitterfeld Wolfen4 Chemical and Industrial Park Zeitz5 BASF Schwarzheide6 Industriestandort Böhlen-Lippendorf7 Industrial Park Guben8 Industrial Park Premnitz9 Schwedt Industrial Park10 Industrial Park Solvay Bernburg

11 4chiral Network for Research, Production and Marketing of Chiral Compounds12 Educational Centre South Thuringia (BCS e. V.)13 German Association of Plastics Converters14 Plastics Network Brandenburg Berlin (KuVBB e.V.)15 Innovative Network ’Research and Development Plastics Technology Central Germany (FEKM)‘16 Cluster Kunststoffe und Chemie Brandenburg17 micromold.net – network high precision in mold construction and injection molding18 Plastics for medical devices19 Rapid Prototyping Network of Central Germany - enficos20 Industrial Initiative for Central Germany21 Board Prozess- und Anlagensicherheit Mitteldeutschland 22 Network components suppliers plastics Saxony (AMZK)23 Plastics industry Upper Lusatia24 POLySAX – Education Centre for Synthetic Materials Bautzen e. V.25 POLyKUM e. V.26 German Chemical Industry Association (VCI e.V.), Regional Association North East 27 PolymerMat e. V. 28 Special-purpose Association for the Promotion of Mechanical and Process Plant Engineering in Saxony-Anhalt (FASA e.V.)

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research institutions at universities and technical colleges

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Chemical Parks and sites

The site of Bitterfeld-Wolfen has a history of chemical industries of over 100 years. Already back in 1893 the first enterprises started to produce industrial chemical products. The site has developed continuously and convinces with innovation. The ChemiePark today has a modern infrastructure and offers a wide range of services instrumental to production processes so that chemical companies can concentrate on their core business. 360 companies employ 12.000 employees. Not only international companies but also small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent a diverse array of products in the ChemiePark Bitterfeld-Wolfen. Around 4.5 billion Euro have been invested from local, as well as from Japanese, American, Chilean and British companies. On a total area of 1200 ha approximately 120 ha are still available for companies to invest. The current profile of the ChemiePark is characterized by chemistry of chlorine, phosphorus, dyes and pharmaceutical intermediates as well as the fine and specialty chemicals production.

ChemiePark Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Investment and competence have made the Leuna chemical site into a leading industrial location. More than 20 international companies as well as numerous medium-sized enterprises are established on the area of Germany’s largest closed chemical site and invested more than EUR 6 billion to date. From the overall area of 1,300 hectares about 70 hectares are free and prepared for new company’s investments. The production structure ranges from specialty to bulk chemicals. The Leuna significant infrastructure- and service concept of the site operator InfraLeuna GmbH enables the on-site companies to concentrate on their core businesses and offers opportunities for expansions. With the Chemical-Biotechnological Process center (CBP) of the Fraunhofer society a worldwide unique research facility for the development of new processes up to relevant production dimensions was established.

Dow’s facilities in Schkopau, Böhlen, Leuna and Teutschenthal are amongst the most modern chemical sites of the world. The production chain’s starting point is the cracker in Böhlen. Naphta is being cracked into basic chemicals such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, styrene and aromatics. The majority of the-se products is being processed into a variety of plastics within the Dow Olefinverbund. Investors at the ValuePark as well as plastics processors around the world use these for further processing. Since 1998, Dow Olefinverbund GmbH has been operating an industrial park at the Schkopau site – the ValuePark. 21 domestic and international converters and chemical services providers are running facilities in the immediate proximity to the Dow locations. All partners are integrated into an extensive material flow system, supply and production chains as well as joint service and safety management systemsThe bimodal container terminal guarantees excellent logistic conditions and offers services not only to investors at the site. A broad range of research and development services provided by the Fraunhofer Pi-lot Plant Center for Polymer Sythesis and Processing and the Fraunhofer Center for Silicium-Photoltaik makes the Dow ValuePark particularly interesting for innovative companies.

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P-d ChemiePark Bitterfeld Wolfen Gmbh

Dr. Michael Polk Managing Director Zörbiger Straße 22 D-06749 Bitterfeld

Phone: +49 (0) 34 93 / 72345 Fax: +49 (0) 34 93 / 72894 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.chemiepark.de

infraleuna Gmbh

Dr. Christof Günther Managing Director Am Haupttor D-06237 Leuna

Phone: +49 (0) 3461 / 43000 Fax: +49 (0) 3461 / 434290 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.infraleuna.de

dow Olefinverbund Gmbh

Anke Bökelmann ValuePark™ Manager D-06258 Schkopau


www.dow.com/valuepark

™ Trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) or affiliated Companies

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The production site in the east German region called Lausitz covers 290 hectares of industrial used area. Around 1 700 BASF employees operate 16 production and three infrastructural facilities. Its product line includes not only polyurethane basic products and systems, engineering plastics, foams, fungicides, water-based coatings but also and performance chemicals. The portfolio is complemented by 17 com-panies settled on this site. The modern infrastructure and excellent logistical supply supplement this portfolio and ensure a seamless and professional supply of all companies located at the site. In the future the Schwarzheide site will continue to strenghten its profile as a location for specialty chemicals.

The Chemical and Industrial Park Zeitz provides an excellent environment for large industrial as well as small and midsize settlements. Since 1996 have settled on the 237-ha site about 15 domestic- and foreign production companies. These include well-known companies as “Radici Chimica Deutschland GmbH”, “Puralube Germany GmbH”, “Jowat Klebstoffe GmbH” and “Münzing Micro Technologies GmbH”. In connection with the further expansion of the site the newly built facilities of a wheat starch factory of “Interstarch GmbH” have started production in 2009. There are still about 65 ha settlement areas available for new development and settlements. The “Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH” is the competent partner for industrial water supply and waste water disposal as well as site development and -management.

Chemical and industrial Park Zeitz

BasF schwarzheide

The premises with a total of 600 hectares industrial land is the major chemical site in the Free State of Saxony and also an important power generation site (Vattenfall power station). The site has a modern, completely renewed infrastructure and chemical plants. Its profile is characterised by Dow Olefinver-bund GmbH: Crackers, ethylene and propylene as well as feedstock materials for plastics, dyes, adhesives and cosmetics. One company that is incorporated into the material integration on site is Air Liquide, a manufacturer of technical gases. Air Liquide Ost is headquartered in Böhlen. Further firms on site produce plaster boards and stainless steel products. 60 hectares are still available for new business siting.

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BasF schwarzheide Gmbh

Dr. Karl Heinz Tebel Chairman of the Board

Silke Hinko Site Marketing Schipkauer Straße 1 D-01986 Schwarzheide


www.basf-schwarzheide.de

infra-Zeitz servicegesellschaft mbh Chemical and industrial Park Zeitz

Arvid Friebe Managing Director Hauptstraße 30 D-06729 Elsteraue


www.industriepark-zeitz.com

Zweckverband für Planung und erschließung industriestandort Böhlen-lippendorf

Dr. Frank Ciesek Managing Director Industrie- und Gewerbezentrum am Kraftwerk Lippendorf D-04575 Neukieritzsch


www.boehlen-lippendorf.d

sWG städtische Werke Guben GmbhBereich: Wirtschaftsförderung

Alexander SchmiederForster Straße 5803172 Guben


www.wsg-guben.de

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IPP Industrypark Premnitz, a location of tradition and future. Situated on the outskirts of the small town of Premnitz more than 40 enterprises of different industries have settled down on the grounds of the In-dustrypark, 140 hectares that recently have been provided with new structures. During the last five years in the Industrypark arouse a technical infrastructure satisfying even highest demands. Railway and other transport facilities are offered as well as server- and telecommunication services. Two of the remarkable features on this location are its efficient supply of energy (power station of the E.on-group) and its well operating system of waste management with a biological purification plant at its end. Producers of fibre, producers of active carbon, recycling enterprises as well as the metal- processing industry already realized the advantages of the IPP Premnitz.

industrial Park Premnitz

schwedt industrial Park

The Industrial Park Solvay Bernburg covers a total of 40 hectares. Solvay, the owner of the premises, has completely modernised the whole site since 1991 with an investment of more than 600 million euros. Siting in the industrial park is reasonable for companies that either use Solvay products or manufac-turer products that can be used by Solvay. The product integration in Industrial Park Solvay comprises: Soda (light and heavy), sodium carbonate (from technical to pharmaceutical quality), hydrogen pero-xide (technical and ultra-pure quality), hydrogen, brine (NaCl) and limestone. The central Solvay lab performs routine monitoring tasks and special analyses while Solvay Infra GmbH provides a variety of site services. Solvay Chemicals GmbH produces hydrogen peroxide, soda and sodium hydrogen carbona-te. Soda is particularly required in the glass industry; hydrogen peroxide is employed in the production of paper, detergents and, in a special quality, also in computer chip manufacture. To date, 20 service providers have sited in the park.

