The German Environment Ministry presents groundbreaking industrial projects at IndustrialGreenTech. It is promoting processes that save energy and resources through its environment innovation program.
A testing center for smart grids and electromobility is receiving €4.5 million. A testing station for wind turbine blades is allotted €12 million. There are €200 million set aside for researching and developing energy storage technologies... Research funding in Germany is no longer just the domain of the Education and Research Ministry (BMBF). The Environment Ministry (BMU) is also strongly committed to research that has an environmental purpose.
The research needs identified by the BMU are described in the medium-term research blueprint and set out in the annual environmental research plan (UFOPLAN). The 2012 UFOPLAN published in January covers 19 categories, including resource efficiency and waste management, environmental product policy, climate protection, air quality monitoring and sustainable mobility.
The BMU also supports promising industrial projects. Its German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment (IKU) is awarded annually to ideas and innovations "made in Germany" that contribute to environmental protection and promote the national economy. In 2011 the IKU was awarded to, among others, a cement production process that protects the climate and resources, a mini biogas plant for use in Africa and green technology for shaping metal support rings in sealing elements.
The BMU's environmental innovation program has a similar aim, and subsidizes the initial commercial use of an environmentally friendly technology. To be accepted into the environmental innovation program, a project must move beyond the current state of technology and set an example – pointing the way to the future. Small and medium-sized companies have preference for the subsidies. DEUSA International GmbH in Bleicherode was recently granted nearly €2 million from the environment innovation program. Its pilot project saves natural gas through the gasification of high calorific plastic waste. Fluoron in Ulm is introducing a new type of steam sterilizer with heat exchangers using €90,000 from the environment innovation program. The company produces high-purity bio materials for retinal surgery. It can save distance heating, reduce CO2 emissions and decrease water consumption by up to 96 percent with this new technology.
The BMU provides an overview of its research and industry promotion program at IndustrialGreenTech 2012 in Hall 26. The new trade show is held under the patronage of German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and provides a platform for environmental technologies along the entire industrial value chain.
Leading Trade Fair for Environmental Technology
Sustainable solutions to optimize the efficient use of energy and materials across the production chain
Overview of special displays and events at IndustrialGreenTec
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