Joint projects

In total, 26 projects have been supported as part of the program “r+Impuls – innovative technologies for resource efficiency – impulses for industrial resource efficiency” in different time periods.


  • aha

    Hardfacing or cladding with alternative materials

  • Circular Packaging

    Demonstration plant to recycle post-consumer packaging and combined waste into clean raw materials for high-quality packaging materials

  • DreamCompoundConti

    Resource-efficient process to produce a new high-performance thermoplastic

  • DreamResourceConti

    Resource-efficient production of CO₂-containing surface-active materials

  • Eco-Pump-Drive

    Developing innovative circulating pumps for heating, air conditioning, drinking water and solar cycles that conserve resources and energy

  • ecoFluor

    Innovative and environmentally-friendly cleaning process based on fluorine (F2) as a substitute for NF3 and PFCs in the semiconductor industry

  • EKALGU

    Automated injection system for lime-based desulphurization and alloy adjustment of cast iron

  • EZiRec

    Efficient recycling of tin from waste products of PCB manufacturing

  • FCycle

    Planning, construction and operation of a demonstration plant to recycle acids containing HF

  • GoldRecApp

    Pilot installation for the return of precious metals into the economic cycle using innovative biotechnological process engineering

  • HERA

    High-Efficiency-Rework-Apparatus

  • iCycle

    Recovery of metals and energy from residues of electronic scrap processing

  • IMPROVE

    Application development of innovative power electronics to optimize the use of raw materials and energy in circulating pumps

  • IVAN

    Constructing and testing systems to produce contact materials with reduced silver content for low-voltage technology using innovative connection and construction technology

  • KOMPASS

    Continuous oil and metal recovery process system for sludge and shavings

  • KONDEOS

    Plant for defined metal oxide conditioning of electric furnace slags for the production of ecological building materials and marketable metal fractions

  • MAREMO

    Material-efficient lightweight construction for resource-efficient mobility

  • PLUS

    Pilot plant for laser-assisted sorting of special alloys

  • PowdeR²eSint

    Development of an efficient cycle of residual plastic powder from the laser sintering process

  • Precious metal adsorbers

    Recovering precious metals from the effluents of the metal processing industry using textile adsorbers

  • Production Dreams

    Developing continuous process steps to scale up the production of polyether carbonate polyurethane with covalently bound carbon dioxide

  • PUMOCON

    Resource optimization through system integration of pump, pump drive and control system

  • Re-Mining

    Plant to recover valuable materials from sulfidic tailings and their environmentally-compatible remediation

  • ReeL

    Resource-efficient production of leather chemicals

  • Schmelzinjekt-II

    Complete recycling of filter dust containing zinc using melt bath injectionecyclability of the mineral fractions generated

  • STRATEGO

    Construction and operation of a plant to process the bottom ash from municipal solid waste incineration to maximize the recovery of strategic metals while optimizing the recyclability of the mineral fractions generated