Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance

Fraunhofer Lead Market Chemistry
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Applied research and development to accelerate innovations for a safe and sustainable chemistry
 

Founded in 2021, the Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance builds on decades of collaboration between currently 15 Fraunhofer institutes and the chemical industry. Our goal is to leverage complementary competencies and interdisciplinary synergies to support industrial customers in technology development and scaling up to develop sustainable, innovative products and processes.
With bundled Fraunhofer know-how, inventiveness and a unique infrastructure, we are a strong partner for the chemical industry on its ambitious path to defossilized and circular production processes.

ILMAC 2025 in Basel

ILMAC 2025 Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance
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»Inspiring the Future of Chemistry and Life Sciences«


The Fraunhofer Alliance Chemistry presented tools for process intensification and flexible flow reactors for electrochemistry in Basel, as well as the project 'BioLight,' which focuses on the continuous synthesis of fine chemicals using modular cascade reactions. Additionally, production technologies for mRNA-based medicines were showcased, and the project 'SeedPlus' demonstrated innovative seed coatings for sustainability and yield security.

All exhibits at ILMAC highlighted the shared goal of leveraging the complementary capabilities of the 16 institutes within the alliance to support industrial companies in the development and scaling of sustainable and innovative products and processes.
 

ILMAC 2025

Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance at ACHEMA 2024

Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance ACHEMA 2024
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For the second time, the Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance had a large joint stand at the world's leading trade fair for the process industry.


From 10-14 June 2024, the Fraunhofer Chemistry booth D49 in Research Hall 6.0 was the place to be. There was plenty to discover and try out, as well as the opportunity to engage in technical discussions with the right contacts.

The numerous exhibits were presented according to the focus topics Green Chemistry, Digitization, Circular economy, Safety as well as Scale-up and Efficiency.

 

Impressions ACHEMA 2024

Focus topics

Applied research and development to accelerate innovations for a safe and sustainable chemistry

The Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance at a glance

We develop systemic solutions for a successful energy and raw materials transition and contribute to a sustainable industrial society with interdisciplinary research.

On one view

The Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance is the application-oriented research and development partner of the chemical industry.

With state-of-the-art research infrastructure from laboratory to pilot scale, our focus is on developing basic research results to a higher level of technological maturity and supporting our partners in large-scale implementation. Our own pre-developments constantly complement our R&D portfolio.

The particular strength of the alliance lies in its complementary competencies and the high technical qualifications of its employees. This enables us to realize holistic solutions at system level.

Areas of competence

  • Chemical and biotechnological synthesis and reaction engineering
  • Process engineering and process technology
  • Production systems and plant engineering
  • Formulation technology and materials
  • Modeling, simulation and digitalization
  • Safety, regulatory and assessment

Project examples

AmmonVektor

Sustainable energy carrier for the transportation of hydrogen
 

ShaPID

Shaping the Future of Green Chemistry by Process Intensification and Digitalization
 

Waste4Future

From waste to raw material - green molecules for chemistry
 

Cluster Circular Plastics ­Economy CCPE

Making the plastics value chain circular

Our offer

We offer our customers and research partners interdisciplinary research and development that goes far beyond the central disciplines of chemistry, biotechnology and process engineering.


Whether urgent trouble-shooting projects, exclusive process and product developments or strategic projects to meet the challenges facing the chemical industry in global change: the Fraunhofer Chemistry Alliance is the one-stop shop for applied research and development and offers a variety of cooperation formats for this purpose.