The project involves the entire plastics recycling value chain in order to push the boundaries of mechanical recycling and achieve the best possible...
The IKV spin-off OSPHIM presented itself successfully at the recently concluded Hannover Messe and at Kuteno. With its range of services for AI-based...
The 32nd International Colloquium Plastics Technology demonstrated clearly that the plastics industry has plenty of possibilities for meeting the many...
Reifenhäuser awards prize for master's thesis on modelling the injection volume flow in the injection moulding process to IKV scientist, Tien Viet-Anh...
Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Bourdon, supervisory board member at KraussMaffei Group, receives the Georg Menges Prize 2024, which is awarded every two years for...
The FSK Innovation Award, a prestigious recognition for pioneering ideas related to materials, was awarded to Eduard Kremer, a scientific assistant in...
Aachen, October 2023 – In the research project "Tape Technology Transfer Hub" (T³-Hub), which has been running since December 2021, the Institute for...
RWTH Aachen University continued its tradition this year and invited former graduates who received their doctoral certificate 25 or 50 years ago. This...
The Association of German Engineers (VDI) expressed its great appreciation to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann on 21 June by presenting him with the...
The international Hydrogen Business and Technology Forum initiated by the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and Trade at RWTH Aachen...
The deep tech startup company IonKraft, which has its roots at IKV, is among the 78 innovative companies selected by the European Commission under the...
The recommendations for action are the result of a dialogue process initiated and moderated by PlasticsEurope Deutschland e.V. and were developed in...
As a prize winner, Daniel Fritsche also qualified to participate in the 37th SAMPE European Students Seminar, which took place in Hamburg from 15-17...
Fairs and exhibitions, Injection moulding, Circular economy, Digitalisation, Additive Manufacturing|
Eight days, 3037 exhibitors from 60 countries, 176,000 trade visitors from 157 nations: K 2022, which ended in Düsseldorf on 26 October 2022, showed...
Fairs and exhibitions, Circular economy, Additive Manufacturing, Digitalisation|
At K 2022, the Institute for Plastics Processing in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen University (IKV) will show three processes in operation: a batch...
From material selection and replication to metrological characterization and the optical system: The Aachen Polymer Optics Days conference on 1 and 2...
You can now register for the 31st International Colloquium Plastics Technology, which will take place on 7 and 8 September 2022. Registration for the...
The start-up IonKraft, which has its roots in IKV's plasma technology working group, has been awarded 1st place in the RWTH Innovation Award 2021. The...
To achieve a global circular economy, recycling and digitalisation must go hand in hand. Linking the two is also the core of the R-Cycle initiative,...
Dr.-Ing. Peter Schneider, who successfully completed his doctorate at IKV in December 2019, was awarded for his dissertation “Thermoplastic coating of...
International Symposium on Plastics Technology, Colloquium|
Instead of in March, IKV will invite plastics experts from around the world to network personally on 7 - 8 September 2022 in Aachen. The International...
The Stiftung Industrieforschung (Industrial Research Foundation) awards up to 16 scholarships annually to particularly qualified students who wish to...
On 4 November 2021, Professor Christian Hopman welcomed the members of the Scientific Working Group of University Professors of Plastics Engineering...
Green hydrogen is a key technology for achieving climate goals. For the systematic analysis of existing applications and the identification of future...
Recycling, Analysis and testing of plastics, Circular economy, Damage analysis, Fairs and exhibitions, Mechanical testing, Microscopic analysis, Physical analysis, Rheological analysis, Spectroscopy, Thermal analysis|
The Centre for Analysis and Testing of Plastics (KAP) at IKV presented its service portfolio at the Polymer Testing World Expo 2021, Europe's leading...
After the last Technical Advisory Group Meetings in 2020 had to be held in a digital format due to Covid-19, this year we can return to normality and...
The International Symposium on Plastics Technology will take place on 14 and 15 March 2022 at the Eurogress Aachen. For the first time, the Symposium...
IKV not only trains the next generation of engineers, but is also regularly involved in the training of qualified specialists – in plastics testing,...
What exactly do we mean by the term plastics, what properties do they have and what does a plastics engineer do? These and many other questions were...
The aim of the annual Technical Advisory Group meetings is to provide a platform for members of the IKV Sponsors’ Association and the IKV scientists...
The Georg Menges Prize, which is awarded for outstanding commitment in the interplay between research and industry, has been won in 2020 by Dr. Markus...
From 8 - 11 September 2020, the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) will, for the first time, stage the 30th Colloquium Plastics Technology in a...
Rubber technology, Medical engineering, Mould technology|
IKV is supporting the humanitarian project PV1000 being carried out by members and partners of RWTH Aachen University by producing complex components...
Within a very short space of time, IKV succeeded in setting up a complete production chain for face shields. The face shields were distributed free of...
In the project "PECVD gas barrier coating of reusable PET bottles", which is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), IKV is working together...
Following the finalisation of a major consortial project led by the Aachen Center for Integrative Light-weight Production (AZL) and the Institute for...
Everything revolves around composite materials at CE 2019 - at the 14th edition of the European trade fair at the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre from 10...
International scientists from all areas of polymer processing met from 26 to 30 May 2019 in Çeşme-Izmir, Turkey, to discuss the latest developments at...
Some 300 companies, research institutes and cooperation networks from Germany came together on 9 May in Berlin-Pankow for the Innovation Day of SMEs...
Jonas Müller, scientific assistant at IKV, was awarded the prize for his Master's thesis "Analytical and numerical investigation of damage development...
The IKV is cooperating with the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) to research the use of plasma polymer...
The decision of the international committee of experts on the funding of the excellence cluster applications submitted by RWTH Aachen University has...
In August 2018, Professor Ulrich Rüdiger became the new rector of RWTH Aachen University in succession to Professor Schmachtenberg. Born in Helmstedt...
This year's IKV students' excursion (StudEx), which took place from 22-25 May, provided a particularly interesting insight into various aspects of the...
Additive Manufacturing, Internationalisation, Fairs and exhibitions|
Under the lead topic "Integrated Industry – Connect & Collaborate", the world's largest industrial trade fair, "Hannover Messe", opens its doors from...
A consortium of international companies joined forces to drive the future of Sheet Molding Compound (SMC). The companies will kick off a joint Market...
Composites, Fairs and exhibitions, Lightweight technologies, Internationalisierung|
COMPOSITES EUROPE is established as an international business platform for the composite industry. It takes place in Stuttgart from 21- 23 September...
IKV is carrying out research into a new approach for the production of graphite-filled polypropylene compounds. The aim is to improve the mechanical...
The Montan University of Leoben in Austria has awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Georg Menges, the former head of the Institute of Plastics...
