Launch of the ReEnAdd research project: increasing energy efficiency and recycling through innovative additives

KOMOS is launching the ReEnAdd research project together with project partners in May 2025 with the aim of making production processes in plastics forming more energy- and resource-efficient and recycling rejects in the best possible way.

Project start and objectives

We are deligh­ted to announ­ce the offi­ci­al launch of our new rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment pro­ject ReE­n­Add to be announ­ced.
The pro­ject peri­od runs from 01.05.2025 until 30.04.2027.

Sub­ject of the pro­ject:
Increased ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy & recy­cling through inno­va­ti­ve addi­ti­ve sys­tems

The pro­ject ReE­n­Add makes it pos­si­ble through tar­ge­ted Mate­ri­al inno­va­ti­on and Pro­cess opti­miza­ti­onmini­mi­ze ener­gy con­sump­ti­on and the use of resour­ces in pla­s­tics pro­ces­sing. The­se two approa­ches make a signi­fi­cant con­tri­bu­ti­on to incre­asing the com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness of modern pro­duc­tion tech­no­lo­gies.

Three focal points of the project

1. mate­ri­al inno­va­ti­on & pro­cess opti­miza­ti­on
The use of inno­va­ti­ve addi­ti­ve sys­tems and opti­mi­zed pro­ces­ses redu­ces both ener­gy con­sump­ti­on and the need for raw mate­ri­als. This means that pro­duc­tion pro­ces­ses can be made more effi­ci­ent, more sta­ble and more sus­tainable.

2. recy­cling and reu­se
A core objec­ti­ve is the tar­ge­ted Mate­ri­al clus­te­ring — i.e. the sys­te­ma­tic grou­ping of com­pa­ti­ble mate­ri­als. As a result, start-up was­te and rejects can be reu­sed in a tar­ge­ted man­ner and valuable raw mate­ri­als can be kept in the pro­duc­tion cycle. This signi­fi­cant­ly redu­ces the use of resour­ces and streng­thens the cir­cu­lar eco­no­my.

3. CO₂ foot­print recor­ding
With the Soft­ware for recor­ding the CO₂ foot­print The aim is to iden­ti­fy effi­ci­ent and qua­li­ty-assu­ring pro­cess para­me­ters for the pri­ma­ry mol­ding pro­cess of pla­s­tics — inclu­ding the rele­vant peri­pherals — in the future.
The result: a data-based foun­da­ti­on for sus­tainable pro­duc­tion decis­i­ons.

Significance for KOMOS and the Thuringia region

This inte­gra­ted approach means that ReE­n­Add not only eco­lo­gi­cal, but also tech­no­lo­gi­cal and eco­no­mic impul­ses for KOMOS, the indus­try and Thu­rin­gia as a loca­ti­on for inno­va­ti­on.
The pro­ject streng­thens KOMOS’ cla­im to com­bi­ne inno­va­ti­on and respon­si­bi­li­ty — for a future that con­ser­ves resour­ces.

We would like to express­ly thank the spon­sors, wit­hout who­se sup­port this pro­ject would not have been pos­si­ble:


“Co-finan­ced by the Euro­pean Uni­on”
“Euro­pe streng­thens. Thu­rin­gia is gro­wing.”
“Free Sta­te of Thu­rin­gia”

Pro­ject peri­od: 01.05.2025 — 30.04.2027

Fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on on the pro­ject will fol­low short­ly.