Experiencing Innovation

Product innovation, open innovation and corporate venturing - these are the three cornerstones of innovation at Heraeus.

In Focus: Sustainable mobility

Sustainable mobility solutions

Sustainable mobility solutions

For many people, mobility is a basic need to participate in professional and social life. The effects of the Corona pandemic caused many people to cut back on this mobility - a sacrifice that has had a positive impact on our climate. The decreasing emissions from the transport sector have shown us: the mobility of the future must become cleaner. At the same time, many people's understanding of mobility has also changed during the pandemic. Heraeus is accompanying the mobility change with products from its Global Business Units. We are actively researching and developing solutions for sustainable mobility - from electro mobility to hydrogen propulsion.

Read more about how Heraeus is driving the mobility of the future

Discovering Innovation

High Performance Batteries

Efficient batteries as a mobility and storage solution

As of 2035, the EU Commission wants no more new vehicles with combustion engines to be registered in the European Union. Many countries are currently planning and testing e-cars as electricity storage units to stabilize the grid. E-vehicles as a mass product and as the basis for a future decentralized energy supply - both will only work with particularly efficient, safe, and powerful batteries. For example, with lithium-ion batteries whose electrodes are boosted in terms of fast charge capability, safety and driving range by a special carbon additive.

Read more about how a carbon additive works as a booster for batteries

Heraeus Innovation Expert on her role as Digital Consultant in Singapore

Singapore is a hub for Asia - the Western and Eastern worlds merge here. An ideal place for Dr. Irina Hondralis, who tackles digital challenges in Asia on-site as a digital consultant. In the third part of the Heraeus Innovation Experts series, she tells us what drew her to Singapore and which local trends are important.

Neuromodulation: Stimulating a better way of life

When conventional medicine reaches its limits, Neuromodulation can bring patients the help and relief they have been longing for. Therefore, after only a few years, Heraeus Medical Components has evolved to offer vertically integrated complete solutions as a sustainable partner to medical device manufacturers. 

Fighting COVID with the help of digitization

Digitization is also a powerful agent in the fight against the Corona virus. It not only helps in tracing infection chains, but also enables the company to meet the rising demand for urgently needed medical technology. Thanks to digital solutions, Heraeus Medical Components has succeeded in ramping up production of so-called PiCCO catheters considerably within a very short time. These are an important component of ventilators for monitoring critically ill patients.

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Innovation at a glance

Our Accelerator programme

Innovation around the world

Further information about selected Heraeus InnovationCenters:

The InnovationCenter fiftyONE offers our experts and partners a place where they can network and develop innovations together

Welcome to fiftyONE - a place where people network, where new things are created, where knowledge is digitalised and where our customers are the focus of attention. A place that does not restrict. An "Open Space for Open Minds".

Heraeus Innovation: Collaboration Hub Minneapolis
Take a look at our pilot production space: quick-turn prototyping, testing and pilot production of new products and treatment innovations

Helping medical device customers accelerate the design, development and production of medical innovations

In healthcare, speed-to-market is critical. When patient lives are at stake, the medical device industry works with special urgency to get their medical innovations from the concept stage to real-world treatments.

Because the medical device industry relies heavily on strategic outsourcing partnerships, collaboration is increasingly important for medical device manufacturers to augment their internal teams and accelerate product development. Heraeus Medical Components recently opened its state-of-the-art Collaboration Hub specifically to help medical device customers and partners get their products and innovations to market faster.

Heraeus Innovation: Collaboration Hub Minneapolis
Please take a seat: The lobby of our Collaboration Hub in Minneapolis, USA

Consolidating design-development capabilities for “same-place” collaboration

The new 6,200 square-meter facility, located in the heart of “Medical Alley” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, provides customers and partners the opportunity to work on-site or virtually with an ecosystem of Heraeus Medical Components R&D experts, including engineers, designers, materials scientists, production specialists and other technical professionals. By bringing all these critical teams and disciplines together under one roof, collaboration can be faster and more productive.

The Collaboration Hub enables customers to utilize all the needed expertise and development technologies for quick-turn prototyping, testing and pilot production of new products and treatment innovations. The facility’s design and development capabilities include:

  • Test labs
  • Clinical simulation lab
  • Training lab
  • Machining room
  • Pilot production capabilities
Heiko Specht, EVP of Innovation for Heraeus Medical Components, sees the Collaboration Hub as a game-changing accelerator for customers and partners to cultivate new ideas, materials and technologies to develop that next breakthrough innovation or treatment. He said, “I am very proud to have all the necessary disciplines under one roof. I truly believe this approach will be a difference-maker. It will help our customers get their products from concept to the real world even faster.”

In our InnovationCenter in Shanghai, Heraeus developers simulate, design and test products and prototypes for the power electronics and semiconductor industries

The Heraeus Electronics InnovationCenter in Shanghai opened its doors in 2018.

On more than 600 square meters, Heraeus developers simulate, design and test products and prototypes for the power electronics and semiconductor industry. Heraeus works with customers at an early stage of development – this supports the development process. Customers are more successful in initial development and introduce the product to the market faster.

With about 58 machines, the Heraeus InnovationCenter has extensive testing and simulation capabilities – including a two-chamber vacuum soldering furnace, a wire bonder for aluminum-copper wires, and test stations for endurance testing and X-ray inspection.

Read more about the further development of the Heraeus InnovationCenter in Shanghai in an interview with Dr. Zhang Jing, head of innovation and engineering service China

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About Innovation at Heraeus

For us, the customer is at the beginning of every innovation. With research and application centers around the world, we develop and test products together with customers on site. This enables us to make a relevant contribution to their success and competitiveness. We are convinced that joint research and development makes innovations faster and better. This is why we have extended our innovation work to external partners such as other companies, research networks and universities - and are always open to new partnerships. We offer visionaries a platform to turn their ideas into reality. We are looking for startups from various fields worldwide, operate an internal startup incubator, invest in promising ideas and invite startups to participate in our unique Advanced Materials Accelerator Program.

Do you want to work with us on the innovations of tomorrow?

On our career page you will find all open positions and further information about the Heraeus Group.

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