The milestones of the Fraunhofer IWKS

Initial situation and founding impulse

© Rainer Taepper
Institute building at the Alzenau location
Institute building at the Hanau location
© Wolf Dieter Gericke
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. 

1.3.2023

Leopoldina appoints Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff

7.2.2023

Fraunhofer IWKS appoints Dr. Emanuel Ionescu as new Deputy Director

1.1.2022

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

6.4.2022

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 buidling in Alzenau

Openening of the new building in Hanau

Start of ZDR-EMIL

17.4.2019

New Research Institution for Resource Security

29.10.2018

Prof. Dr. Anke Weidenkaff übernimmt Leitung

17.5.2017

Cooperation with french Network Trimatec

14.5.2017

Groundbreaking ceremony for new Fraunhofer research building in Alzenau

23.4.2017

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

11.4.2017

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

14.6.2017

Groundbreaking Ceremony

Groundbreaking ceremony for new Fraunhofer research building in Hanau

 

7.12.2016

Fraunhofer project group IWKS receives the environmental Award 2016

16.11.2016

First Hessian Resource Efficiency Congress - Successful kick-off event

24.10.2016

The German Resource Research Institute (GERRI) is online

21.10.2016

Opening of tge Ressource-effizienz-Center in Bavaria

6.9.2016

Efficient recycling of lithium-ion batteries - research project started

4.12.2015

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

8.9.2015

Event "Resource efficiency on the ground"

31.3.2015

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

26.3.2015

Operation of 3-dimensional atomic probe

12.2.2015

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

7.6.2013

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

8.3.2013

Groundbreaking ceremony for the new engineering center in Alzenau

29.6.2012

Opening of the second location in Hanau

4.6.2012

Open day in Alzenau

20.3.2012

The bavarian environment minister visits Alzenau

23.5.2011

The handover of the keys for the Project Group in Alzenau

11.1.2011

Planning of a new Fraunhofer Institute