Completed projects

Polyphenol-based IR-active markers enable targeted reuse of plastics in purer sorting fractions.

Duration: 01.02.2022 - 31.07.2024

Chemically regenerable, superparamagnetic activated carbon for the removal of trace substances from waste waters

Duration: 01.10.2018 - 30.09.2021

Closing industrial material cycles through new electrochemical fluidized bed reactors

Duration: 01.09.2016 – 31.08.2019

Electrochemical degradation of phosphonates in industrial process waste water using diamond electrodes

Duration: 01.04.2018 – 31.10.2019 

Turning baby diapers into raw materials

Duration: 01.06.2017 – 30.05.2022

Glycans and co-products as biogenic valuable materials - Subproject: Extraction and filtration of glycans and co-products

Duration: 01.06.2020 - 28.02.2023

Biobased, biodegradable hemicellulose-based binder systems for UV-curing offset printing inks
Duration: 01.04.2021 - 31.07.2024

Development of bio-based and biodegradable coatings for bio-based packaging.  

Duration: 01.09.2016 – 31.8.2019

Innovation space: BioBall - INFeed - Customized feed for a sustainable nutrition (subproject B) - implementation phase
Duration: 01.07.2020 - 30.06.2022

Alternative recycling of environmentally critical metals from steel mill dusts through mechanochemical treatment

Duration: 26.04.2017 – 25.10.2018

Phosphorus recycling turning recyclates into long-term available fertilizers

Duration: 01.08.2016 – 30.09.2019

Avoidance, substitution and sustainable circular economy of plastics in the urban-rural context

Duration: 01.01.2020 - 31.01.2025

Regional phosphorus recycling in the Rhine-Main area under consideration of industrial and agricultural material cycles, subproject 7

Duration: 01.07.2020 - 31.05.2023

The "Reslag" project meets the challenge of recycling steel slag through four eco-innovative, industrial alternative applications.  

Duration: 01.01.2016 – 28.02.2019

Microbial biofactories: Photorhabdus & xenorhabdus bacteria as production strains for biologically active natural products

Duration: 01.7.2020 - 30.04.2023

Circular Carbon Technologies. Coupling of energy and raw material processes for recycling and binding of CO2

Duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2023

Upscale of material recovery from display applications and printed circuit boards

Duration: 19.07.2017 – 18.07.2020

Digital information management in the actor chain of the circular economy in the manufacturing industry

Duration: 01.04.2021 – 30.09.2023

Forcycle II - Innovative recycling processes for electronic waste

Duration: 01.07.2019 - 30.06.2022

Development of innovative processes for the recovery of rare earth elements and platinum group metals from mineral processing and production residues.

Duration: 01.06.2015 – 30.11.2018

Reduction of arsenic in copper concentrates

Duration: 01.09.2019 – 31.08.2023

Urban material flow management: Instruments for the resource-efficient development of urban districts
Duration: 01.03.2019 - 28.02.2022

Urban material flow management: instruments for the resource-efficient development of urban districts

Duration: 01.09.2022 - 31.08.2024

Supporting Education on Sustainable Management of Critical Raw Materials for professionals, academics and students

Duration: 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2020

Massive Open Online Course on sustainable management of critical raw materials

Duration: 01.04.2020 - 31.03.2022

TReMin - networking and transfer project - SP 3: transfer, cross-industry and cross-technology issues
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2024

Intelligent recycling of used batteries from electric vehicles

Duration: 01.01.2018 – 30.06.2021

Thinking battery recycling holistically

Duration: 01.05.2020 - 31.10.2021

Efficient recycling process for fuel cells

Duration: 01.03.2020 - 28.02.2023

Energy storage with high-voltage batteries

Duration: 01.04.2016 – 30.09.2018

Closing the loop: building circular skills on the entire value chain for Circular Economy

Laufzeit: 01.07.2022-31.12.2024

Optimized process chains for hydromechanical Li-ion battery recycling

Duration: 01.01.2021 - 30.06.2024

Materials for lightweight design

Duration: 01.04.2017 – 30.12.2019

Materials for sustainable tandem solar cells

Duration: 01.10.2019 - 30.11.2024

New energy-efficient recycling of battery materials

Duration: 01.07.2016 – 30.06.2019

Infrastructure and competence network for lightweight mobility: body and chassis

Duration: 01.01.2016 – 31.12.2018

Raw materials solutions for energy technologies in the European mobility industry

Duration: 01.01.2016 – 31.12.2018

Raw materials solutions for the European powertrain industry

Duration: 01.01.2016 – 31.12.2018

Standardization and norming of recycling processes for silicon solar modules

Duration: 01.04.2021 - 28.02.2023

Fire protection and optimized recycling through sensor-based sorting of Li-ion batteries

Duration: 01.04.2020 - 31.03.2021

Center for Dismantling and Recycling for Electromobility in Hanau

Duration: 01.04.2020 – 31.03.2023

The lighthouse projects aims at developing technologies to process rare earth elementss more efficiently, to reuse them or to find substitute materials

Duration: 15.11.2013 – 30.06.2018

3D printing of NdFeB-permanent magnets

Duration: 01.01.2020 – 31.12.2021

Functional magnet recycling for sustainable e-mobility.

Duration: 01.05.2020 - 30.04.2022

High-tech metals are again produced from old electronic equipment

Duration: 01.06.2015 – 28.02.2019

Alternative magnetic materials with reduced content of critical elements

Duration: 01.09.21 – 31.08.2022

High-performance magnetic materials based on SmCo and CoFe for highly efficient electric automotive and aircraft engines.
Laufzeit: 01.11.2018 - 31.10.2021

Magnetometry Network

Duration: 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2020

Rare earth elements should not only be reduced but also preserved. The magnetic properties of the materials concerned are to be improved.
Duration: 01.04.2016 – 31.09.2019

Transferring mixed waste magnet streams into new magnets using various recycling technologies

Duration: 01.01.2021 - 30.06.2023

Paving the way for a process chain for the production of competitive rare-earth magnets from Brazilian resources
Duration: 01.08.2017 – 31.07.2020

Manufacturing of scandium compounds and scandium-aluminium alloys from European metallurgy by product

Duration: 01.12.2016 – 30.11.2020

Fracture-resistant magnetic materials for highly efficient energy storage systems

Duration: 01.04.2017 – 31.03.2020

Securing the supply chain for rare earth polymer-bonded magnets by recycling

Duration: 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2021

Upscaling the strip-casting process, allowing to obtain alloys with refined microstructure for new permanent magnets

Duration: 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2021

Development/evaluation of innovative recycling methods for the recovery of tantalum from electronic waste

Duration: 01.10.2016 - 30.09.2019

Development and evaluation of innovative recycling routes for the recovery of tantalum from electronic waste.

Duration: 01.02.2021 - 31.01.2022

Laminated glass recycling through selective shredding

Duration: 01.04.2020 - 31.03.2021

Transparent design of material cycles and optimization of waste sorting assisted by artificial intelligence
Duration: 01.10.2020 - 30.09.2023

From waste to raw material - green molecules for chemistry

Duration: 01.01.2021 - 28.02.2025