Europe’s high-tech centre for applied materials technology is the Wolfgang Industrial Park located in “Materials Valley” in the Frankfurt-Rhine-Main economic area in Germany. Here is where surface technology, nano- and micro technology are to be found. The largest research location of leading international companies covers 82 hectares and employs 4,500 persons, 1,300 of them in R&D. A campus atmosphere with short point-to-point distances and information exchange in regular innovation forums facilitate collaboration.

The Evonik subsidiary Industriepark Wolfgang GmbH offers a professional infrastructure for one-site companies and those located in the region. The Industrial Park operator provides services in the areas of engineering, personal administration, and management such as plant supervision and IT services, environmental protection and logistics, including authority management, facility management, supplies and disposal. The Technical Service Centre constructs and supervises standard and specialty plants, special equipment, apparatuses and process control systems.

The Industrial Park has been open to enterprises active in materials sciences and speciality chemicals and other sectors since the year 2000. Plots of 2,500 square meters and larger are available on a leasehold basis. In Hanau-Wolfgang market know-how and customer proximity, research and applications, and professional innovation management join forces. “Wolfgang Industrial Park is Europe’s sole high-tech location with a complete infrastructure for materials sciences that is open for investors”.