BASF Coatings set to restructure its distribution network for Glasurit and Salcomix products in Poland

Arkema and ProLogium engage in a collaboration for next generation lithium ceramic battery materials for e-mobility

Bodo Möller Chemie expands its presence on the Asian market

Adhesive expert opens new locations in Thailand and Vietnam for automotive, battery, electrical and aerospace users

CIECH Group will change its name to Qemetica in June

"We have an ambitious plan to redefine the chemical industry in response to the challenges posed by everyday life"

Battery recycler cylib receives 55 million from Porsche and Co.

The investment round is the largest ever raised by a European battery recycling company

A Fraunhofer spin-off revolutionizes hydrogen leak detection

Next-generation hydrogen leak detection systems

Merck off to a Good Start in Fiscal 2024

The positive development of Healthcare and Electronics largely compensated for the decline in Life Science

Bayer Group: First-quarter performance as expected

“We’re consolidating roles, designing teams for more impact, and taking out layers”

LANXESS expects earnings growth of 10 to 20 percent for the full year 2024

"It seems that we have touched the economic bottom in the chemical industry"

H-TEC SYSTEMS and Bilfinger cooperate to drive efficient green hydrogen projects in Europe

Strategic partnership with focus on large-scale electrolysis

Rethinking packaging: strengthening paper - with bio-based and biodegradable additives

French start-up FunCell receives 4.8 million euros

Chemovator invests in Detroit-based startup Heartland rethinking plastics using natural fiber reinforcements

Heartland helps manufacturers to reduce the product carbon footprint of plastic and rubber products

Eco-friendly and cost-effective biosurfactants derived from waste

Ghent-based start-up will revolutionize the surfactant market: AmphiStar secures €6 million

Bio-based alternatives to single-use plastics

Suzano Ventures invests up to US$5 million into Bioform Technologies to further develop bio-based plastic alternatives

ETH spin-offs develop high performance batteries

BTRY and 8inks are focusing on efficient battery production with maximum sustainability

“Restore trust and get Bayer on track for better performance”

Three-year process of rejuvenation launched

CARBIOS celebrates the groundbreaking of its PET biorecycling plant

CARBIOS’ first plant is also a world first using revolutionary enzymatic depolymerization technology

Returning rare earth element production to the United States

ReElement Technologies licenses Purdue critical mineral refining tech and will begin production in late 2024

Wanhua Chemical Launches Barcelona R&D Center

Unveiling Signified Focus and Commitment in Europe and Beyond

BASF with solid start to the year

The global chemical industry recovered slightly in the first quarter of 2024

“Best CO2 Utilisation 2024” innovation prize awarded

Dioxycle, D-CRBN and Twelve showcase winning solutions that pave the path for a renewable carbon society

Nadja Håkansson appointed Chief Executive Officer of thyssenkrupp Uhde

Researchers create new chemical compound to solve 120-year-old problem

Accessing these molecules can have major impacts on agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and electronics

Research team develops sodium battery capable of rapid charging in just a few seconds

Breakthrough in overcoming the current limitations of energy storage systems

“Restore trust and get Bayer on track for better performance”

Three-year process of rejuvenation launched

Toxic chemicals can be detected with new AI method

The number of animal experiments could be reduced, as well as the economic costs when developing new chemicals

An AI leap into chemical synthesis

AI navigates and performs chemical research tasks with unprecedented efficiency

Novel hydrogel removes microplastics from water

The material has a unique intertwined polymer network that can bind the contaminants and degrade them using UV light irradiation

Longer-lasting and more sustainable green hydrogen production

The findings impact the ability to achieve a lasting and sustainable hydrogen-based energy economy

BASF has started prototype metal refinery for battery recycling

Innovative technology extracts lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and battery production scrap

Scientists convert chicken fat into energy storage devices

Cost-effective method for converting waste chicken fat into electrically conductive nanostructures

Safer alternative for an explosive reaction

The chemical industry has been using a reaction with explosive chemicals for over 100 years - now scientists have discovered a safer alternative

Chemists pioneer work to reduce carbon emissions

“My team and I have been hard at work trying to find more sustainable ways to separate, purify and trap ethylene..."

New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

Reducing health damage caused by alcohol

Children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers should avoid Brazil nuts

Brazil nuts can contain unusually high levels of radioactive radium

Toxic chemicals can be detected with new AI method

The number of animal experiments could be reduced, as well as the economic costs when developing new chemicals

Unfavourable carbohydrates early in the morning - a potential problem for "owls"

"Larks" and "owls" react differently to carbohydrate-rich meals

New gel breaks down alcohol in the body

Bruker to acquire the NanoString business in an asset deal

Intermittent fasting protects against liver inflammation and liver cancer

Drug partially mimics fasting effects

Map of feelings of happiness

Finally back in the ice cream parlor! Researchers have now discovered how our brain guides us to such "reward places".

Novel UV Broadband Spectrometer Revolutionises Air Pollutant Analysis

The laser-based technology developed at TU Graz enables the continual real-time analysis of air pollutants and their interaction with other gases and sunlight

Innovative treatment helmet from a Basel spin-off promises advances in the treatment of Alzheimer’s

There is a huge market for the treatment of patients with degenerative brain diseases

Take it from the rats: A junk food diet can cause long-term damage to adolescent brains

Rats that were fed a diet chock-full of fat and sugar in their adolescence suffered memory impairment, USC researchers found

analytica 2024 confirms its position as the world’s leading trade fair for the laboratory sector

Focus on digitalization and sustainability in the lab of the future

How a “date” between immune cells makes rheumatism disappear

Major success: New approach for treating autoimmune diseases

Asahi Brands relies on Warsteiner

Focus of cooperation on efficiency and sustainability

Scientists accelerate spectroscopic analysis

"This innovation expands the application of compressed sensing to real-time spectroscopic measurement"

Breakthrough in research on brown fat

Hope for strategies that support weight loss: Researchers from Denmark and Germany have found brown fat’s “off-switch"

Krombacher Brewery launches three unusual beer mix drinks with party liqueur Berliner Luft

Electrified bacteria: Method developed for faster determination of antibiotic resistance

"The results are available to us after just five to ten hours"

Microbe of the Year 2023: Bacillus subtilis – for health and technology

Already, Bacillus subtilis is indispensable in many industries, and many more innovations are expected

Opening a window to the food industry’s future: the world’s first factory growing food out of thin air launches

Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature

‘We stumbled on this structure completely by accident and almost couldn’t believe what we saw when we first took images of it using an electron microscope’

New AI platform designs tomorrow’s cancer drugs

“A few years ago, AI was a dirty word in the pharmaceutical industry, but now the trend is definitely the opposite...”

Milk will continue to play an important role in our diet in the future

New insights into the genetics of the common octopus: genome at the chromosome level decoded

Scientific milestone provides deeper insights into the evolution and biology of Octopus vulgaris

With the Flick of a Switch: Shaping Cells with Light

The therapeutic potential of this research is immense

Why the BfR is shooting at gelatine or how the food safety of game meat can be guaranteed

Molecular dynamics in real time

A novel spectroscopic method allows ultrafast processes within molecules to be observed

AI designs new drugs based on protein structures

“It’s a real breakthrough for drug discovery”: Process ensures right from the start that the molecules can be chemically synthesised

E-tongue can detect white wine spoilage before humans can

Breakthrough technology to rapidly identify unknown molecules at scale

Start-up Isospec Analytics raises $1.9m