Zoom imageINVITE Managing Director Dr. Thomas Bieringer holding the core component of a modular production container.
The factory of the future will combine flexible and efficient production concepts that conserve resources. Such production concepts are to be developed and tested at the new INVITE research center located in the Leverkusen Chempark and operated by Bayer MaterialScience and TU Dortmund University. “INVITE” stands for innovations, visions and technologies. Managing Director Dr. Thomas Bieringer used the occasion of the opening to announce an innovative pharmaceutical production concept in which containerized modules are connected in series like building blocks.
Speaking before more than 150 invited guests from the industrial, political and scientific communities at the start of the event, Dr. Wolfgang Plischke, Bayer Management Board member responsible for Innovation, Technology and Environment, said: “The only way we can achieve significant further improvements in production processes from the sustainability and resource conservation perspective is by using completely new technologies.”
The results of the research projects will not only be tested for feasibility, however. They will also benefit students and graduates participating in vocational training and continuing education programs, who will be able to take a first-hand look at world-class science and research during future visits to the INVITE research center.