Fraunhofer Institutes

We offer technology that pays!

Our know-how covers technical innovations in the fields of environmental, material, process and energy technology. Our objective is the advancement of sustainable economies, environmentally friendly technologies and innovative approaches. Our wish: to improve the standard of living and to promote the innovation capacity of the national economy.

Our customers are industrial enterprises, service companies and public authorities. Together with them Fraunhofer UMSICHT develops and researches the latest know-how and transfers it into industrial applications and marketable products.

Eight specialized business units represent the precisely tailored combination of products and R&D services responding to today’s challenges of the market segments addressed. Starting from the project idea over proposal procedures to the development and market introduction, Fraunhofer UMSICHT offers its clients R&D expertise and thus provides them with competitive benefits and opens up international markets for them.

As one of the 60 institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft we are part of a world-wide network and promote international cooperation. Fraunhofer is the largest organization for applied research in Europe.