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  • Mapping Chemical Recycling in Europe: Projects, Capacities and Status / 2025

    60+ Chemical Recycling projects - 18 plants operational

    Press Release / October 20, 2025

    Interactive map by Fraunhofer shows 2.8 Mt/a planned capacity but only 0.29 Mt/a operational. Pyrolysis dominates the project pipeline (1.68 Mt/a planned), while larger gasification plants remain unbuilt. Three solvent-based/solvolysis plants deliver 27 kt/a in operation.

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  • Hillary Onyebuchi Onyishi from the Advanced Carbon Conversion Technologies department at the Fraunhofer UMSICHT institute branch in Sulzbach-Rosenberg wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic of »Investigation of factors influencing the yields and qualities of the products from the thermo-catalytic reforming process« successfully defended at the Ruhr University Bochum. The research for this took place at the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Sulzbach-Rosenberg branch.

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  • Christmas and New Year greetings from the Sulzbach-Rosenberg branch of the institute. / 2024

    Merry Christmas, stay healthy!

    News / December 16, 2024

    We would like to thank you for the good cooperation over the past year and for the trust you have placed in us.

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  • Research project / 2024

    Wood firing systems with up to 80% less NOx emissions

    Press Release / November 19, 2024

    Together with project partner Endress Holzfeuerungsanlagen, Fraunhofer researchers have developed a new type of firing technology that can reduce NOx emissions by up to 80 percent. This means that future limit values can also be reliably complied with.

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