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The Schwedt Industrial Park is the largest contiguous industrial estate in the northern Brandenburg re-gion. Its direct vicinity to PCK, the leading regional energy and fuel supplier, creates a competitive edge based on synergies and competence. An established industrial location in Germany, Schwedt is one of the 15 regional growth cores benefitting from special funding assistance in the federal state of Branden-burg. A framework contract concluded between InfraSchwedt Infrastruktur- und Service GmbH and PCK Raffinerie GmbH ensures the infrastructure development of the site with the help of public funding pro-grammes. Here, your projects will find support by strong partners, space and acceptance. The Schwedt Industrial Park is open to all industrial sectors. It is strategically located in the northeast of the greater Berlin-Brandenburg economic area on the Berlin-Szczecin axis directly on the border to Poland. It is an ideal launch pad for reaching the markets of Eastern and Central Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic states. The outstanding potentials offered by this location are particularly appealing to investors from the sectors of renewable energies especially biofuels, logistics, metalworking and many other industries. The Schwedt Industrial Park is already home to more than 80 different companies.

industriepark Premnitz stadt Premnitz

Department for Economic Affairs and Tourism Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 21 D-14727 Premnitz

Phone: +49 (0) 3386 / 2590Fax: +49 (0) 3386 / 259111 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.premnitz.de

sOlVaY ChemiCals Gmbh Werk Bernburg

Dr. Thomas Müller Plant Manager, Managing Director Köthensche Straße 1–3 D-06404 Bernburg


www.solvay.de/standorte/bernburg www.IPBernburg.de

industriepark schwedt Gmbh & Co. kG

Vica Fajnor Head of Site Development / Corporate Communication Passower Chaussee 111 D-16303 Schwedt / Oder


www.ipsdt.de

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networks / associations4chiral network for research, Production and marketing of Chiral Compounds

The network is made up of seven fine chemistry and biotechnology companies which are selling their products predominantly to the pharmaceutical industry. Associated partners to the network are Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Working Group on Organic and Bio- organic Chemistry and Leipzig University, Working Group on Organic Synthesis and Metallo-organic Catalysis. A sharp growth is fore-cast for the for the chiral compounds market. In the production of active pharmaceutical agents there will be increasingly only one of two enantiomers will be required because chiral compounds frequently have different physiological properties. The network partners intend to intensify the collaboration for the development of new projects. The objective is to back up the competitiveness of all associated enter-prises by an enhanced product range for our customers.

The BCS can look back on a long tradition. Manifold learning opportunities are particularly developed for vocational training and further education of trainees and qualified employees. The plastics centre offers excellent conditions for achieving all required qualifications in the field of injection moulding. Besides the vocational training all areas of training as well as cooperational training and AZWN-certi-fied and further training are offered. The BCS supports firms and institutions in terms of professional de-velopment and facilitates, the crosslinking of science and business community via project cooperation.

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GKV is the German Association of Plastics Converters. As roof organisation it bundles and represents the common interests of its member associations towards politics and the public. Representing an annual turnover of 56,2 billion Euros and 299 000 employees working in 2 825 companies the plastics conver-ting industry is one of the most important industrial sectors in Germany. The branch is characterised by mainly small and medium-sized companies with an enormous innovative energy and a manifold range of products. Plastics are converted into packaging, building products, technical parts, semi-finished products, consumer goods and many other articles.

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Plastics network Brandenburg Berlin (kuVBB)The network aims to perform the following tasks in the fields of producing, processing and applying of synthetic and biopolymers in Brandenburg and Berlin: Supporting the cooperation of research, develop-ment and business community and facilitating knowledge transfer. Furthermore, KuVBB advances pupils, students and young professionals during their vocational training and forces the industrys’appropriate external presentation which includes contacts to related boards, associations and networks.

14 kunststoffverbund Brandenburg Berlin kuVBB e.V. c/o BASF Schwarzheide GmbH

Dr. Hubert LercheChairman of the Board Schipkauer Straße 1 D-01986 Schwarzheide

Phone: +49 (0) 355 / 2891 3091E-Mail: [email protected]

www.kuvbb.de

4chiral netzwerk für Forschung, Produktion und marketing chiraler Verbindungen

Dr. Bodo SchulzeSpokesman Organica Feinchemie GmbH Kunstseidestraße 5 D-06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen


www.4chiral.net

Bildungs-Center südthüringen e. V.

Horst GerlachManaging DirectorAm Köhlersgehäu 9 D-98544 Zella-Mehlis


www.bcsev.de

German association of Plastics Converters

Dr. Oliver MöllenstädtManaging Director Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade 43 D-61348 Bad Homburg


www.gkv.de

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The innovation-based Network „Research and Development Plastics Technology Central Germany (FEKM)“ combines 10 non-university research institutes and the respective professorships from Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg. In FEKM almost 1000 engineers, natural scientists and technicians are working together. FEKM offers R&D, innovative service, and further vocational training as well. The network interlinks application branches and suppliers such as automotive engineering, biotechnology and medical engineering, electronics, furniture industry and building industry. This joint interregional approach is considered to be unique in the European plastics processing industry.

innovative network ‘research and development Plastics technology Central Germany (Fekm)’

micromold.net – network high precision in mold construction and injection molding Being member of network micromold.net business companies and scientific institutions co-operate along all services in a process chain from design to technical mass-produced articles of plastics. Together emphases of development are defined, implemented and reduced to practice. To develop their traditional business segments to new technologies for mold construction and processing of plastics to precision-high precision-ultra precision is members target. With successful implementation of the results of R&D into a closed process chain the members of network will improve their competitiveness. micromold.net corporates with PolymerMat e. V.

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Plastics for medical devicesMedical devices with its considerations according to quality and safety are a forward-looking market for plastic industry. The approval for this for most of SME is a great obstacle to engage in this interesting market. KuVBB and VDI-BB group of plastic technology founded therefore a working group for this questions. In this group will be informed about production technologies, conditions of approval and selling. If necessary associations of supplier will be organized, questions will be transformed in precise projects and the necessary financial means will be acquired.

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Cluster „kunststoffe und Chemie Brandenburg“

Dr. Karl Heinz Tebel Managing Director BASF Schwarzheide GmbH

Kerstin Dohrmann Cluster Manager Kunststoffe und Chemie Brandenburg

Steinstraße 104–106 D-14480 Potsdam

Phone: +49 (0) 331 / 6603290Fax: +49 (0) 331 / 6603222 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]

www.kunststoffe-chemie-brandenburg.de www.zab-brandenburg.de

Cluster „kunststoffe und Chemie Brandenburg“With its 400 companies and 11,600 employees, the Plastics and Chemistry Cluster is a strong mainstay of industry in the State of Brandenburg. The chemical parks in Schwedt/Oder, Premnitz, Guben, and Schwarzheide feature big, structure-determining enterprises that shape the profile of the cluster. Rubber and plastic products are mainly manufactured in small and medium-sized enterprises and cover a wide range of plastics processing. There is hardly another industry in Brandenburg that is so high-ly interlinked with other branches of industry. Especially as a supplier of many parent products, the plastics and chemical industry has a key role in innovative development of such industries as medical engineering/pharmaceuticals, energy technology, information and communications technology, optics, automotive engineering and many others. As current Areas of Action the specialized topics Biopolymers, Lightweight construction/composite materials and specialty chemicals and the cross-cutting issues Logi-stics for plastics and chemistry and Recruitment of skilled personnel were identified.

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marquardt – kleb-, dicht- und Beschichtungsstoffe e.k.

Ketziner Straße 32D, Haus 16a D-14476 Potsdam OT Fahrland

Phone: +49 (0) 33 / 20823114 Fax.: +49 (0) 33 / 20823115 E-Mail: [email protected]

innovationsnetzwerk Forschung und entwicklung kunststofftechnik mitteldeutschland (Fekm)c/o Kunststoff-Zentrum in Leipzig gGmbH

Dr. Peter Bloß Coordinator FEKM Erich-Zeigner-Allee 44 D-04229 Leipzig

Phone: +49 (0) 341 / 4941 501 Fax: +49 (0) 341 / 4941 555 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.fekm.de

micromold.net – network high precision in mold construction and injection molding

Brigitte Kaminsky Network manager Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 15 D-07545 Gera


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rapid Prototyping network of Central Germany – enficosThe Network of Rapid Prototyping in Central Germany – enficos connects experts and users of different companies and research institutions. Aim, the advantages for regional enterprises in high growth fields like automotive industry, Custom-made crafts, medical and environmental technology as soon as model making must be used and RP needs further development. On top of that, the value-added chain offers RP more opportunities for new fields of application, in particular for the development of new materials such as biopolymer and new medical technological applications for optimizing the wall thickness and surface finishing including coating technologies. A qualitative progress of the companies should be achieved and supported by means of shorter innovation cycles and more efficient production methods.

