The GmbH.

  • The Institut für Membrantechnologie GmbH is an independent company established in 1991.


  • For more than 25 years, the managing directors Dr. rer. nat. Jörg Borgwardt and Dr. sc. agr. Wolf Wunderlich have been working in membrane filtration research and development, process development, system designing and plant construction for the food industry, environmental technology as well as biotechnology.


  • The company holds more than 20 patents in the fields of membrane filtration, food industry, environmental technology and biotechnology as well.

  • From initially 4 (1991) the staff increased to 10 (2002) with about 70 % of them are working in research and development.


Our fields of activity

The company concentrates to energy-saving and nonpolluting technologies of membrane filtration (MF, UF, NF, RO see above) and combination with other separation and processing technologies.

Key activities are as follows:

Our services include:

  • Complete solutions from one hand: problem analyses - customer advisory services - process development - design and construction of equipment - product introduction - supervision of and looking after equipment and systems
  • Research & development of innovative approaches
  • Process development for innovative products
  • Development and construction of testing plants, prototypes, pilot and production plants
  • Testing in our technical laboratory
  • Provision of mobile test equipment, including local testing
  • Customer advisory concerning development and introduction of new or improved methods, technologies and techniques

    Make use of the know-how of the institute

... even from liquid manure we make water !

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