CBP – Branch of Fraunhofer IGB

Fraunhofer IGB Brief Profile

The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB develops and optimizes processes, products, and technologies in the business areas of health, food, environment, raw materials and energy – always with a view to economic efficiency and sustainability. We offer our customers R&D services ranging from feasibility studies to implementing new processes in industrial practice, supplemented by a broad spectrum of analysis and testing services.

Our strengths are offering complete solutions from the laboratory to the pilot scale. Customers also benefit from the constructive interplay of the various disciplines at the institute which opens up new approaches and system solutions for complex tasks. Our research focuses on e.g. medical devices and molecular diagnostics, functional ingredients from algae, water and wastewater technologies as well as biobased chemicals and functional materials.

The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP is a branch of Fraunhofer IGB, another branch of IGB is located in Straubing (BioCat).

Fraunhofer CBP: From project group to branch

The establishment of the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP as a project group of the Stuttgart Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB was initiated by the former Director Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth. Under his leadership in 2009 the construction of the Process Center at the Leuna chemical site was officially agreed between the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

On October 2, 2012 the new building was inaugurated in the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel.

After completion of the five-year start-up funding and successful evaluation in 2014 the project group was transferred to the Federal Government/Länder financing of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and thus became a permanent part of the Fraunhofer IGB.

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