The 8th symposium on new developments in the plastics industry was organised by Ostfalia (Prof Dr Achim Schmiemann) and SKZ Das Kunststoff-Zentrum (Dr Ing Marco Thornagel).
From the integrative cross-sectional project implementation of open network structures in regional innovation systems, Torben Quickert (Institute for Tourism and Regional Research) led a survey of conference participants on innovations and networks.

Dennis Düerkop (Institute for Recycling) gave a presentation about the structure of modified polystyrene membranes for the vanadium-based Redox-Flow battery.Please edit the text.