Press releases

Pfinztal, Germany, September 24, 2024 – The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal, Germany, will investigate the Proxxima™ resin system developed by Exxon Mobil Corp. subsidiary Materia Inc. over the next few years on behalf of the company and explore possibilities for industrial applications.

Pfinztal, Germany - July 12, 2024 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT congratulates the Dutch company Aerospace Propulsion Products (APP), as part of the Ariane Group, on the successful first launch of the Ariane 6 rocket on the evening of July 9th, 2024 from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. Fraunhofer ICT supplied phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate as a fuel to ignite the liquid propellant.

Landshut, Germany – Over three years of research, the consortium of the EU project HyFlow has successfully developed a highly efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective hybrid energy storage system (HESS) that can meet high energy and power demands. The researchers achieved this by combining a high-performance vanadium redox flow battery with a supercapacitor with water-based electrolytes.