Situation
• New optical and functional requirements for coatings
• Fast innovation progress in the development of substrates
  e. g. new steel grades
• Increasing costs of energy and resources
• High costs for disposal

BFI solution
• Process optimization for savings of resources and energy
  (e. g. extension of lifetime, examination of fluid dynamics
  pulse plating) in surface processing
• Recovery of precious materials from waste water and residues
  (e. g. metals, particles and acids)
• Development of measuring methods for continuous
  quality control of process baths
  (e. g. online-analysis of metal and and acid concentration
  in process baths)
• Design of effluent free manufacture, treatment of process baths and
  waste water
• Interdisciplinary cooperation with partners from industry
  and research for the implementation of innovative
  technology in surface processing (Network NOVOTEC and
  Forschungsagenda Oberfläche)
• Process optimization of the pre-treatment of metal surfaces
  (degreasing, pickling, brushing)

Services and equipment
• Plants at laboratory scale for the determination of optimal
  process parameters
• Plants at technical scale for process development
• Chemical laboratories, chemical analysis
• Mobile experimental and analytic laboratories for experiments on site
• Simulation tools (fluid dynamics)