Innovative manufacturing technologies for optimizing ceramic fuel cells and electrolysis cells for a sustainable energy future
EU Project IMTEC (101295081 — HORIZON-CL4-2025-01)
The IMTEC project focuses on developing advanced, scalable, flexible, and sustainable multimaterial ceramic manufacturing platforms.
These platforms aim to enhance productivity, enable complex design freedom, and reduce costs, energy consumption, and environmental impact in the carbon-intensive ceramic manufacturing sector. IMTEC will validate its platforms through two rSOC demonstrators for hydrogen production and utilization: one for stationary SOEC/co-SOEC operations and another for SOFC mobility applications.
Quick Overview
Objectives
Developing scalable, sustainable multimaterial ceramic manufacturing platforms to boost productivity, cut costs, and reduce the environmental impact of the ceramics sector.
Technology
Using innovative thermal processing (co-debinding/co-sintering), digital twins, and topology optimization to minimize raw material waste and enable complex, near-net-shape 3D architectures.
Validation
Proving viability via two rSOC hydrogen demonstrators (stationary and mobile) and delivering three cost-effective product lines for the net-zero industry.
The IMTEC consortium partners at the Kick-off meeting on June 4th, 2026 at Fraunhofer IKTS in Dresden, Germany.