The current scientific, technical and administrative staff of the IPMT amounts to about 30 employees, and the office and laboratory space to about 1.200 m².

• Two universal tension/compression test systems and three all-electric-dynamic test systems, equipped with temperature chambers
• Instrumented impact and penetration test systems (the latter planned)
• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), differential thermal analysis (DTA) and simultaneous thermo-gravimetric analysis (STA)
• Dynamic-mechanical analysis (DMA) incl. dilatometry und rheometry
• Optical microscopes, 3D-laser-confocal microscope, FTIR and Raman microscopes
• UV/VIS/NIR and FTIR spectrometer incl.Ulbricht spheres
• Climate und temperature chambers
• Various other test devices (MFR, HDT, Vicat, hardness, etc.)