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industrial initiative for Central Germany (iiCG)In the Industrial Initiative for Central Germany (IICG) companies that play a pivotal role in shaping the region‘s economic structure are involved. Along with chambers of commerce and local authorities they are committed to achieving the common goal of sustainable development and marketing of the united cross-border business location Central Germany. The initiative was founded in 2000 and has since been a reliable partner in all areas of business location marketing.

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Board Process and Plant security Central Germany Board Process and Plant security Central Germany c/o TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH

Rainer LeipnitzNetwork spokesman Wiesenring 2 D-04159 Leipzig


www.anlagensicherheit-mitteldeutschland.de

After the substantial modernization of its large-scale industrial facilities and chemical plants, the long-standing economic region of Central Germany is providing not only expertise in apparatus engineering and plant manufacturing but also in operating large and medium-scale chemical and industrial plants. A lot of companies, educational institutions and research facilities have been built up or further develo-ped, and therefore, a considerable know how could be established. All these potentials are captured by the “Board Process and Plant Security Central Germany”, which is a follow-up of the former network “Pipeline Construction and Plant Manufacturing Central Germany” and now being a part of the “Cluster Chemistry/Plastics Central Germany”. The board is functioning as a communication platform for multi-pliers in the field of process and plant security in Central Germany and is also acting as a go-between for planners, producers and operators of industrial and chemical plants as well as for educational insti-tutions and research facilities and service providers in this sector.

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The network components suppliers plastics Saxony combines about 90 companies. The network’s main focus is to strengthen the competitiveness of plastics engineering suppliers by facilitating communica-tion and cooperation. AMZK promotes joint performance towards automobile manufacturers and system suppliers as well as in the field of marketing. Furthermore, the network forces a better cooperation of small and medium sized enterprises and R&D institutions and facilitates an intensified technology transfer. AMZK supports cooperative projects and professional development.

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mitteldeutsches netzwerk rapid Prototyping – enficos c/o mitz GmbH

Kathrin Schaper-Thoma Network management Fritz-Haber-Straße 9 D-06217 Merseburg


www.rp-netzwerk.de

Wirtschaftsinitiative für mitteldeutschland Gmbh

Jörn-Heinrich Tobaben Managing Director Schillerstraße 5 04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 (0) 341 / 600 1612 Fax: +49 (0) 341 / 600 1613 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.mitteldeutschland.com

netzwerk automobilzulieferer kunststofftechnik sachsen (amZk)

Dr. Herbert PatzschkeCoordinator Erich-Zeigner-Allee 44 D-04229 Leipzig


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The “Verband der Chemischen Industrie e. V.”, Regional Association North East, is an association of the chemical industry in northeastern Germany. It represents the economic interests of the Industry in the States of Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. It provides the industry with a single voice in discussions with authorities, policy makers, media and the public. It is important to the association to be located in close proximity to its members. Therefore it maintains, in addition to the head office in Berlin, additional offices in Dresden and Halle/Saale. For the association this proximity is the precondition to be well acquainted with the potentials and chal-lenges of its members. Member companies may contribute to opinion making processes through active collaboration within the respective boards, committees and councils of the VCI Landesverband Nordost.

German Chemical industry association (VCi e. V.), regional association north east

Everything from one region: In addition to specific technological solutions, Upper Lusatian plastic manufacturers offer the entire product development and marketing range, from individual and series production right up to development of structural components and systems. The spectrum of compa-nies comprises, among other things: Design, rapid prototyping, tool and mould construction, injection moulding, compression moulding, extrusion, deep-drawing, metallisation, ultrasonic welding, painting, irradiation crosslinking, flocking, structural component assembly and tool tempering. Research and development of new products and processes, as well as recruitment and training of junior specialists is pushed in order to further establish oneself on the international market.

POlYsaX – education Centre for synthetic materials Bautzen e. V.POLYSAX education centre for synthetic materials Bautzen e. V. is an initiative of the economy and business orientated institutions and at the same time a platform/orientation for the synthetic-technical vocational training, for studies in the field of business engineer with specialisation in synthetic tech-nologies and for the further education on the job in Saxony. It is aimed to increase the attractiveness of the vocational training in the field of synthetic technologies including its professional perspectives and to ensure the demand of qualified employees. The core of the trainings centre is the state of the art pilot plant station.

Plastics industry Upper lusatia

POLYKUM focuses on promoting the cross-national collaboration in polymer development and plastics technology in Central Germany. The aim is to foster the innovativeness and ability of SMEs to compe-te by providing active support. We strive to safeguard jobs by supporting established companies and start-ups as well as companies interested in setting up new premises. Our strategy for achieving this objective is to maintain a qualified cluster management within the framework of the network of the Central German plastics segment. By encouraging companies to co-operate with one another and with scientific establishments and partners in Germany and abroad, we are able to contribute to the transfer of technology and to improving the infrastructure for these processes.

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Plastics industry Upper lusatia marketing Company Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia GmbH

Tzschirnerstraße 14 D-02625 Bautzen


www.oberlausitz.com/kunststoff

POlYsaX Bildungszentrum kunststoffe Bautzen e. V.

Stefan HörenzManaging director Edisonstraße 4 D-02625 Bautzen


www.polysax.de

POlYkUm e. V. Fördergemeinschaft für Polymerentwicklung und kunststofftechnik in mitteldeutschland

Dr. Michael Busch Executive chairman Gebäude A 74 im mitz II D-06258 Schkopau


www.polykum.de

Verband der Chemischen industrie e. V. landesverband nordost

Kathrin Sommer Department for Technology and Environment Kleine Klausstraße 14 D-06108 Halle (Saale)


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special-purpose association for the Promotion of mechanical and Process Plant engineering in saxony-anhalt (Fasa e. V.)FASA is a cooperation network for innovations and system solutions in mechanical and process plant engineering. Objectives of this association is to allow SMEs to participate in investments and simultane-ously qualify them for international markets, customers and customer demands. In order to realise this task FASA above all supports scientific guidance of network projects to promote networked, globally acting system providers by using innovative ICT. Also practical applications of scientific findings, e.g, by Fraunhofer Institute Factory Operation and Automation (IFF) Magdeburg or the newly established Virtual Development and Training Centre (VDTC), are assisted by FASA by bringing together people from applied research and practice.

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PolymerMat e. V. is a cross-sector network which bundles up the interests of the companies of the plastic industry of Thuringia. It offers a platform for the cooperation of the companies of the plastic branch with innovation and conversion of new technological top performances in the plastic sector.PolymerMat e. V. sees itself as an innovative network of the plastic industry in Thuringia. The aim of the association is to support its members, to increase their scope of action by (common) innovations as well as to strengthen and to extend their market position. As an interface between companies of the plastic industry and politics, the association makes a substantial contribution to the promotion of science, research, education and innovation as well as development of the economy region of Thuringia.

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Fasa e. V. Zweckverband zur Förderung des maschinen- und anlagenbaus sachsen-anhalt

Andrea UrbanskyManaging Director Sandtorstraße 22 D-39106 Magdeburg

Phone: +49 (0) 391 / 4090321 Fax: +49 (0) 391 / 409093321 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]

www.fasa-ev.de

Polymermat e. V. kunststoffcluster thüringen

Prof. Dr. Michael KochExecutive chairman Gustav-Kirchhoff-Straße 5 D-98693 Ilmenau


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Brandenburg University of technology Cottbus-senftenberg, honorary Professorship Composite plastic materialsIn Senftenberg at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg students also get an extensive education in plastics technology. Most of the studying participants belong to faculties mecha-nical an medical engineering.Priorities are thermoplastic materials, elastomers and fiber-reinforced plastics, their application, engi-neering design and manufacturing. The transfer of knowledge ranges from designing tools for plastic processing up to testing technology for plastics. The education is supported by very dedicated regional partners of the plastic area South Brandenburg and East Saxony like the IMA Dresden and the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden. A joint research with a branch of the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Potsdam located at the BASF in Schwarzheide is in development. Imple-mentations of education and research results are also shown in own projects of electric mobility for example the Shell-Eco-Marathon. The students succeeded with their vehicle as “world champion in the battery class 2012”.

