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Welcome to the web site of the Fraunhofer pilot plant center (PAZ) for polymer synthesis and polymer processing at Schkopau ValuePark. Here, we work out answers to your questions concerning the optimisation of the process chain, from raw materials for synthesis to tailor-made finished components.



The Fraunhofer pilot plant center.
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With a technical area of approx. 1,000 m2 and approx. 700 m2 office and laboratory space, we can carry out polymer synthesis processes in solution, bulk, emulsion and suspension as well as various processing methods, including injection moulding compounding (IMC). Our facilities have a high degree of online monitoring and are equipped with a modern process feedback system (fieldbus technology) for process control.

Beside the development of new polymer systems from laboratory to pilot plant scale, activities in the synthesis section centre on process optimisation in the field of polymerisation technology. The latter is undertaken in co-operation with the Department of Polymerisation Technology at the Martin Luther University of Halle.

The processing section concentrates on the development of application-specific thermoplastic compounds and prototype components, paying particular attention to the influence of processing on material and component properties.

We would like to invite you to come and get to know our competence centre and our staff, to try out the equipment, see for yourself the amazing new possibilities and use them for your own innovations! Be the first to find out how things can be done better.

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