Press and media releases 2011

On 23 May 2011 the course was set in Alzenau for the new Fraunhofer Project Group for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS. Walter Scharwies, Mayor of Alzenau, handed over the keys to the premises, n which preparations for a rapid commencement of work by the project group shall begin, to Prof. Gerhard Sextl, head of the Fraunhofer ISC in Würzburg, the parent institute of the new project group.

On 11 January 2011 around 80 high-raking guests from industry and research met in Hanau to discuss the safeguarding of raw material supply in the future. The background to the event was the joint initiative of the Materials Valley e. V. and the Fraunhofer Society e. V. to found a new institute for materials recycling and substitution in the District of Aschaffenburg. The Bavarian State Government has already earmarked 5 million Euro as start-up funding.