Chair of Wood Technology and Fiber Materials Technology at Hannover Messe 2025

The Hannover Messe, the most important international platform for all technologies related to industrial transformation, will take place from March 31 to April 4, 2025. This year, the Chair of Wood Technology and Fiber Materials Technology at TU Dresden will be represented with two projects on the topic of bioeconomy at the joint stand of Project Management Jülich and the Agency for Renewable Resources.

Visitors will be able to gain an impression of a competitive bioeconomy using real and virtual exhibits. The exhibits will include

• Biogas plants as flexible components of a regenerative energy supply
• New approaches to the use of municipal biogenic residues
• Wood-based polymer materials for vehicle construction
• Bio-based functional textiles

TUD research projects in detail

BioHOCOEX: Hop plants as a sustainable source of raw materials for plastics (contact: Sören Tech)

After the harvest, large quantities of hop plants remain unused in the fields. The BioHOCOEX project is researching how this biomass can be made usable for the plastics industry. The aim is to develop a technological processing chain suitable for industry in order to use the hop plants in plastic compounds for injection molding and extrusion applications. ATB Potsdam is providing the process engineering basis for the project with an alternative supply chain using hop bines to be preserved in a moist state. TU Dresden and TU Chemnitz are preparing the fibers into compounds with different fill levels, processing them in the plastics processes and producing the first demonstrators.

Lignowool composites: Technical wood wool as an alternative to petroleum-based plastics (contact: Dr. Sebastian Siwek)

The project is dedicated to the development of a composite material consisting of wood wool and bio-based thermoplastic fibers. The Lignowool composites are to be processed into automotive parts, in particular interior trim. The aim is to produce components with a uniform geometry and good textile processability that retain the strength typical of wood throughout the entire production and processing process. The process chain includes fibre preparation, carding, stretching, tape production and thermostabilization as well as the final composite consolidation by thermopressing.

Click here for the press release about Lignowool Composites.

Interested visitors are cordially invited to get an idea of these TUD innovations at the Hannover Messe 2025 at the joint bioeconomy stand in Hall 2, Stand A35!

Further information:
More about Hannover Messe 2025: https://www.hannovermesse.de
More about the project management organization Jülich: https://www.ptj.de/
More about the project management organization FNR: https://www.fnr.de