Bauhaus Universität Weimar, F.a. Finger-institute for Building materials science, Professorship Polymer WerkstoffeBeside to the professorships “Werkstoffe des Bauens” and “Bauchemie” the professorship “Polymer Werkstoffe” is an equal part of the “F. A. Finger-Institut für Baustoffkunde”at the Faculty of Civil Engi-neering at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.Despite the turn on alternative and also regenerating raw materials polymer binders and building ma-terials are far common in the building industry. The adequate application of these building materials themselves, in addition, their complex cooperating with the other building materials require a ever more special specialized knowledge due to their content wise characteristics. This concerns both the new buil-ding and the increasing range of the reorganization and repair among other things from precast concrete units and concrete buildings. One of the research topics is the scientific exploration of the polymer ma-terials for the restoration of buildings and monuments for example as stone supplementary or coating materials in addition to the investigations in the field of interaction of microstructure and various pro-perties of polymer-modified cement mortars and concretes. The applied research of polymer materials in hybrid structures which have great potential for the civil engineering represents another field of work.

ernst-abbe-University of applied sciences Jena, department scitec – Precision-Optics-materials-environmentThe University of Applied Sciences Jena, founded in 1991 as institution of higher education, currently has about 5,000 students. Its strong technical focus is illustrated by the departments of Plastics enginee-ring, Manufacturing engineering, Materials engineering Process-integrated environmental protection, Photovoltaic’s, and Industrial engineering. The department SciTec is the largest of the university. Within many R&D co-operation projects, knowledge and competences of the university are transferred to com-panies. The Graduates are known for their practical knowledge and are welcome especially in industries where technical products are developed, manufactured, tested and recycled.

ernst-abbe-Fachhochschule Jena, Fachbereich scitec – Präzision-Optik-materialien-Umwelt

Dr. Dirk SchlegelHead of ServiceCentre Research and Transfer (SZT) Carl-Zeiss-Promenade 2 D-07745 Jena


www.fh-jena.de/forschung

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Bauhaus-Universität Weimar F. a. Finger-institut für Baustoffkunde Professorship Polymer Werkstoffe

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Dimmig-Osburg Coudraystraße 11 D-99421 Weimar


www.uni-weimar.de

Brandenburgische technische Universität Cottbus-senftenberg, honorary Professorship Composite plastic materials

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Ridzewski Wilhelmine-Reichard-Ring 4 D–01109 Dresden

Phone: +49 (0) 351 / 8837499 Fax.: +49 (0) 351 / 8837530 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.hs-lausitz.de/maschinenbau

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Friedrich schiller University Jena, Otto schott institute for materials research (Osim)

University of applied sciences schmalkalden, department mechanical engineeringThe laboratory of applied plastics engineering belongs to the faculty of mechanical engineering. It contributes the lectures of the course of studies of applied plastics engineering by several practical lessons for students in plastics engineering, plastics testing and plastics processing to evaluate proper-ties and applications of plastics. The focus in cooperation with companies are lying in product design and in mold design. Presently there is research at identification of specific values of biological and medical plastics, mold design of non-lubricant molds and product design of medical parts according to DIN EN 13485.

Fachhochschule schmalkalden lehrstuhl für Fertigungstechnik und Werkzeugkonstruktion

Prof. Dr. Thomas SeulBlechhammer 4-9 D-98574 Schmalkalden


www.fh-schmalkalden.de

At the Chair of Materials Science thermoplastic polymers, copolymers, polymer blends, stimuli (thermo)-responsive polymers and polymeric biomaterials and biodegradable polymers for biomedical enginee-ring are developed, characterized and tested. We focus on structure-property relationships, polymer physics and structure formation, such as crystallization and phase separation, etc. of block copolymers, as well as the interaction of proteins and cells at polymeric biointerfaces. Fiber and particle-reinforced composites for applications in mechanical and automotive engineering as well as carbon nanotube-reinforced composites are another focus of research. In addition to the structure-property relationships, we develop new manufacturing processes, such as microwave polymerization in this area.

Uas merseburg, department of engineering and natural sciencesUAS Merseburg, located in close proximity to ultra-modern chemical plants in Leuna and Schkopau, presently has 3,000 students tutored by about 110 professors and a large number of scientific assistants. The Department of Engineering and Natural Sciences and its degree programmes of Chemi-cal, Enviromental and Polymer Engineering is of particular importance in connection with the cluster process Chemistry/ Plastics Central Germany. UAS Merseburg is a synonym of excellent research activi-ties in individual subjects and inter-disciplinary settings. State-of-the-art technical lab equipment, co-funded by the business community, enables us to take on future technical and multi-medial challenges.

hochschule merseburg FB ingenieur- und naturwissenschaften

Prof. Dr. Thomas RödelGeusaer Straße 88 D-06217 Merseburg


www.hs-merseburg.de

The ILK is carrying out extensive research in the field of load-adapted lightweight structures. Work is based on a comprehensive approach both in terms of materials and products throughout the entire ma-nufacturing chain – material, design, engineering, simulation, fabrication, component, quality assurance and costs. Key research areas include materials characterisation and failure analyses, analytical and numerical (FE) modelling, simulation / optimisation of composite materials and materials compounds, design of lightweight, ultra-lightweight and adaptive lightweight structures, component testing, qua-lity assurance, economic and ecological product design, prototyping and pilot trials, electric mobility. These activities are complemented by manufacturing equipment capable of series production.

dresden University of technology, institute of lightweight structures and Polymer technology (ilk)

technische Universität dresden institut für leichtbau und kunststoff-technik

Prof. Dr. Werner HufenbachInstitute Director D–01062 Dresden


www.tu-dresden.de/mw/ilk

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus D. Jandt Löbdergraben 32 D-07743 Jena

Phone: + 49 (0) 3641 / 947730 Fax: + 49 (0) 3641 / 947732 E-Mail: [email protected]

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martin-luther University halle-Wittenberg, institute for Chemistry and PhysicsThe field of polymer chemistry at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg is provided by the two professors of polymer chemistry (Prof. W. Binder) and physical chemistry of polymers (Prof. J. Kressler). Both professors work in the fields of modern strategies of polymer synthesis and in the application of advanced methods of polymer characterization. Next to the studies of chemistry (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) an En-glish speaking internationally oriented Master course exists in the field of Polymer Materials Science.

martin-luther-Universität halle-Wittenberg, naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät ii – Chemie und Physik

Prof. Dr. Jörg Kreßlervon-Danckelmann-Platz 4 D-06120 Halle (Saale)


www.chemie.uni-halle.de/bereiche_der_chemie/ physikalische_chemie/ag-kressler/

The company Polymer Service GmbH Merseburg (PSM) was founded in the year 2001. Main fields of business are contract and industrial research in the range of synthesis of polymers, processing of pla-stics, characterization and testing of polymeric materials, morphology and micromechanics as well as damage analysis of plastics components. Based on a cooperation treaty between company PSM and Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg the innovation potential of the University can be used to offer a wide spectrum of services. In a network with the Institute of Polymeric Materials (IPW) and the Polymer Competence Centre of Halle-Merseburg (KKZ) the company PSM supports the transition of results of fundamental research into industrial practice.

Polymer service Gmbh merseburg (Psm)Polymer service Gmbh merseburg

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang GrellmannManaging Director Geusaer Straße, Gebäude 131 D-06217 Merseburg


www.polymerservice-merseburg.de

martin-luther University halle-Wittenberg, Chair for Plastics engineeringThe Polymer Technology of the University Halle-Wittenberg understands itself as a complex scien-tific subject area including components of materials science, processing, and materials application. The polymer-specific activities include the development of new and modified polymer materials, polymer testing and characterization, the selection, technological design and optimization of molding processes as well as the evaluation of material limits, and polymer recycling. The research activities are foccused to the development of new polymer materials well fitted to definite final applications as well as to the description of the processes of structure and morphology formation during processing.

martin-luther-Universität halle-Wittenberg Chair Polymer technology

Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim RaduschKurt-Mothes-Straße 1 D-06120 Halle (Saale)


www.kunststofftechnik.uni-halle.de

University of Cooperative education eisenach, Plastics engineering (ea)staatl. studienakademie thüringen / Berufsakademie eisenach kunststofftechnik (ea)

Prof. Dr. Uwe Hoyer Head of programme Am Wartenberg 2 D-99817 Eisenach


www.ba-eisenach.de

The State Academy Thuringia is offering job specialisation and further education in the fields of machine tools, plastics engineering, rubber processing, construction proposal, special machine elements, manuf-acturing process design, dynamics of machines, plastic moulding, polymer processing machines, quality assurance, working and operating safety as well as environment protection, factory planning, CAE tools, project papers and bachelor thesis.

