Faster into market with new material

24 May 2011 · Frankfurt

With the series of events "Materials shape product", the Hessen-Nanotech action line has made users aware of the potential of new materials. In the final forum of the series on May 24, 2011, designers and architects come up with far-reaching product innovations ...

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Reactive and optical materials

27 January 2011 · Darmstadt

Material innovations of the next generation have additional qualities in addition to traditional functional aspects. For the user, the invisible qualities of applications change smarter and reactive materials expand enormously. Plastics get self-healing qualities, cracks can be closed automatically. ...

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Materials in Progress 2010

2 December 2010 · Euromold · Frankfurt

Bicycle frames made from hemp and bamboo, flexible stone for sports goods, carbon nanotubes for conductive plastics or inflated lightweight constructions from metal: These are some of the topical highlights of the “Materials in Progress 2010” conference which Euromold is using this year to react to the growing significance of materials for desgin ...

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Innovative lightweight construction for interior design, architecture and the automotive industry

18 November 2010 · Groß-Umstadt

The success of electric vehicles depends critically on whether it will make the automotive manufacturers to reduce the vehicle weight significantly or not. Above all, the plastics industry has in recent years developed, new high-strength lightweight materials, which are designed to replace the weighty metal body panels and glass panels ...

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Multifunctional materials for architects and designers

16 September 2010 · Kassel

Most building materials are old-fashioned materials and have nearly always been the companion of civilisation development. It is surprising that lately, a lot of new material developments until now, with unimagined potentials for construction, architecture and design have been discovered ...

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From material to a marketable product

24 June 2010 · Offenbach

What successful innovation processes often lacks today, is not the technological innovation in terms of functional quality, but the success and above all, fast transfer of innovation into a marketable product. For this reason, the action line Hessen-Nanotech of the Hessian Ministry for Economics, Transport and Regional Development of Hessen Agentur offer these new series of events,  ...

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