JOANNEUM RESEARCH (“The innovation company”) is a business-oriented non-university research company for knowledge and technology transfer in Styria, Austria. JOANNEUM actively cooperates with business, industry and the public sector on application-oriented research and development projects. 

Laser and Plasma Processing (LPP) group of JOANNEUM is the original developer of laser welding processes for the joining of various kinds of alloys even before laser welding was adopted into the regional automotive supplying tier 1 industries. JOANNEUM owns the first successful machine for an economical combination of L-DED (laser directed energy deposition) and post-processing. Beside component repair, the company is using this technology for additive manufacturing of multi-material components.  

JOANNEUM is highly invested in plasma-based coating processes and nanomaterial synthesis being able to perform in atmospheric pressure, in vacuum, at low temperatures (<40 °C), as well as in sol-gel coatings. JOANNEUM is also developing chemical and biological sensors, as well as electronics and instrumentation of measurement systems, i.e. JOANNEUM has been successfully advancing measurement system based on electrospun ZnO-doped nano-fibers. The piezoelectric materials are now being continuously miniaturized under the brand PyzoFlex®, a new sensor technology with novel sensory function to detect pressure and temperature changes as well as structure borne sound.  

In SUSTAINair, the JOANNEUM RESEARCH will work on laser welding and L-DED technologies for novel Al- and Ti-based alloys as well as production technologies based upon plasma-processes and electro-spinning for the optimized deposition of nanofibers for piezo-electric sensors.