LUM GmbH moves into new headquarters in Berlin-Adlershof

LUM GmbH is market leader in innovative analysers for direct and accelerated stability analysis and particle characterization of dispersions. Following the approved growth strategy, with the relocation in 2012 a further important step forward is taken, now allowing LUM to offer customer solutions in the field of material testing, too. Prof. Dr. Lerche, Managing Director of LUM GmbH, explains:„After 18 years in the Innovation and Business... [more]

Adlershof's know how for achieving South Africa's climate objectives

Renewable Energy Project in Durban with the involvement of WISTA-MANAGEMENT

1 Purpose The report provides the Executive Committee with a summary of the Renewable Energy Development Hub (RED Hub-KZN) that is being proposed for development in eThekwini Municipal Area. 2 Synopsis The REDHub-KZN Project is a private initiative by the German based company IKD-International and ARDOR SA Limited supported by WISTA-Adlershof, City of Science, Technology and Media, the most innovative Techno Hub in Europe, leading German... [more]

STEP Award 2012

New Deadline: August 10th

The STEP Award is a competition designed to recognize innovative growth companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The initiators, Infraserv Höchst and F.A.Z.-Institut Innovation Projects, are pursuing the same goal together with numerous sponsors and partners of the competition: giving companies an important boost in their growth phase. The STEP Award focuses on pharmaceutics, chemistry, life sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology, medical... [more]

Discover the places of Berlin’s future

New tours through Adlershof, Schöneweide, Tempelhof, BER

As of summer 2012 Adlershof con.vent offers half/full day combination tours. Those tours are dealing with the question how to develop past airports and industrial areas to successful locations. The following tours are new to offer: Adlershof-Schöneweide: Successful structural change in the southeast in BerlinAdlershof-BER-Schöneweide: The Airport area on the way to a high-tech locationAdlershof-Tempelhof: Development past airports high tech... [more]

New business segment

Seminars and workshops dealing with location development and promotion of economics development

As of summer 2012 Adlershof con.vent offers all-day or longer seminars and workshops about successful location development and promotion of economics development using the best practise example Adlershof. After an introduction and a location tour, aspects of the successful cooperation between science and industry, the cluster structure, marketing and management of this location will be illuminated. Visitors will gain a deeper insight into the... [more]

New locations for big events

With more than 600 people

Adlershof con.vent offers now for conferences, road shows, dinners, parties, trade shows with more than 600 people new ideal locations which always offer a special flair and atmosphere. We look forward to hearing from you! [more]

Global Solar Energy Addresses Challenging EU Solar Market Conditions

Global Solar Energy, Inc. a leading manufacturer of flexible solar technology, announced today that the German executive team applied for insolvency proceedings at Global Solar’s wholly owned German subsidiary, Global Solar Energy Deutschland GmbH (GSED). Global Solar is the leading commercial-scale producer of flexible, high-efficiency Copper Indium Gallium DiSelenide (CIGS) solar products and will continue to produce all product lines at its... [more]

Scienion new collaboration

Scienion’s sciFLEXARRAYER S11 to be used by Courtagen for the production of QPDx® Biochips

SCIENION US, Inc. today announced that Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc. – a privately held life sciences company that provides innovative proteomic and genomic products and services to the life sciences industry – will use SCIENION’s sciFLEXARRAYER technology to produce innovative biochips for multiplex immunoassays, and collaborate with Scienion to meet future manufacturing and market needs.“With its novel protein immunoassay platform, QPDx®... [more]

SOLON Presents Energy Storage and Innovative Solutions for Industrial Roofs

Intersolar 2012

The solar energy company SOLON is presenting two new products at this year’s Intersolar Europe trade fair: the SOLiberty storage system and the SOLbond Seam, a photovoltaic system for commercial and industrial roofs. Intersolar Europe is the world’s largest trade fair for the solar industry and is being held in Munich from June 13 to 15. The SOLON SOLiberty storage system enables owners of photovoltaic power systems to cover up to 70% of their... [more]

SOLON Supplies 7.5 MW of Solar Modules to Greece

Greek photovoltaic market is growing

The solar company SOLON has agreed to supply 7.5 megawatts (MW) of solar modules to the Greek planning company Arxikon. These monocrystalline solar modules will be used in a number of projects throughout Greece which are scheduled for grid connection in July and August.  Approximately 30,000 SOLON Black 220/16 and 230/07 modules manufactured in Berlin and Greifswald, Germany will be mounted on solar power plants in the northern Greek... [more]

Synthetic DNA in the fight against product piracy

Marcus Weichert, Managing Director of the Adlershof company SecuTech Europe GmbH, is all too aware of the threat posed by product piracy to authorities and enterprises. His company has developed a biomolecular marker that provides product protection on the basis of synthesised DNA codes.A leader in DNA security marking and detection technologies, Weichert’s company owns over 120 patents in over twenty patent families. One of its flagships is the... [more]

Find, measure, identify

Analytical methods made in Adlershof measure contaminant concentrations in potentially explosive environments and identify antibodies for improved tumour therapy.No sparking, no high temperatures, no static buildup – the devices that Analytical Control Instruments (ACI) develops and produces in Adlershof must be especially safe and reliable if they are to measure the concentration of contaminants in potentially explosive environments. Workplaces... [more]

By order of the customer

The work of a service provider poses particular challenges for research oriented companies in Adlershof. One specialist in contract research for pharmaceutical companies is ASCA GmbH, whereas ifp Institut für Produktqualität GmbH performs analyses for the food sectors.When Wolfgang Weber founded ifp GmbH in 2004, he was pursuing the target of developing a test kit that could verify vitamins quickly and easily. When he saw that this product was... [more]

The custom hunt for the drugs of tomorrow

Costly clinical tests, controversial experiments on animals, and undesired side effects for patients – the development of new drugs has many obstacles to overcome. With its modern analytical methods, biotechnology is becoming ever more important for medical research as a tool for the earliest possible testing of a preparation’s side effects.Holger Wenschuh is still suffering a little from jetlag. A graduate chemist and Managing Director of the... [more]

Metamorphosis of a Technology Centre

Fifteen years ago, the Environment and Biotechnology Centre opened its doors in the Adlershof Technology Park. Although this initially attracted companies operating above all in the field of environmental analytics, the following years saw this sector undergo cleansing and concentration, also as a consequence of funding cuts. In like measure, however, a growing number of biotech companies started to discover the outstanding laboratory... [more]