Solvay creates spin-out company eSpheres

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

E-Waste, Batteries, Metals, ITAD: EBMI2026 makes its conference free to attend for the first time

With 180+ speakers and 400+ exhibitors, all recycling segments come together in Frankfurt this June

Job cuts at WACKER: Around 1,600 jobs in Germany affected

Global cost-cutting and efficiency program PACE aims to generate annual savings of over 300 million euros

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

Evonik defies adverse circumstances in the first quarter

Company expects a strong second quarter despite risks in the Middle East

Vulcan Energy advances Frankfurt lithium refinery project with NESI’s electrolysis technology

NESI technology to support production of battery-quality lithium for up to 500,000 electric vehicle batteries annually

Everstone Capital acquires Qlar Group from Blackstone

Everstone Capital to back Qlar’s roadmap through continued investment in engineering and innovation

Polytives additives coming to Canada: German start-up enters North America

Polytives launches sales cooperation with Simcoe Plastics

Geopolitics as a competitive advantage: LANXESS benefits from supply chain disruptions in Asia

LANXESS confirms guidance despite subdued start to the year

Gendorf as a booster for Bavarian industry

Realignment: GENDORF Chemical Park becomes an engine for deep-tech start-ups

Laboratory software provider realigns itself

GUS LAB becomes LIVO Technologies

Green hydrogen becomes competitive

Start-up wants to make green hydrogen affordable with new MEA technology

CMBlu achieves unicorn status: SolidFlow developer now valued at over one billion euros

50 million euros in Series C funding will drive the scaling up of production of the non-lithium SolidFlow battery in Europe and the US

Custom-fit packaging using 3D printing for sustainable logistics

Paderborn startup Palprint uses recycled PET and receives 125,000 euros in funding from the DBU

epiray is revolutionizing thin-film technology

The start-up’s method allows for the production of entirely new, extremely pure materials free of impurities

Middle East crisis boosts Wacker's first-quarter results

Wacker’s Q1 earnings rise due to cost savings and customer orders brought forward

Three new world-scale plants: BASF expands production across two continents

BASF invests and commissions world-scale facilities for menthol and linalool in Ludwigshafen and citral plant in Zhanjiang

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

The mass spectrometry technique enables high-sensitivity real-time analysis without complex sample pretreatment

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

Vacuum pump without motor: Thin films - the stuff new pumps are made of

Research team presents vacuum pump prototype with double film drive - spin-off mateligent brings the technology to industry

IBU-tec is setting up LFP production without Chinese technology

New plant to produce 15,000 tonnes of European battery material, with a significantly lower carbon footprint than Chinese processes

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

Biodegradable barrier coating developed for paper packaging

Scientists discover new way metals bind oxygen, possibly starting ‘new chapter’ in chemistry

Neodymium binds dioxygen via pi interactions — a first for lanthanide chemistry

New startup aims to replace fossil fuels in industrial process heating

The technology covers temperatures ranging from 30 to 1,000 °C and is designed for use in sectors such as the food industry, the paper industry, and chemical plants

From lab to industry: 3D printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries

A major review highlights the potential, the pitfalls, and different perspectives of 3D printing's role in manufacturing lithium batteries

German chemical industry with decline in sales and employment

Exports of Chinese chemical producers to Europe rise sharply - increasing competition for German companies

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on

Parents' consumption of artificial sweeteners could affect their children's metabolism

Sucralose and stevia alter gene expression even in the second generation

Scientists are fixing the big fat problem with vegan cheese

Oleogelation transforms liquid vegetable oils into spreadable fats and is intended to replace coconut and palm oil

The olive as a laboratory

A new analytical approach predicts the quality of olive oil before it is extracted

No need to pull all-nighters here: this laboratory plans its own experiments

KIWI Biolab at TU Berlin combines robots, analysis devices and AI - and uses them to carry out even complex experiments fully automatically

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

Skoltech startup outpaces Nobel Prize-winning AI in virtual drug screening

Ligand Pro has made screening more than 30 times faster: AI model makes large-scale virtual screening viable for mid-sized labs

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

Healthier plant-based diet associated with lower risk of Alzheimer’s, other dementias

Lower risk found even among those who adopted the diet at an older age

First ​“protein map” of neurons that initiate pain reveals new targets for drugs

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

Hydroponics without flying blind: New monitoring system tracks nutrient solutions in real time

Is this the future of crop cultivation?

Brain tumor spread in the living brain observed live for the first time

Three-photon microscopy reveals: immune cells of the brain actively influence how far the tumor advances

More immune protection, less dominance: A new phase in the corona-development?

For the first time, no new variant is replacing the dominant strains – BA.3.2 mainly infects children

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

Biotech start-up TIBEAY secures 35 million euros for first therapy for severe traumatic brain injury

Ronopterin to pharmacologically slow down neurological sequelae after traumatic brain injury for the first time

Waterland enters into strategic partnership with Condio and establishes a platform for functional food ingredients

The company develops stabiliser systems for high-protein, reduced-sugar and plant-based foods.

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

New process developed to produce universal blood plasma for all blood groups

Revolution in emergency medicine

Ever heard of the barunut?

gebana brings the baruna nut to Europe as a novel food

Sartorius marks positive start to 2026: Considerable sales revenue growth and resilient profit margin

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery to accelerate AI-powered research in life sciences

A new agentic AI application aims to speed up drug development, helping bring new medical treatments to patients faster

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

Development of a rapid test for diagnosing hard-to-treat VRE Bacteria

A fundamentally new therapeutic approach to cystic fibrosis: Nanobody repairs cellular defect

FMP and Charité develop the first functional cell-permeable antibody

DNA steps out of the "blueprint" role to become an active "field agent"