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  • Sustainable supply with raw materials and energy

    Press Release Feb 13, 2012 

    The material and energetic utilization of biomass reduces the emission of gases harmful to the climate, diversifies the raw materials supply and stabilizes it long-term. At the Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster Bioenergy in Oberhausen, Germany, industry and science as well as the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia are bundling their competencies to develop new utilization concepts for biomass. The objective is to tap optimization potentials in collection, transport, storage and process management.

  • Vacancies for young researcher with ideas for self-healing materials

    Press Release Jan 23, 2012 

    Research and training network »SHeMat«

    Interested early stage researchers and postdocs who are interested in self-healing materials can apply for 15 vacancies at the European research and training network »SHeMat«. Fraunhofer UMSICHT coordinates the 4-year-term project. Applications can be submitted until January 30, 2012 for a starting date on July 2.

  • International Center for Solvation Science will be realized

    Press Release Jan 16, 2012 

    From winter 2014/15 onwards the research on solvation processes will start in the “Centre for Solvation Science“ (German: ZEMOS) at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. About 44 billion Euro will be assigned to the research field of solvation. The center will bundle the expertise of more than 20 research groups of RUB, Max Planck Institutes for Kohlenforschung (Mülheim) and Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf), and the Fraunhofer-Institute UMSICHT (Oberhausen) in a total space of almost 4,000 square meters.

  • 2011 Plastic Sustainability Award goes to FKuR founder

    Press Release Sep 09, 2011 

    Award ceremony of the Plastic Sustainability Award 2011

    Dr. Edmund Dolfen was awarded the 2011 Plastic Sustainability Award by the platform BKV for Plastics and Recycling and the Fraunhofer UMSICHT organization, on the occasion of the colloquium “Future of plastics’ recycling” in Krefeld on September 6th 2011. The award honors outstanding dedication and achievements for the sustainable use of plastics and plastic waste.

  • New high-quality composite materials made of bio-based plastics, natural and wood fibers

    Press Release Sep 01, 2011 

    Wood plastics composites

    At the Composites Europe in Stuttgart from September 27 to 29, Fraunhofer UMSICHT presents samples of untreated and treated natural fibers as first results of the EU project ECOplast. In addition, the first results of the MouldPulp project started in 2011 for the development of a novel wood biopolymer material suitable for injection molding were displayed.

  • »MouldPulp«: New biocomposites from bioplastics and pulp fibres

    Press Release Jul 25, 2011 

    The Swedish company Innventia together with an industrial consortium has developed a promising wood-polymer material from cellulose pulp and PLA. An industrially viable production process for producing the material into granules for injection moulding without changing the material identity is currently not available. A multidisciplinary and international team from Sweden, Finland and Germany led by Fraunhofer UMSICHT is working on this in the research project »MouldPulp«.