The story of fyf
A successful industry-academic partnership
A non-profit industrial association, FYF was dedicated to technical and scientific research at The Institute for Surface Chemistry, YKI, in Stockholm. Since the 1960’s FYF member companies from around the world have worked in contract research projects and in public-private partnerships, to the benefits of industry, academy and society.
We have collected some of the success stories of the multifaceted activities of FYF. View the introductory film and download our magazine. Welcome to The Story of FYF!
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Editorial board:
Andreas Nilsson, Henrik Lundström, Ingrid HERNvALL, Thomas H Callisen (FYF), Günther Lanzinger (FYF)
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Quotes on FYF
“FYF laid down explicit requirements about how YKI’s strategic investments could be linked to customer benefit and industrial potential. In this way FYF contributed to the greater commercial focus at YKI.”
“FYF has given Dafo Fomtec access to both instruments and also advanced expertise, at YKI to begin with and then in SP.”
“FYF has been a huge success. Based on long-term thinking and cross-fertilisation of the research community and industrial partners, FYF contributed to the transformation of a new, exciting science area into concrete value-adding innovations that make lives easier and better. During the last decades, we now have achieved great maturity. The accelerating role of FYF is over and creates place for new opportunities. Please share my pride when saying: “This end is the start of a new, exciting beginning!”
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Photos from the archive
About FYF
1968–2016
The Association for Surface Chemistry Research, FYF, was the non-profit industrial association at YKI. Members of FYF were YKI’s most important clients and industrial partners. The organisation of FYF changed somewhat over the years, but its prime objective dates back to the formation of YKI in 1968, when the precursor of FYF was formed. Membership was open to any company or organization interested in surface chemistry research.
FYF – In brief