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The department of plastics technologies was established as an endowed chair in the year 2009 by local industry, STIFT foundation and Technische Universität Ilmenau. The important elements of the departments work are research projects comprising local, national and international companies as well as qualifying future plastics engineers. Therefore the studies in mechanical engineering (bachelor and master degree) were enriched with a major in plastics technologies. Furthermore the department offers industrial services covering multidisciplinary tasks in the fields of materials, mechanical and process engineering as well as applications engineering. Student thesis’ focusing on industrial topics and doing doctorates are supported by the department of plastics technologies.

technical University ilmenau -Faculty of mechanical engineering, department of Plastics Processing technology

tU ilmenau Fakultät für maschinenbau Fachgebiet kunststofftechnik

Prof. Dr. Michael KochHead of Department Meitnerbau, Gustav-Kirchhoff Straße 5 D-98693 Ilmenau


www.tu-ilmenau.de/kti

akademie mitteldeutsche kunststoffinnovationen (amk)In the year 2007 professors of the Plastics Competence Centre of Halle-Merseburg together with the Institutes of Polymeric Materials and the company Polymer Service GmbH Merseburg established an incorporated foundation in the town Merseburg. The aim of the foundation is the promotion of science and research by projects as well as further education in the field of polymers and plastics engineering. The transfer of knowledge and ideas produced at universities in the industry should be supported by research contracts, organization of scientific congresses and financial sponsorship of apprentices, students and postgraduates. With these awards at the same time the foundation wants to promote young scientists and gives support for the development of scientific infrastructure.

tU Bergakademie Freiberg, department of Chemistry and PhysicsIn the field of silicon chemistry the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Department of Chemistry and Physics is mainly focussed on molecules, polymers & materials: Aminosilanes & silazanes: Syn., modification & application; Higher coordinated chloro- & hydridochlorosilanes; Chelate ligands for 5- & 6-fold coor-dinated Si-complexes; Rearrangement reactions of Si-compounds; Polymer derived Si/C/N- & Si/C/O-ceramics; Metal-ceramic-nanocomposites; Si-nanoparticles: Chlorsilane reduction, surface chemistry; Wet etching of Si (Si-recycling, texturing); (Poly)silylcarbodiimides, non-oxide gels. Further activities in the filed of materials science are concerned with heptazine derivatives, CNx compounds, C/N- and C/N/P falme retadants, sol-gel chemistry, high pressure phases and hard materials in the system SiAlON Aas well Aas ultrahard nanocomposites.

tU Bergakademie Freiberg department of Chemistry and Physics Prof. Dr. Edwin KrokeHead of institute Leipziger Straße 29 D-09599 Freiberg


www.chemie.tu-freiberg.de

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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grellmann Chairman Dr. Katrin Reincke Foundation management Geusaer Str., Gebäude 131 D-06217 Merseburg

Telefon: +49 (0) 3461 / 462774 Telefax: +49 (0) 3461 / 462592 E-Mail: [email protected]

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University of Potsdam, institute of Chemistry The Institute of Chemistry at the University of Potsdam is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The laboratories and research groups at the Institute of Chemistry cover all aspects of the che-mical sciences. Research fields range from inorganic and organic to physical & theoretical, and polymer chemistry. The research groups have strong ties with the other institutes of the University of Potsdam, but also with the Berlin Universities, the surrounding non-university institutes such as the Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes located at the Science Park (Wissenschaftspark) Golm. Numerous national and international research institutions exist as well. The polymer and colloid section investigates radical polymerization in supercritical CO2 and ionic liquids, and questions related to the formation, stability, modification of microemulsions and their properties.Besides, the groups located at the Institute of Chemistry, there are a number of faculty that hold joint appointments with other institutions. Currently there are three such groups, all of which focus on ma-terials or polymer-related questions.

leipzig University, Faculty for Chemistry and mineralogyAbout 28,000 students are currently enrolled in Leipzig University founded in 1409. Chemistry already had a great tradition at this university in the 19th century. Professors like Kolbe, Wislicenius, Ostwald, Beckmann, Hantzsch and Helferich were first rank in their subjects and eminent chemists have emerged from their schools. Chemistry/plastics activities are today assigned to the Faculty for Chemistry and Mineralogy. Besides a number of professorships, the faculty has several associated institutes, e.g., the Institutes for Nonclassical Chemistry or for Interdisciplinary Isotope Research. In a joint appointment with the Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification a professorship in Technical Chemistry of Polymers belongs to the faculty.

Universität leipzig Fakultät für Chemie und mineralogie

Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider Dean Johannisallee 29 D-04103 Leipzig


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technical University of applied sciences Wildau, Faculty of engineeringThe Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau located at a S-Bahn Berlin station is a dynamic player of the regional development for application-oriented research and development showing peak values of funds granted by third-party donors. Numerous courses originating from traditional mechani-cal and process engineering contain modern non-metal materials lessons. Especially the know-how of the team and the equipment for plastics processing, testing and analytics is applied in cooperative R&D projects, preferably in thematically organized networks together with regional, national or European partners from industry and research facilities regarding thermoplastics as well as duromers.

technische hochschule Wildau Fachbereich ingenieurwesen / Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen

Prof. Dr. Michael Herzog Materials Science Bahnhofstr. D-15745 Wildau


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Universität Potsdam, institut für Chemie

PD Dr. habil. Helmut Schlaad Professorship Polymer chemistry Karl-Liebknecht Straße 24–25 D-14476 Potsdam / Golm


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deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (dBFZ)The work of the DBFZ is centered on politically relevant issues, such as how the limited availability of biomass resources can contribute in the most efficient and sustainable manner to existing, as well as future energy system. The DBFZ monitors and evaluates the most promising fields of application for bioenergy in theory and practice, supported through various collaborative research projects, carried at both national and international level, with partners and stakeholders ranging from industry, academia and various scientific research associations. The project orientated research provides scientifically-based results to support informed decision making governmental and non-governmental organizations, and adjacent industrial sectors in the energy, agriculture and forestry, while also identifying areas for further research. The scientists of the DBFZ are represented as experts in bioenergy research due to their excel-lent technical expertise and their presence in numerous national and international committees.

Fraunhofer-institute of Cell therapy and immunology (iZi) leipzigc/o department of drug design and target Validation (mWt) halleThe department of Drug Design and Target Validation of the Fraunhofer IZI works on new drug targets and the development on new therapeutics to fight neurodegenerative, inflammatory and cancer conditions. Based on long-standing research and development expertise the team is uncovering pathological mechanisms on molecular levels, identifying target proteins for therapeutic approaches as well as for diagnostic analysis. The medicinal chemistry laboratory is designing potent new development candi-dates (NCIs) and characterizes them in vitro and in vivo. Primary research focus of the team is posttrans-lational protein modification, leading to misfolding and formation of toxic aggregates in the human cell. Besides new drug synthesis, the laboratories for cell biology & pharmacology as well he enzymology & target validation of the department develop new enzymological, cell-based and immunological assays for in vitro & in vivo characterization of the new chemical entities (NCIs) and as potential diagnostic kits.

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Fraunhofer-institut für Zelltherapie und immunologie (iZi) leipzig Abteilung Molekulare Wirkstoffbiochemie und Therapieentwicklung (MWT) Halle

Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Demuth Department Head Biocenter Weinbergweg 22 D-06120 Halle (Saale)


www.izi.fraunhofer.de

deutsches BiomasseForschungsZentrum (dBFZ)

Katrin Schumacher Paul Trainer Press and Public Relations Torgauer Straße 116 D-04347 Leipzig


www.dbfz.de

leibniz institute for agricultural engineering Potsdam Bornim (atB)

Project Group Biopolymer Processing schwarzheide (PBs) of Fraunhofer iaP

The Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam Bornim (ATB) and is a European research centre for agricultural engineering with an interdisciplinary field of activity at the nexus of biological and technical systems. The ATB’s mission is to develop sustainable technologies for the resource effici-ent and carbon neutral utilization of biological systems to produce food, raw materials and energy. The institute runs a pilot plant for the continuous biotechnological production of lactic acid – as a chemical base for bio-plastics – from biogenic raw or waste materials. Current research focuses on the extension of the raw material base, on the selection of new bacteria strains, on enhance process stability and on the production of pure L- and D-lactic acid.

The Project Group Biopolymer Processing Schwarzheide and its processing facility which was opened in April 2013 are a nucleus for the Innovation Center Bioplastics Lausitz, an initiative of Plastics Network Brandenburg Berlin (KuVBB), Fraunhofer IAP and BASF Schwarzheide GmbH. PBS supports the plastics processing industry with the introduction of biopolymers an biobased plastics in their processing and product portfolios. This is necessary because these materials often demand substantial modification of processing routes originally developed for mineral oil based polymers. The project group shall thus support an increasing utilization of polymers made from renewable resources in the Lausitz region and beyond. For this purpose the PBS processing facility has available a well-equipped analysis laboratory and modern extrusion and injection molding capacities. The main focus of our extrusion processing is on polymer flat films and tubular blown films, while specimens for initial thermo-mechanical testing can be obtained via injection molding. The processing facility will be also open for students of plastics engineering of the Lausitz University of Applied Sciences in Senftenberg.

