thyssenkrupp Uhde and Praj Industries Ltd join forces to revolutionize polylactic acid production and circular economy

End-to-end offering for PLA (polylactic acid) production

30-Apr-2025 - thyssenkrupp Uhde’s polymer specialists Uhde Inventa-Fischer (UIF), a subsidiary of the global leader in chemical engineering and construction, and Praj Industries Limited (PIL), a global leader in industrial biotechnology solutions, announced a strategic partnership to jointly offer an ...

Data archiving with molecules

Reading synthetic polymers as data storage more efficiently

30-Oct-2024 - More and more data needs to be stored, often long-term. Synthetic polymers are an alternative to conventional storage media, as they retain stored information with significantly lower space and energy requirements. However, mass spectrometric data readout limits the length and thus the storage ...

Taste secret of sourdough bread decoded

Consistent quality of sourdoughs as a goal

31-Aug-2023 - Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have succeeded in decoding the taste and smell of sourdough bread. In their measurements and analyses at the molecular level, they came across ten key flavor substances and an additional eleven key odor substances that made it possible to ...

BluCon Biotech and LG Chem enter into unique investment agreement

BluCon Biotech's technology has the potential to be a disruptive game changer in the world's plastics market

16-Mar-2023 - BluCon Biotech, a German biotech company, and LG Chem,a Korean chemical company, have entered into an investment agreement to scale up and commercialize BluCon Biotech’s proprietary technology to supplement LG Chem´s bio-economy portfolio BluCon Biotech’s technology has the potential to be a ...

Catalyst to make renewable paints, coatings, and diapers discovered

Groundbreaking discovery will enable the manufacturing of biorenewable materials from trees and corn: A Startup wants to make it possible

11-Jan-2023 - A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers. The new catalyst ...

Bacteria as climate heroes

Circular economy for CO2

18-Nov-2021 - To establish a carbon-neutral circular economy in the future, technologies are needed that use carbon dioxide as a raw material. In the form of formate, CO2 can be metabolised by certain bacteria. Acetogens are a group of bacteria that can metabolise formate. For example, they form acetic acid – ...

thyssenkrupp commissions first commercial bioplastics plant in China

Production capacities for bioplastics expected to grow

22-Oct-2018 - To reduce reliance on petroleum-based plastics, thyssenkrupp has developed a manufacturing process for the bioplastic polylactide (PLA). The world’s first commercial plant based on the patented PLAneo® technology recently started production in Changchun, China. It is operated by the Jilin COFCO ...

3D-printed lithium-ion batteries

18-Oct-2018 - Electric vehicles and most electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers, are powered by lithium-ion batteries. Until now, manufacturers have had to design their devices around the size and shape of commercially available batteries. But researchers have developed a new method to 3D ...

Photocatalyst system for plastics production

Properties of recyclable plastics can be defined by the wavelength

05-Jul-2018 - A research team from Berlin has developed a novel catalyst system, which enables the regulation of multiple polymerization processes to produce biodegradable plastics solely by illumination with light of different colors. The properties of a polymeric material are highly dependent on factors, ...

Worlds first recyclable surfoboard

01-Sep-2017 - An Imperial researcher has developed what is thought to be the world's first 3D-printed compostable and recyclable surfboard. Dr Nathaniel Petre, from the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, has 3D printed a surfboard that is comparably cheaper to make, more durable and ...