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Research Promotion
in the Department of Refining and Product Application

Fraunhofer IPA

In the downstream area, we coordinate around 30 research projects per year.

We network project partners from a wide range of technology fields: Materials, production technologies, chemistry and chemical processes, biotechnology, energy and resource efficiency, energy technology, measurement and control technology, vehicle technologies, drive technology, aviation, lightweight construction, process engineering, maritime technologies, etc.

We shape industry-oriented research

The topics for the project work arise from the day-to-day business of the member companies and from the dialog between industry and science. Project ideas are welcome. Get in touch with us!

The decision on joint research requirements is the responsibility of the DGMK members in the relevant expert committee.

Your Contact to the DGMK Office

Jan Ludzay

Head of the Refining and Product Application Department

Nadine Ludzay

Coordination Refining and Product Application

BMWK funding

The research projects in the product area are mainly realized within the framework of the Industrial Collective Research (IGF) and funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection. The results are available to all interested companies.

In 2023, the DGMK's Processing and Application department received funding of over EUR 1.6 million from the BMWK as part of the IGF competition procedure.