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leibniz institute for agricultural engineering Potsdam-Bornim e. V. (atB)

Prof. Dr.habil. Reiner Brunsch Director Max-Eyth-Allee 100 D-14469 Potsdam


www.atb-potsdam.de

Projektgruppe Biopolymerverarbeitung schwarzheide des Fraunhofer iaP

Dr. Mathias Hahn Head of Project Group Biopolymer Processing Schwarzheide of Fraunhofer IAP Gebäude 754 Schipkauer Str. 1 01987 Schwarzheide


www.iap.fraunhofer.de/de/Forschungsbereiche/Synthese-und-Polymertechnik/anwendungszen-trumbiopolymere.html

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Fi biopos e. V.

Prof. Dr. habil. Birgit KammDirector Kantstraße 55 D-14513 Teltow


www.biopos.de www.biorefinica.de

research institute bioposThe Institute‘s main topic of research and development is environmentally sustainable biorefinery con-cepts, processes, systems and products. To this end, close attention is given to bioactive polymer systems, especially substrate affinity and chromatography, polyelectrolyte complexes and bioorganic synthesis. Studies are carried out on cellulose, sugars and proteins as basic refinery products, on the one hand as complex natural products, but more especially for their biotechnological and chemical hydrolytic degradation products, such as hydroxy acids (lactic acid, malic acid, for example), amino acids (lysine, glutamine), betaines (carnitine), furanes and alcohols.

research institute of leather and Plastic sheeting (Filk)The Research Institute of Leather and Plastic Sheeting (FILK) gGmbH is a branch institute of the leather and plastic sheeting industry. The institute is partner of the industrial economy. In particular, research and development projects are performed which are funded by the AiF within the framework of the industrial joint research and supported by the EuroNorm Ltd. The division Plastic Sheeting is mainly engaged in developing formulations and technologies for coating of laminar substrates with polymers. Objective is the attainment of functionalised surfaces of the material composites by coating. Thereby, the positive physical and mechanical properties are to be retained. Traditionally, research projects in the field of leather are conducted in the division Leather/Biopolymers. In addition, techniques for extracting and processing of biopolymers particularly collagen are researched.

Forschungsinstitut für leder und kunststoffbahnen gGmbh

Prof. Dr. Michael StollManaging Director Meißner Ring 1-5 D-09599 Freiberg


www.filkfreiberg.de

Fraunhofer research institution for Polymeric materials and Composites PYCOFraunhofer PYCO has developed highly cross-linked polymers (thermosets) for all applications with par-ticular reference to aviation, information and communication technology and instrumentation. The work is particularly focused on lightweight composites and on micro- as well as optoelectronics: new (nano) materials, prepregs, all kinds of fiber-reinforced materials, sandwich structures, bistable displays and in-tegrated optical devices. Fraunhofer PYCO is able to meet the needs of SMEs for scientific advice by way of a range of application labs as well as the manufacturing lab for fiber reinforced plastics. There is also a close cooperation with the Chair of Polymer Materials of Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus.

Fraunhofer research institution for Polymeric materials and Composites PYCO

Prof. Dr. Monika BauerDirector Kantstraße 55 D-14513 Teltow


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Fraunhofer institute for applied Polymer research iaP

Prof. Dr. habil. Hans-Peter Fink Head of the institute Wissenschaftspark Golm Geiselbergstraße 69 D-14476 Potsdam-Golm


www.iap.fraunhofer.de

Fraunhofer institute for applied Polymer research Potsdam-Golm iaPFor more than twenty years the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research in Potsdam-Golm has been very successful in the development of new materials and technologies from bio- and mineral oil based polymers. We can find them e.g. in biobased high performance fibers for fast cars, organic light emitting diodes for displays or artificial corneas for eye surgery. Our materials cover the whole range of polymer applications. In this context Fraunhofer IAP is a leading provider of applied cellulose and starch research. We are also very engaged in synthesis- and polymer technology, functional polymer systems for applications in optics and electronics and water-based special polymers e.g. for medical and other life science applications. Spinning technologies form a major part of our processing activities. We also have the facilities to translate developed technology from the laboratory to the pilot plant scale close to real production conditions. This is demonstrated especially by our Pilot Plant Center Schkopau PAZ. There we together with the Fraunhofer Institute for the Mechanics of Materials (IWM) develop solutions for the optimization of the value creating chain from the monomer via synthesis up to the scale of a few up to processing into large plastic components for technical applications. Since April 2013 we also operate a processing facility as Project Group Biopolymer Processing Schwarzheide on the chemical site of BASF Schwarzheide GmbH.

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ima material research and application engineering Gmbh dresdenIMA Material Research and Application Engineering GmbH (IMA Dresden) develop and create tailor-made tests for all materials and components for traffic engineering sector, medical engineering, plastic and metal industry. At IMA Dresden you will find comprehensive engineering competence in issues of stability, function and reliability. Located between research and industry, we will accompany you, if desired, along the entire development of a product in order to verify its durability, function and safety. Focus is on conception, realisation and analysis of verification and development tests on structures and components, strength calculation, damage analysis, construction of prototypes for fiber composites, long-duration tests and quality assurance.

ima material research and application engineering Gmbh

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Fleischer Managing Director Wilhelmine-Reichard-Ring 4 D-01109 Dresden


www.ima-dresden.de

ifw Günther-köhler-institute of Joining technology and material testingBecause of a balanced mix of technology, material and application competence the ifw Jena became an accepted service provider of application-oriented R&D in the field of joining technology and material engineering since it was founded in 1991. The ifw is a competent partner for companies of all branches and sizes when it comes to specific joining issues – especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. One main focus is company-related technology and process consultancy. Furthermore, the ifw offers targeted R&D, development and implementation of plant concepts and pilot solutions as well as profes-sional training.

Günther-köhler-institut für Fügetechnik und Werkstoffprüfung Gmbh

Dr. Ing. Sabine SändigManaging director Otto-Schott-Straße 13 D-07745 Jena


www.ifw-jena.de

the Fraunhofer institute for mechanics of materials iWmThe Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM characterizes, simulates and evaluates the behavior of materials, components and systems under the influence of external forces in different en-vironments. It works with companies and public agencies to develop solutions that improve the safety, reliability, durability and functionality of technical components and systems, thus making them more cost-effective, energy-efficient, and economical with natural resources. This helps the region, Germany and Europe to compete on the global market. The Fraunhofer IWM places high demands on itself in terms of its scientific achievements, and holds a leading position in its fields of expertise, i.e. material and component characterization, modeling and simulation of materials, and interfacial and surface technology. The Fraunhofer IWM in Halle concen-trates on the automotive electronics, microelectronics, microsystems technology, photovoltaics, polymer processing and aircraft industries.

Fraunhofer iWm halle

Prof. Dr. Ralf B. WehrspohnDirector Walter-Hülse-Straße 1 D-06120 Halle (Saale)


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institute of Polymeric materials e. V. (iPW)The Institute of Polymeric Materials (IPW) was established at June 11th in 1992 as the first An-Institute in Saxony-Anhalt at the former Technische Hochschule “Carl Schorlemmer”. In the 1993, the IPW was associated to the Martin-Luther University and emanated from the excellent and confiding cooperation with the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences, in January 2011 the IPW was associated as An-Institute at the Merseburg University of Applied Sciences. The IPW cooperates primarily with the field of Chemistry/Polymer Materials of the Department Engineering and Natural Sciences. Main fields of activity of the IPW are the realization of research and development projects, the support and advance-ment of knowledge transfer into the economy as well as the organization and realization of workshops, symposia and conferences.

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Prof. Dr. T. Rödel chairman Prof. Dr. W. Grellmann vice chairman Geusaer Str., Geb. Fo 131 D-06217 Merseburg


www.ipw-merseburg.de

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leibniz-institut für Oberflächen- modifizierung e.V.

