Dortmund is a good example for structural change thanks to technologic competence.

The excellent technology and research environment offers many possibilities for synergies. Highly qualified employees as well as high-value industrial and commercial premises are available.
PHOENIX West offers a new location quality.  The large area was once the site of Phoenix steelworks, now technology companies from the fields of IT, micro technology and nanotechnology and production technology have settled here.

In direct neighbourhood to the MST.factory dortmund, the ZfP was completed on PHOENIX West in October 2008. Companies from the fields of materials technology and surface technology, robotics and automation technology, sensor technology, signal processing and measurement technology will find high quality workshops, laboratories, test areas and modern offices on more than 10.000 m² of space.