New Materials Cluster
Materials for the future - made in Bavaria
Bavaria is an international leader in "new materials" and "intelligent production" and has the best prerequisites to continue to play a leading role in the future. Around one million employees in 4,000 companies work in sectors that rely on innovations in the field of materials - from vehicle construction to wind turbines. The Bavarian New Materials Cluster aims to further boost the competitiveness of the Bavarian economy and accelerate growth.
"New materials" are a cross-sectional technology of great economic importance. Progress in materials development is an indispensable prerequisite for numerous product and system innovations. This applies to fiber composites, which have long been indispensable in many areas of vehicle construction and aviation, for example, as well as to technical ceramics for high-temperature lightweight construction or materials for printed electronics, which are used in OLEDs, for example.
Hand in hand for material innovation
Particularly in the field of materials, new developments require close and targeted cooperation between different technologies and sectors at an early stage. The characteristics of a component are inextricably linked to the material properties and the manufacturing process. For this reason, materials cannot be considered in isolation. Only the triad of material, process technology and design leads to successful innovations. Consequently, trusting cooperation along the process and value chains as well as cross-industry exchange are required.
The New Materials Cluster brings together companies and scientific institutes from a wide range of sectors. Today, over 500 companies and scientific institutes belong to the extensive network. Together with its stakeholders, partners and the advisory board, the New Materials Cluster analyzes technology trends, raises innovation potential in materials and processes and supports its stakeholders in finding partners for new product and project ideas. The cluster provides important impetus for new ideas, closes gaps in value chains and establishes the necessary regional, national and international networks.
Events & trade fairs
Further information
Key topics of the New Materials Cluster
- Additive manufacturing
- Lightweight construction and multi-material process chain
- Sustainability, bioeconomy and circular materials
- Digitalization
The New Materials Cluster works in seven thematic areas:
- metallic lightweight materials
- Fiber composites
- Polymer properties and processing
- Materials for large-area processable electronics
- Technical ceramics and glasses
- functionalized surfaces
- technical textiles
Our mission
"New Materials - Technologies for Innovations" - This is the guiding principle of the New Materials Cluster as an information, communication and technology platform for innovations with new materials in Bavaria. With its extensive networks, the cluster creates added value for industry, research, politics and society by
- initiating and managing networks
- targeted information and knowledge transfer
- strategy consulting for cooperative innovations
- customer-specific project support
Our goal
By bringing together various industry players and building and maintaining a sustainable network in the field of new materials, we improve the conditions for the industry in Bavaria.
We use all our energy to do this: we know our customers, partners and their needs. We interlink research and industry. We provide information, shed light on value chains and how they work. We bring suitable partners together - and thus create added value for the entire materials industry.
Annual report of the New Materials Cluster
Cluster-New-Materials-Annual-Report-2019.pdf
Cluster-New-Materials-Annual-Report-2020.pdf
Partner
We offer companies and institutes access to targeted services that meet the requirements of an open, technology- and project-oriented network.
Find out more and become a partner in our network!
Partner package with added value for the materials industry
With the partner package, the New Materials Cluster offers companies and scientific institutions a special range of services relating to innovations in the field of materials and many additional benefits. Become a partner in a strong network and secure your advantages.
Benefit from our partner package
The exclusive partner package of the New Materials Cluster offers you a wide range of benefits and opportunities relating to new materials.
- Access to the New Materials Cluster with individual contact mediation and networking by the cluster management
- Reduced participation fees for selected events of the New Materials Cluster
- Publication of your logo and short profile on our partner database at www.cluster-neuewerkstoffe.de
- Free participation in the annual partner meeting of the New Materials Cluster
- Personal specialist contacts from the Cluster management for your questions, projects or ideas
- Participation in one project identification meeting per calendar year
- Authorization to use the "Partner in CNW" logo for your own purposes, e.g. Internet, brochures
- Access to the "Expert Network Bavaria" via your personal contact in Cluster Management
- The New Materials Cluster names the cluster partners at selected cluster events
- Publication of your portrait in the Cluster New Materials annual report
- Trade fair service for company partners: Exhibition of exhibits and contact initiation by the Cluster Management at selected trade fairs that the New Materials Cluster attends as part of its own trade fair presence. Exhibits may be taken along depending on the availability of exhibition space.
- Reduced fees for one chargeable service of the Bavarian Patent Center per calendar year.
New Materials Partner Package: PLUS
With the Cluster New Materials Partner Package PLUS, we offer you the following services in addition to the BASIC package as part of a twelve-month partnership:
- Individual support in the formation of consortia for joint projects by your personal contact person
- Support with the preparation of a project outline
- Extended advice on the selection of funding programs in cooperation with the Bavarian Research and Innovation Agency
- A kick-off workshop
Become a partner in our strong network!
All information on the partner package of the New Materials Cluster.
Find out more about the partners of the New Materials Cluster in our Annual Report 2022.
Partner voices on the New Materials Cluster
With the partner package, the New Materials Cluster offers companies and scientific institutions a special range of services relating to innovations in the field of materials and many additional benefits. Become a partner in a strong network and secure your advantages.
Find out more and become a partner in our network!
Norbert Müller, Alumina Systems
For many years, we have found the employees of Bayern Innovativ to be very motivated, open-minded and always very helpful. As a medium-sized company, we always have a strong partner at our side with the New Materials Cluster. At Bayern Innovativ, innovation is not just in the name. The employees live the innovation. Thank you very much.
Norbert Müller
Marketing & Sales at Alumina Systems GmbH
Rolf Terjung, Graphite Materials GmbH
We are a member of the New Materials Cluster because we gain new impetus for our work from the extensive networking with expert partners - including through the "Innovation Coffee" online format. With Bayern Innovativ, we benefit from valuable advice on digitalization and sustainability and receive support in current, industry-relevant topics such as additive manufacturing with ceramics.
Rolf Terjung
Graphite Materials GmbH
Klaus Schneider, Rauschert Heinersdorf-Pressig GmbH
We have a successful collaboration with Bayern Innovativ: as a member of the New Materials Cluster, we receive valuable support in our project work and have access to an extensive network of competent partners.
Klaus Schneider
Head of Sales Organization, Head of Coating Division, Rauschert Heinersdorf-Pressig GmbH
Cluster management
Cluster management
Bayern Innovativ GmbH,
Organization & Marketing
Catharina Nelson,
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