Research projects

Quelle: IfBB

The long-term goal of the project is to improve the ecological footprint of plastics applications. To this end, the plastics industry should be enabled to predict, measure and optimise this already during the design and component selection of a production process, instead of having to correct the process at a late stage of development, as has been the case up to now, which is costly and resource-intensive.

Quelle: fritz-kulturgüter GmbH

Beverage crates are an established mass product made of fossil-based plastic. However, due to their multiple use as a reusable product with a long life cycle, they are particularly suitable for the use of bio-based materials. The potential for reducing CO2 emissions in logistics during the use phase of the beverage crates is high.

Quelle: Elena Rabkina on Unsplash

In the PLA2Scale research project, bio-based plastic packaging for food made from polylactic acid blends (PLA blends) is to be developed. The focus is on material-efficient use, a high biobased content (more than 80 percent) and optimal product protection for the packaged goods.

Quelle: raumprobe OHG

Designing products that can be recycled and save resources is becoming increasingly important from a sustainability perspective and is attracting more and more attention. Designers and product developers are therefore very interested in the sustainable design of their products, taking bio-based materials into account.

Quelle: Crafting Future GmbH

The overall objective of the research project is to develop the most sustainable and recyclable reusable bowls with lids made of bio-based and/or recycled plastics that circulate in Germany's largest deposit system for "to go" food and at the same time remain in the material cycle through recycling at the end of their life cycle. Both bio-based or recycled plastics as well as sensible combinations of both types of plastics can be used as starting materials. The use of a mono-material is essential to ensure recyclability.