Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZMNew edition: Raw materials for future technologies 2025
The Fraunhofer institutes ISI and IZM are working on the fourth edition of the study "Raw Materials for Future Technologies" by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), commissioned by the German Raw Materials Agency (DERA). Fraunhofer IZM was also involved in the last two studies. The project analyzes the expected development of new industrial technologies to understand use cases and resulting demand for raw materials. Additionally, the potential for recycling, resource efficiency issues, and substitutes for each technology are examined to determine how demand may change in the future.
Three socioeconomic scenarios are considered to assess how future industrial use of innovative technologies will affect the demand for raw materials—especially those on which these innovations strongly depend. A total of 33 technologies are presented. Fraunhofer IZM is investigating seven of them.