"The ""Pro3 process engineering expertise network"" interlinks and focuses the activities of its members in basic and applied research, teaching, and application in the field of process engineering. The members of the network are:

• the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg,

• the universities of Stuttgart, Kaiserslautern and Karlsruhe, as expertise universities, and

• the international companies BASF AG, Cognis Deutschland GmbH, Degussa AG, IPF Beteiligungsgesellschaft Berndt KG, Lurgi AG, Merck KgaA, Rauschert Verfahrenstechnik GmbH, and Siemens AG."