Albemarle Opens New Specialty Zeolites Production Facility

VEGA Opens New Plant in China

Production at the headquarters will continue and will be supplemented by the new plant

Sasol is investing €60 million in Brunsbüttel

Sasol advances strategic growth in advanced materials and specialty chemicals

LiMA Technology at Full Scale Operation: Official Opening of Röhm’s Bay City MMA Plant

First C2‑based MMA production facility in North America strengthens domestic supply chains

Million-euro investment: Westfalen doubles industrial gases capacities in Switzerland

Capacity in Eiken is almost doubled and secures gas supply for customers in the pharmaceutical, laboratory, medical, beverage, welding and cutting sectors

i.safe MOBILE launches production in Germany

A Clear Commitment to 'Made in Germany'

Industrial breakthrough for next generation natural polymers

German start-up opens first industrial production facility for nature-based material innovation

Sunfire to Build Electrolysis Test Facility at BASF Site in Schwarzheide

Test facility supports the industrial-scale deployment of green hydrogen

LanzaTech Selects North Sea Port, Ghent as Site for Europe’s First Commercial Alcohol-to-Jet SAF Facility

€500 Million Project Targets 79000 Tonnes of Sustainable Aviation Fuel and 9000 Tonnes of Renewable Diesel Annually

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

BASF expands HALS and NOR HALS capacities to support global megatrends

The NOR technology is primarily intended to supply China’s growing plastic cultivation market with UV- and chemical-resistant agricultural films

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

A turning point for Europe’s resource sovereignty: tozero launches production of lithium and other critical raw materials

Industrial demo plant represents one of the fastest scale-ups in battery recycling to date

A flagship for chemical production: BASF inaugurates world-scale Verbund site in China

The Zhanjiang Verbund site sets a new benchmark for sustainable and integrated chemical production

WACKER expands production of silicone emulsions in India

The current main site in Amtala is set to focus on product and process development in future

Matthews Engineering and start-up hs-tumbler partner on dry battery electrode manufacturing

Companies aim to enable dry electrode manufacturing through trajectory mixing

Wevo establishes new production site in Singapore

The new plant in the Tuas industrial zone is intended to shorten delivery times and strengthen the company's regional market position

BASF inaugurates expanded dispersion production in Durban, South Africa

Investment reinforces BASF’s position as a reliable supplier in EMEA

Lavera chemical site to become sustainable production centre with state aid

French government to support decarbonisation of site over 15 years and secure 2,000 jobs in strategically important chemical industry

New quality in regenerative gasoline from CO₂ and hydrogen

First successful processing of eMethanol for efuel production in Freiberg

Solvay inaugurates Europe’s first bio-circular silica facility in Italy

Solvay's plant in Livorno uses agricultural byproducts and supports tire manufacturers in sustainable tire production

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

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

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

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Metso introduces an advanced lithium carbonate process to support battery materials production

At the core of the process is soda pressure leaching, which selectively extracts lithium with fewer soluble impurities in one pass

Frequency combs: the key to the next generation of spectroscopy

A review article demonstrates how dual-comb interferometers can determine resolution solely through temporal coherence.

German government publishes technology roadmaps for six key technologies

Strengthening competitiveness, value creation and technological sovereignty

Cooking plastics into oil

University of Amsterdam pilot plant brings advanced plastic recycling technology closer to industry

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

A scalable strategy for developing next-generation electrocatalysts for efficient and sustainable chemical production

Making Chemistry Greener: The 2026 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Professor Marc Koper

His findings are crucial to advancing the use of renewable energy and the development of sustainable chemistry

It may not just be what’s in ultra-processed foods, but how they’re made

New observational study suggests processing itself could partly explain links to diabetes, heart disease, and early death

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

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

New technology detects bacteria on surfaces in five minutes using a smartphone

UMass spun off HertZ Innovation launches smartphone-based bacterial test

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

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

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

Compounds created by the Maillard reaction during coffee bean roasting tame caffeine’s bitterness

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Insect larvae as a screening tool

How wax moth larvae can help reduce the need for mammalian testing in infection research

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

Healthy ultra-processed foods should be exempt from food policy restrictions

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

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.

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

Daily glass of 100% fruit juice could help support mental wellbeing

Simple diet change cuts depression scores in adults with low fruit intake

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

Carbon dimer: precision measurement delivers new record value

New value deviates significantly from a much-noticed 2019 measurement, but agrees with older quantum chemical calculations