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c Bernd RauschenbachDirector Permoser Straße 15 D-04303 Leipzig


www.iom-leipzig.de

leibniz institute for surface modification leipzig (iOm)The Leibniz Institute for Surface Modification (IOM) is engaged in application-oriented fundamental re-search aimed at gleaning scientific findings on physical and chemical mechanism that are of importance in fabrication and modification of special surfaces, thin layers and plastics. The IOM covers a broad ran-ge of different fields of research, such as fabrication of special polymer layer by radiation with electrodes or UV light and production of solvent-free, eco-friendly plastics. Further research work is conducted in the fields of electrically conductive polymers, catalytically active surfaces and surface structuring till into the atomic sphere. The institute also deals with ion- and laser beam-supported precipitations of epitaxial layers and synthesis of biocompatible surface areas.

institute of lacquers and Paintsinstitut für lacke und Farben e. V. magdeburg

Dr. Norbert Pietschmann Dr. Ulrich Westerwelle Managing Director Fichtestraße 29 D-39112 Magdeburg

Phone: +49 (0) 391 / 6090240 +49 (0) 391 / 6090222 Fax: +49 (0) 391 / 6090217 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

www.lackinstitut.de

The development and testing of coatings, coating materials (lacquers and paints), and coatings raw materials as well as application-technological services and coatings research have been domiciled in the Institute of Lacquers and Paints for half a century. The institute, itself, arose from the developmental laboratories of the Magdeburg paint factories. Corresponding to this tradition, industry-oriented re-search, development, and testing based upon highly sophisticated know-how obtained from long-time experience and current research activities are main constituents of the corporate philosophy of our private enterprise. Areas of operation are publically promoted industry-oriented fundamental research, contracted research and development, and various testing services etc. This comprises, e.g. the develop-ment of modern and environment-friendly coating materials: water-based coating materials, UV cura-ble lacquers, powder coatings, functional coatings; nanocomposite coatings, sol-gel coatings, plasma polymerization layers; application-technological, analytical, and physical investigations on coatings raw materials, coating materials, and coatings (including approval tests of coatings materials) as well as analysis of damage events and certificates.

ifn Forschungs- und technologiezentrum Gmbh

Dr. Gudrun KötterManager Madeleine Stäubner Head of Research Dr.-Bergius-Straße 19 D-06729 Elsteraue OT Tröglitz


www.ifn-ftz.de

ifn Forschungs- und technologiezentrum Gmbh The Institut für Neuwertwirtschaft FTZ GmbH is an Industrial Research- and Technology Centre with the main tasks of research and development in the fields of ecological and chemical process development. Our offer to SME is to do the complete Research and Development work starting with idea of innovation of products or technology and ending with the pre basic engineering of the newly developed processes, in some cases we join also the basic and detail engineering and the scale up to industrial plants and their setting on work. There are laboratories equipped with modern analytical equipment, halls for pilot plants and a group of engineers, technicians and craftsmen for technical demands. The main fields of our R&D work are chemical and biochemical processes, reclamation of soil, water and air, recycling processes for products, biomasses and wastes as well as energy production by renewable resources.

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institut für kunststofftechnologie und -recycling e. V.

Anke SchadewaldChairwoman of the board Industriestraße 12 D-06369 Weißandt-Gölzau


www.iktr-online.de

institute for Polymer technology and Polymer recycling (iktr)The Institute for Polymer Technology and Polymer Recycling is located at Weißandt-Gölzau since 1993 and operates in the field of polymer R&D. Business segments are the development of formulations, mate-rials, processes and products as well as the modification and functionalisation of polymers. An academic team with interdisciplinary knowledge and innovative ideas as well as a variety of mixing and coating technologies and modern measurement devices and available. Development of antimicrobial and bio-cidal additives, preparation and processing of chlorine-free polymer and rubber dispersions for various applications, reduction of the emission of particleboards, formulation of polymeric dental materials and modification of powder coatings are core competencies of IKTR. Furthermore the institute is focused on providing services in materials testing, compounding and reactive extrusion.

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institute of Biomaterial science, helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, teltowFundamental research is performed at the Institute of Biomaterial Science in Teltow on multifunctional, polymer-based materials and their applications in Regenerative Medicine. Multifunctional biomaterial systems allow tailoring of material properties and functions (e.g. shape- memory effect or the capability of controlled drug release) to the requirements of a specific application. These complex demands cannot be completely fulfilled by the materials established in clinics to date. The research strategy follows a comprehensive approach by addressing design, synthesis, and processing of biomaterials, testing for cell tolerance, immune response and toxicity, as well as examination of interactions of polymers with bio-logical environments in vivo. The research and innovation platform “biomaterial science and bioactive environments”, which could be realized in Teltow with the establishment of the Biomedical Technology Centre, allows the production of cell culture devices, implants and controlled drug delivery systems both on a laboratory scale and on scales suitable for pre-clinical or clinical tests. The translation of the results from fundamental research in clinical applications is performed especially at the Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), which is the jointly operated clinical translation centre of Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Teltow.

leibniz institute of Polymer research dresden e. V. (iPF)The works of the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden bridge the gap between fundamental research on macromolecules and their application as plastics materials or functional polymers in high-tech branches. A special feature is the interdisciplinary co-operation between chemists, physicists, and engineers. Research is focussed on interfaces which are of crucial importance in many technological processes, in the material’s contact with the environment, and as internal interphases within materials. The studies include synthesis of new polymer structures and modification of commercial polymers, characterization and testing of materials, as well as technological investigations on processing of plastics (including composites and fibres).

leibniz-institut für Polymerforschung dresden e. V.

Prof. Dr. Brigitte VoitManaging Director & CSO Hohe Straße 6 D-01069 Dresden


www.ipfdd.de

max Planck institute of Colloids and interfacesThe Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces was founded in 1992. Research in Colloid and Interface Science is widely covered by the following Departments: Biomaterials, Biomolecular Systems, Colloid Chemistry, Interfaces as well as Theory and Bio-Systems. Current research topics are polymeric films, membranes, microcapsules, organic and inorganic nano- structures, biomineralization, nano- and microreactors, molecular motors and filaments as well as chemistry and biology of carbohydrates. Biomimetic research is at the core of the Institute’s activity. Common goal is to learn from nature how to build hierarchical materials or active systems with new functionalities, with adaptive, self-healing or self-assembling properties.

max-Planck-institut für kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung

Prof. Dr. Markus AntoniettiManaging Director Am Mühlenberg 1 D-14476 Potsdam-Golm

Tefefon: +49 (0) 331 / 5679500Fax: +49 (0) 331 / 5679502 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.mpikg.mpg.de

thuringian institute for textile and Plastics research rudolstadt (titk)The Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research (TITK) is an extra-mural research institute in the fields of textile and plastics research. Its work is focused, inter alia, on: characterisation of polymer solutions and polymer melts, synthesis/modification, characterisation and shaping/ processing of syn-thetic polymers to generate specific material functions, chemical modification and deformation of native polymers, synthesis of specific plastics additives for functionalisation and technology development for polymerborne microelectronics and micro-systems engineering, production and application of nano-layers on flexible substrates.

thüringisches institut für textil- und kunststoff-Forschung e. V.

Dr. Ralf BauerExecutive Director Breitscheidstraße 97 D-07407 Rudolstadt-Schwarza

Phone: +49 (0) 3672 /379100Fax: +49 (0) 3672 /379379 E-Mail: [email protected]

www.titk.de

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institut für Biomaterialforschung, helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Gmbh

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lendlein Director of institute Kantstraße 55 D-14513 Teltow


www.biomaterials.hzg.de

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Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Centre for Polymer synthesis and Polymer Processing schkopau PaZThe Fraunhofer pilot plant centre for polymer synthesis and polymer processing (PAZ) at Schkopau is an initiative of the Fraunhofer IAP and IWM institutes. We boast modern polymer synthesis, processing and process control equipment under one roof and provide R&D projects along the entire polymer added-value chain. Key research and work spheres: Lab-scale development/adaptation of polymer systems; analysis of thermodynamic and kinetic parameters in polymer syntheses; process-engineering adaptati-on of lab syntheses in pilot plants; physical and chemical characterisation of polymers; toll syntheses: Production of small and test batches; reaction regime optimisation incl. reactor geometry; analysis of rheological properties of polymers, polymer blends and filler-reinforced polymer systems.

Fraunhofer-Pilotanlagenzentrum für Polymersynthese und -verarbeitung

Prof. Dr. Michael BartkePilot Plant Centre Manager ValuePark A 74 D-06258 Schkopau


www.polymer-pilotanlagen.de

Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP), leunaThe new Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP offers cooperation partners from research and industry the utilization of regenerative raw materials for the industrial (white) bio-technology in industrial dimensions. The project group is hold by the Fraunhofer Institutes for Interfaci-al Engineering and Biotechnology IGB and for Chemical Technology ICT. By supplying of infrastructure and pilot plants and by a close binding to the Fraunhofer research on the one hand and to the chemistry location Leuna on the other hand the CBP is available for the development of processes from the raw material through chemical or biotechnical processes up to the scale-up of processes into industrial scale. With a modular biorefinery concept biological raw materials can be processed and oils, fats, cellulose, starch or sugar-containing raw materials be won as basic materials for chemical products.

agrochemical institute Piesteritz (aiP)The Agrochemical Institute Piesteritz is a joint initiative of SKW Nitrogen Works Piesteritz, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry. The institute works in research projects on the topic of fertilising, inter alia fundamental research into efficiency optimisation of nitrogen fertilisers. Close entwinement of research topics shall bring about inter-disciplinary coope-ration between farmers, chemists, process engineers and plant biologists. Integration with the research department of SKW Piesteritz enables combination of scientific expertise with industrial product ma-nagement and infrastructure at a chemical site.

