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A Powerful Cluster

Dr. Wolfgang Weber, Managing Director of ifp Institute for Having started operations on Richard-Willstätter-Straße as
Product Quality, enthuses over the convenient location: little ago as 2015, the BAM is planning to expand as well.
The local train is only a five-minutes’ walk away. By car, the On more than 5,000 square metres of floor space, the new
motorway can be reached within five minutes, the airport building will house not only technologically most advanced
within 15 minutes. In Weber’s institute, 300 experts con- laboratories and engineering rooms, but also a metal-free
duct ingredient analyses on behalf of food manufacturers, cleanroom for materials research unique throughout
caterers and pharmaceutical companies across the globe. Europe. Moreover, in the future BAM intends to use an
area of a total of 3,217 square metres on Ernst-Ruska-Ufer
The ifp first moved to Adlershof a decade ago. In the autumn adjoining their present premises. The plot in question
of 2017, the institute’s third block on Wagner-Régeny-Straße will be purchased by the Bundesanstalt für Immobilien-
was completed, adding an additional 6,675 square metres of aufgaben and is designed for a BAM annex building to be
extra floor space allowing for more laboratories, more possi- erected in the medium term.
bilities, more jobs. Dr. Weber explains: “As a location, Adlers-
hof offers the best conditions for growth and new business
activities.” A food engineer himself, Weber had founded the
original institute in Berlin-Steglitz in 2004, soon realising
the need to expand. Parts of the staff were moved to Adlers-
hof before the entire institute eventually followed in 2015.
ifp Institut für Produktqualität: Wagner-Régeny-Straße

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