Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research The Fraunhofer WKI offers extensive technical equipment for research and development. The following equipment is mainly used for the work of the Application Center HOFZET®.
Composite materials
Production of thermosetting and thermoplastic (bio) composite materials
- Vacuum infusion facility incl. accessories
- Presses for organic sheets
- Facilities for the manual surface modification of yarns and woven fabrics as well as individual fibers
- Double-rapier weaving machine with Jacquard technology for the manufacture of single and multi-layer technical (hybrid) textiles
- Diamond sample saw
- CNC milling machine
- Manual-lever heating press
Plastics Technology Center
Extruders with throughputs of 2 to 200 kg/h
- Extruder ZE 34 incl. extensive peripherals
- Extruder ZE 42 Basic
- Extruder ZSK 18 MEGAlab
- Strand pelletizing and underwater pelletizing
Injection molding machines with 50 to 320 tonnes clamping force
- Injection molding machine KM 50-180 AX
- Injection molding machine KM 160-750 EX
- Two-component injection molding machine Arburg 720 S 3200-800/170 incl. KUKA robot (KR30 handling system)
Blow molding of hollow bodies for small series production
- Small blow molding machine with an article volume of up to approx. 10 to 40 ml
Recycling
- Roller mill Xtra2 Wanner
- Three-zone split tube furnace HZS 12/-/900E/E30 Carbolite Gero for pyrolysis
- Test sieves for fractionation
Material analysis and testing
Mechanical testing laboratory
- Universal testing machine Zwick/Roell Z100
- Universal testing machine Zwick/Roell Z020
- Tabletop test instrument Zwick/Roell Z2,5 TN zwicki-Line
- Pendulum impact testing machine Zwick/Roell HIT25P
Thermal and rheological testing laboratory with weathering
- HDT and Vicat testing system CEAST HV500 Instron
- Dynamic-mechanical analysis DMA 242 E Artemis Netzsch
- DSC 204 F1 Phoenix Netzsch
- MFR/MVR plastometer Zwick/Roell Mflow
- High-pressure capillary rheometer Rheograph 25 Göttfert
- Flow spiral
- Climate change cabinet ARS-1100 ESPEC
- UV rapid-weathering device
Imaging procedures and optical analytics
- Computer tomograph Procon X-Ray CT-AlphaDuo for the imaging of samples up to 500 mm in diameter incl. in situ CT for e.g. 4-point bending test
- Diverse light-optical microscopes
- Two scanning electron microscopes incl. EDX for elemental analysis, linescans and mapping
- 3D digital microscope VHX 5000 Keyence
- Hot stage microscope Axio Scope.A1 Zeiss
- Particle analytics, fiber analytics and characterization via Fibershape (size distribution, L/D ratio, dust proportion)
- Color and gloss measurement device spectro-guide sphere gloss BYK-Gardner GmbH
Additional testing equipment
- Contact angle measuring device and tensiometer DCAT 21
- Moisture determination with Aquatrac + and Aquatrac-3E
- Density determination with electronic analysis scales EL204/01
- Microtome
- FTIR-Spectrometer TENSOR II