Centre of chemistry teacher’s advanced training leipzig-Jena (lfbz)The Centre of chemistry teacher’s advanced training Leipzig-Jena (Lfbz) is supported by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. It offers continuation courses for teachers of all school forms to inform them of new, promising methodological concepts and experiments for che-mical education, new ideas of learning processes and learning difficulties and new chemical knowledge. A successful cooperation with industry has developed. The Lfbz also offers lectures for pupils.

Chemielehrerfortbildungszentrum leipzig-Jena an der Universität leipzig

Prof. Dr. Rebekka HeimannManaging Director Johannisallee 29 D-04103 Leipzig


www.uni-leipzig.de/~lfbz

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agrochemisches institut Piesteritz e. V. c/o skW stickstoffwerke Piesteritz Gmbh

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim NiclasMöllensdorfer Straße 13 D-06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg


www.skwp.de

Fraunhofer-Zentrum für Chemisch- Biotechnologische Prozesse CBP

Gerd Unkelbach Head of project team CBP Am Haupttor D-06237 Leuna


www.cbp.fraunhofer.de

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kunststoff-kompetenzzentrum halle-merseburg

Prof. Dr. Ing. Hans Joachim RaduschManaging Director Geusaer Straße 88, Gebäude 131 D-06217 Merseburg


www.kkz-halle-merseburg.de

kunststoff-Zentrum in leipzig gGmbh (kuZ)

Dr. Peter BloßManaging Director Erich Zeigner Allee 44 D-04229 Leipzig


www.kuz-leipzig.de

kunststoff-Zentrum in leipzig gGmbh (kuZ) Having started operations in the plastics technology in 1960, the KuZ possess comprehensive expertise in thermoplastics and polyurethane processing. Our fields of work include design, mold engineering and processing technologies, as well as materials development, welding technology and plastics testing. Also within the micro range, our wide experience has given proof of generating successful solutions. „With industry – for industry“ is our claim we work to meet. As an established industrial-related insti-tute, we are your experienced partner when practical problems have to be solved. Whether we meet your requirements within a short-term service, common research project or as further vocational training, our know-how is always available to you.

The Polymer Competence Center Halle-Merseburg (PCC) represents an inter-institutional, inter disciplinary scientific institution of the University of Applied Sciences Merseburg and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. PCC has its residence at the campus Merseburg and is practicing research, professional qualification, and academic graduation of young researchers in the field of polymeric materials in coo-peration with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and University of Applied Sciences Merseburg. The scope of business of the PCC is especially to foster the application oriented research in the field of polymeric materials and polymer technology. In this scientific alliance synergistic effects for intensifi-cation of the transfer of know-how and research results into the industry shall be reached by means of the cooperation of the scientific structures and competences of the participating partners. Another goal is to bring together the application oriented research with practice.

Plastics Competence Centre halle-merseburg (kkZ)

The Center of Excellence for Polysaccharide Research (KZP) is a high-performance research institution that was established at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research Rudolstadt in 2002. Its activities are focused on R&D work on polysaccharides as functional raw materials of the future. Products and processes are examined and developed both in fundamental and applied research. The KZP pursues different strategies for derivatisation and shaping of biopolymers. Numerous methods are established for the product characterization on all structural levels. Existing equipment also permits transfer of processes up to R&D test facility scale. Moreover, the KZP ensures education and advanced training of students in the long term.

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merseburg innovation and technology Centre – mitzThe Innovation and Technology Centre of Merseburg, mitz, support founders of new businesses as well as small and medium sized technology orientated enterprises during the start- and settlement phases. A special emphasis is placed on the transfer and use of results from basic and applied research for in-dustrial purposes. Innovative young entrepreneurs, existing firms, and interested companies will have convenient start conditions in this industrial area of Central Germany. The extension mitz II with the integrated Fraunhofer Pilot Plant Centre for polymer synthesis and processing situated in the ValuePark® Schkopau and offers also ideally conditions and a direct link to competent partners from research, science and economy. It therefore operates as a tie between plastics research, production and application.

merseburger innovations- und technologiezentrum (mitz)

Kathrin Schaper-ThomaManaging director Fritz-Haber-Straße 9 D-06217 Merseburg


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Friedrich-schiller-Universität Jena institut für Organische Chemie und makromolekulare Chemie, kompetenzzentrum Polysaccharidforschung

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heinze Full Professor for Organic Chemistry Humboldtstraße 10 D-07743 Jena


www.agheinze.uni-jena.de

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Stadt Halle (Saale) Department of Business and Science Fachbereich Wissenschaft 06100 Halle (Saale)


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KuVBB e. V., Netzwerk für Kunststoffe - Chemie – Biopolymere Innovationszentrum Bioplastics Lausitz

Dr. Hubert Lerche Schipkauer Straße 1 01987 Schwarzheide

Phone: +49 (0) 355 / 28913091 Fax: +49 (0) 35752 / 62512 E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]

www.bioplastics-lausitz.de

southern German Plastics Centre (skZ), halleWith its portfolio the Southern German Plastics Centre – SKZ is an experienced and practical partner for the whole plastics branch for more than 45 years. The main focuses of services of the branch office Halle are on the regional and worldwide adult learning as well as in research mainly in the fields of fibre composite technologies, industrial adhesive bonding and the assembling of thermoplastics for almost all branches like wind energy, construction engineering, automotive, pipeline and accessory engineering. This offer is added by organizing symposia and workshops, providing expertises, assessments, advisory services and academic teaching.

science and technology Park (tGZ) Bitterfeld-WolfenThe main emphasis is on supporting the establishment of technology-oriented companies and the development of synergetic effects between businesses, university as well as non-university research institutions. It is our aim to create a technology park in order to support regional and national transfer of technology. Areas of competence are synthesis of fine and special chemicals for active substances and high-tech products, coating and layer technology, photophysics, photochemistry, photovoltaic con-version, environmental technology as well as renewable primary products/new materials.

tGZ technologie- und Gründerzentrum Bitterfeld-Wolfen Gmbh

Kurt LauschManaging director Andresenstraße 1a D-06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Phone: +49 (0) 3494 / 638300Fax: +49 (0) 3494 / 638302 E-Mail: [email protected] www.tgz-chemie.de

saxon textile research institute (stFi)As a non-profit research institution the STFI is committed to the traditions of the Saxon textile re-search. Based on our three pillars, including the Center of Excellence in Nonwovens, the Innovation Center of Technical Textiles and various testing and certification services, we will dedicate ourselves to further specialized tasks in research and development of technical textiles in the future. Additionally, the construction of all types of lightweight textiles is one of our main goals, starting with CFRP semi-finished products to functionally-integrated and process-optimized manufacturing processes ranging up to the development of hybrid textile material composites.

technology Park Weinberg campus

innovation Center Bioplastics lausitz

The focus at the weinberg campus Technology Park on innovative potential is almost completely un-paralleled in the new federal states and promises to become a clear competitive edge for future users in symbiosis with the creation of space for industry research and development. The Technology Park is home not only to the scientific departments of the Martin Luther University, but also to the renowned Max Planck, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz and Leibniz Institutes and the up-and-coming tech companies loca-ted in the Technology and Founders’ Centre and the Bio-Centre. Approximately 5,400 jobs are located here and a synergetic circle of innovators create a network that is known far beyond Halle’s borders. Companies particularly in the areas of biotechnology, photovoltaics, chemistry, pharmacy, environmen-tal engineering are being approached to fill the available space of approximately 17 hectares.

The Innovation Center Bioplastics Lausitz is a joined initiative of Plastics Network Brandenburg Berlin (KuVBB), Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, Potsdam-Golm, and BASF Schwarz-heide GmbH. The main objective of the initiative is to build a network of research institutions, techno-logy developers, manufacturing companies and users. This is both an offer for Berlin and Brandenburg, and also for interested national and international parties. In this way strong impulses for the develop-ment of new products and technologies will be given to the emerging field of biopolymers and bioba-sed plastics. Over medium and long term, the expansion of the industrial use of bioplastics mainly in medium-sized companies for plastics processing and product development shall be supported. In this connection particularly system solutions with bioplastics shall be supported. Also the setting up of ap-propriate R & D and production facilities in the chemical site Schwarzheide and beyond in the Lausitz region shall be encouraged.

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sächsisches textilforschungsinstitut e. V. (stFi)

Andreas Berthel Managing director Annaberger Str. 240 09125 Chemnitz


www.stfi.de

skZ – das kunststoff-Zentrum

Thoralf Krause.Branch Office Manager Köthener Straße 33a 06118 Halle (Saale)


www.skz.de

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