Address: Brentanostraße 2, 63755 Alzenau, Germany
Phone: +49 6023 32039-801
Web: http://www.iwks.fraunhofer.de
Contact: Dr. Stefan Hanstein
Company description:
The aim of the Fraunhofer IWKS is to make a contribution to a sustainably healthy planet Earth. His research focuses on establishing a closed-loop economy: today’s waste is tomorrow’s resource. Valuable raw materials can be recovered and recycled or replaced by sustainable, environmentally and socially acceptable alternatives. To this end, innovative processes are being developed in the areas of magnetic materials, energy materials, bioeconomy and the digitalization of resources. The results of the research are transferred to industry.
The Fraunhofer IWKS team researches and works at two locations: Alzenau (Bavaria) and Hanau (Hesse). With more than 90 employees from the fields of environmental management, process engineering, materials science, industrial engineering, (micro)biology, ecotrophology, chemistry and physics, the institute focuses on an interdisciplinary research approach.