Sustainable and resilient plastics: New CD Laboratory

Polymer pipes are very often used in modern infrastructure, for example in gas or drinking water and wastewater transport: Producing these important pipe systems from recycled materials such as polypropylene in the future would therefore be an important step towards sustainability. However, in-depth basic research is still required to achieve the optimum balance between this sustainability and familiar functionality: Head of Laboratory Florian Arbeiter and his team, supported by commercial partners Borealis AG, POLOPLAST GmbH & Co KG and PIPELIFE Austria GmbH & Co KG, are therefore dedicated to closing gaps in materials science knowledge in the field of polypropylene.