Exhibitor details

At the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST we open up the potentials for future-oriented products and the associated competitive and scalable production systems. Our research encompasses plant engineering, entire process chains of process engineering, process technology and manufacturing technology all the way through to the consideration of entire factories.

Taking the requirements of sustainability as a starting point, we maintain an overview of the entire product life cycle – from the material, through the process of creating the component and product, and on to recycling.
Based on our technology and competence fields, the technical departments of the Fraunhofer IST create solutions especially for the sectors plant and mechanical engineering, tools, vehicle construction, aerospace, energy, optics, medical and pharmaceutical process engineering, agricultural and food industry, as well as environmental technology. this includes solutions for battery production, the establishment of hydrogen technologies and the production of tribological, sensory and precision optical systems, methods and technologies in the areas of analytics, simulation and digital services as well as the systematic consideration of sustainability requirements and a circular economy using life cycle engineering.