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 “Circular Composite Materials and Textiles” Group.
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
