As an innovative and internationally recognized partner for research and development, we at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST develop sustainable products including the associated competitive and scalable production systems. Surface engineering for sustainable products and systems: Our research covers plant engineering, entire process chains of process engineering, process and manufacturing technology, right through to the consideration of entire factories. Based on the requirements of sustainability, we focus on the entire product life cycle - from the material to the process to the component and product through to recycling.

Working in interdisciplinary teams and building on our fields of technology and expertise, we offer our customers from industry and research tailor-made and sustainable solutions for various sectors, e.g. plant and mechanical engineering, tools, vehicle construction, aerospace, energy, optics, medical and pharmaceutical process engineering, environmental technology, agriculture and the food industry, the chemical industry and the digital economy. Based on a broad spectrum of expertise, technologies, processes and coating materials, we design the optimum process chain for the respective task, right through to the digital design of the entire factory.