13–16 May 2013 · Cologne

Aircleaning tiles for kitchens and bathrooms, light-transmissive wood for home use or concrete surfaces with touchscreen function: the complexity of the performance criteria which nowadays are required of materials and products for the design of furniture or interior fittings require more and more frequently material solutions ...

5–7 February 2013 · London

Future Thinking will highlight the thinking that goes into the development and selection of materials for architecture and design and is a hugely popular display of emerging materials and technology influencing the work of architects & designers ...

13 September 2012 · Frankfurt

Hessen is on the way to a new energy era. With the conference "Materials for New Energies", the Hessen-Nanotech action line of the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Transport and Regional Development is accelerating the technology transfer into marketable products for the energy sector ...

21 June 2012 · dOCUMENTA(13) · Kassel

The world of materials is in a state of upheaval. On the occasion of DOCUMENTA 13, HAUTE INNOVATION implemented the "Materials in Progress 2012" forum with an accompanying exhibition in the impressive atmosphere of an old passenger ship "IM-PORT / EX-PORT" ...

21–25 February 2012 · Berlin

Lightweight panels using bamboo rings, ultrasonically welded wood, insulation boards made of biomass of cattail plant or comb structures for high-strength lightweight structures: Increasingly, finding innovative sustainable building materials for the architecture ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...