Lightweight Campus Johannstadt

• Visit us virtually: 360° tour of the lightweight campus

The Lightweight Campus is located in the district Dresden-Johannstadt. In additon to the office building  several test centres as the Lightweight Structures Innovation Centre (LIZ), the Polymer Application Centre (KAZ) and the Process Development Centre (PEZ) are located at the Lightweight Campus.

ILK main site

• Head office
• Offices
• Conference rooms
• Material physics laboratories
• Tribological testing complex
• Acoustics testing centre

LIZ - Leichtbau-Innovationszentrum (Lightweight Structures Innovation Centre)

• Test facilities for large structures (passenger/commercial/railway vehicles)
• Material mechanics laboratories
• Drop test tower (27 m, impact floor 2,5 m × 2,5 m)
• CAE training and engineering centre

KAZ - Kunststoff-Anwendungszentrum (Polymer Application Centre)

• Manufacturing hall for technology demonstrators and prototypes
• High-speed radial braiding machine centre
• High-performance autoclaves
• 5-axes winding machine
• Resin-transfer moulding application centre
• High-speed rotor test rigs

PEZ - Prozess-Entwicklungszentrum (Process Development Centre)

• Fully automated process lines with infrared heater in combination with:
  - Multifunction quick-stroke press
  - LFT extruder
  - 2-component injection moulding machine
• Testing center for injection and compression moulding
• Extrusion and pultrution machines
• LFI plant with shuttle mould carrier
• PUR equipment for spray impregnation, wet moulding and cavity foam filling
• High pressure RTM metering machines for processing of epoxy and polyurethane resins