Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung

The focus of the IKV is the integrative view of product development in the material, construction and processing sectors, in particular in plastics and rubber.

The Zentrum für Kunststoffanalyse und Prüfung (KAP) (English: Center for Plastics Analysis and Testing) at the IKV supports and advises scientific departments and is available as a service for the industry to solve problems.

Since 1960, the institute has been cooperating with the Gewerbeförderungsanstalt (GFA, English: commercial development agency) in the training center of the Handwerkskammer Aachen [de] (HWK), which served and was certified as a training center for plastics technology for both the IKV and the Deutscher Verband für Schweißtechnik [de] (DVS) and the Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW).

[3] On the initiative of the incumbent HWK President Anton Immendorf [de], this was transferred in 1983 to the Berufsbildungs- und Gewerbeförderungseinrichtung (BGE) in Aachen's Tempelhofer Straße.

Individual projects, but also those within the framework of joint industrial research [de] often lead to high-quality product ideas and developments, which, in the sense of the desired technology transfer, benefit not only larger, but foremost small and medium-sized enterprises.