Tag: 2025

What does industrial injection molding actually look like in practice? We found answers during our excursion to Brose in Coburg! The LKT organized an insightful company visit for students from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a focus on plastics engineering, to one of the leading au...

We took part in the Innovation Day (#innotag2025) for SMEs organized by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie! We presented research results on the indirect additive manufacturing of metal components in filament-based additive manufacturing for various applications in plastic injection...

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Drummer, head of Institute of Polymer Technology, was recently awarded as a “Highly Ranked Scholar” in polymer engineering by Scholar GPS, recognizing his scientific achievements. For this ranking, the scientific performance of the last 5 years was evaluat...

For 12 years, the Collaborative Research Center 814 - Additive Manufacturing at FAU was dedicated to additive manufacturing with polymers and metals. The numerous innovations and findings from the CRC's diverse research areas have now been summarized in a book: In the open access book “Progress in P...

🌍 Welcome to our exchange students from Polytech, University of Burgundy! 🎉 We are thrilled to welcome four talented exchange students from France, who will be spending the next four months at LKT to conduct research on cutting-edge topics in polymer technology. 🚀 Their research projects include ...

Last week, the seminar on “failure analysis of polymer parts” took place at LKT – a great success! 🎉 Failure analysis is of great importance to understand the causes of material defects and to implement preventive measures. The methods used are extremely diverse: from microscopic and thermal to c...

Together with a group of polymer engineering students at FAU, we had the incredible opportunity to visit the adidas innovation forge! 🚀 We delved deep into the development process and gained insights into the determination of key parameters for the mechanical design of sporting goods. 🏃 From the ...