Events and Trade Fairs

Fraunhofer IGB is represented with an exhibition stand at the international trade fair for fine and specialty chemicals.

Topics of Fraunhofer IGB

• Biobased chemicals and materials from renewable resources
  
  • Biobased monomers for polyamides
    
  • Biopolymers: Chitin and chitosan from insects
    
  • Biosurfactants
  • Short- and long chain dicarboxylic acids (itaconic acids, maleic acid, FDCA, lcDCA)
    
  • Xylonic acids
  • Epoxides from plant oils
• Catalysts

• Modified biomaterials with adjustable properties
  
  • Gelatin, collagen, hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, heparin   
    
• Functional algal compounds for nutrition and cosmetics
  
• Scaling-up pocesses to industrial dimensions