Scale Up

Leuna – November 05, 2026 -- The Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes (CBP) is giving companies access to a multi-purpose pilot plant and to its site infrastructure for customer-owned demonstration plants. Firms can test chemical processes under near-industrial conditions without building a costly facility of their own.

The center targets the gap between laboratory results and industrial production. The gap is widest for processes that use CO2 or renewable resources as feedstock, where suitable test infrastructure is often missing. CBP's Dr. Holger Wondraczek says the core challenge lies less in developing new technologies than in proving they work reliably and economically at industrial scale.