Milestones - Fraunhofer IWKS

Initial situation and founding impulse

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Institute building at the Alzenau location

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Institute building at the Hanau location

The founding of the Fraunhofer Project Group IWKS and its localization in the Rhine-Main region was decisively influenced by cooperating companies of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg. The aim was to create an institution in the Aschaffenburg/Hanau industrial area that would develop research and technology know-how in the field of recycling and substitution in close cooperation with the companies. The proximity to the regional universities and colleges of natural, material and engineering sciences also promised good networking.

The German states of Bavaria and Hesse provided substantial funding to support the establishment of the Fraunhofer Project Group IWKS with the aim of attracting top-level research to the region, strengthening the research landscape and promoting the transfer of research into innovative products.

Initial situation and founding impulse

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Research sabbatical Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff

Fraunhofer IWKS appoints Dr. Emanuel Ionescu as new Deputy Director

Leopoldina appoints Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff

Fraunhofer IWKS is now responsible of the lighthouse project "waste4future"

Prof. Anke Weidenkaff wins the 2022 Karl Böer Renewable Energy Mid-Career Award

ICRC - 1. international conference on resource chemistry

High-Performance Center for Hydrogen started in Hesse

Opening of the new building in Alzenau

Opening of the new building in Hanau

Start of ZDR-EMIL

New Research Institution for Resource Security

Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff takes over management

Cooperation with french Network Trimatec

Groundbreaking ceremony for new Fraunhofer research building in Alzenau

Opening exhibition "Less is more" in the city library Alzenau

Alzenau welcomes the winner (chemistry) of the "Jugend forscht" competition

Groundbreaking Ceremony

Fraunhofer project group IWKS receives the environmental Award 2016

First Hessian Resource Efficiency Congress - Successful kick-off event

The German Resource Research Institute (GERRI) is online

Opening of the Ressource-effizienz-Center in Bavaria

Efficient recycling of lithium-ion batteries - research project started

Fraunhofer Project Group IWKS nominated for the raw-material efficiency Award2015

Event "Resource efficiency on the ground"

Recycling and re-use of medical explants and medical high-performance metals

Operation of 3-dimensional atomic probe

Foundation of the "German phosphorus-platform DPP e.V.

The German Phosphor platform was established as a national institution and was linked to the Fraunhofer project group IWKS

Groundbreaking ceremony for the new engineering center in Alzenau

Opening of the second location in Hanau

Open day in Alzenau

The bavarian environment minister visits Alzenau

The handover of the keys for the Project Group in Alzenau

Planning of a new Fraunhofer Institute