On September 24, TU Berlin and the Berlin Senate gave green light for the Chemical Invention Factory (CIF) at its groundbreaking ceremony. The CIF will be Europe's largest laboratory infrastructure for transfer and pre-start-up teams in green chemistry. It is intended to make a significant contribution to further advancing the transfer of innovations from science into green applications in the field of materials chemistry. The CIF is being financed with funds from the TU Berlin (approx. 13 million euros) and the State of Berlin (approx. seven million euros) and is to be built on the TU Berlin's Charlottenburg campus on Marchstraße by 2027.
In future, chemistry must be green, sustainable and ressource-saving. "Green chemistry" promotes sustainable processes and materials that reduce environmental impact. Berlin plays an important role in this as one of Europe's leading research and innovation hubs. Universities, start-ups, and industry partners work together here on environmentally friendly technologies.
The Chemical Invention Factory is the result of an initiative by the UniSysCat Cluster of Excellence. We are very delighted to see the big green chemistry project CIF taking shape now. We're looking forward to all green chemistry projects, inventions, ideas and innovations being made in the new building. There's so much to come: As Prof. John Warner, namesake of the CIF and honorary professor of green chemistry at the TU Berlin, says: 70 percent of the technologies needed to transform chemistry have not yet been invented!