PPD Opens Offices in Athens, Greece, and Seattle, Washington

Fibre-based packaging to claim top market share in food sector by 2045

New UPM/Smithers study: share rises from 37% to 42%, driven by barrier coating breakthroughs and EPR regulation

FUST Lab Receives Investment from Asia2G Capital

The Korean deep-tech company plans to use the capital to expand into the U.S., European, and Japanese markets

Hycamite reorganises its management team for the next phase of growth

Finnish cleantech start-up appoints Jukka Nieminen as Chair of the Board of Directors and fills the CEO and COO roles

The future of chemistry is taking shape in the lab: exære wins the From Lab to Market Challenge 2026

ReduCO₂, based in Munich, received a special award for converting CO₂ and hydrogen into battery graphite

Which universities produce the most successful start-up founders in the DACH region?

Start-ups create 25,000 jobs in 10 years

Oxyle: Industrial pilot validates performance basis for full-scale system targeting >99.9% degradation of C3-PFAS

Oxyle successfully validated its PFAS destruction solution on-site at an industrial facility, demonstrating readiness for industrial-scale implementation

Siemens and Ucaneo partner to scale direct air capture

Germany's largest Direct Air Capture facility to be inaugurated in Berlin on July 2, 2026

Endress+Hauser expands its presence in the U.S.

44 million euros are being invested in the new facility in Greenwood, Indiana

Renewable hydrogen from Denmark for Europe

Hy2gen secures EU funding for Albatros projectHy2gen receives EU funding

POWTECH TECHNOPHARM 2026: Competitive advantages through cross-industry exchange

From smart sensor patches to wireless charging: Science4Life honors the year’s most innovative startup teams

First place in the Science4Life Venture Cup goes to SoreAlert, while Voltalyon wins the Science4Life Energy Award

Saxon Founder Award 2026: Oxaphil is ‘Newcomer of the Year’

Startup Develops Polyoxazolines as a Biocompatible Alternative to PEG for Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Products

ProChem Strengthens Its Hanau Location

ProChem Acquires Active Ingredient Production Facilities from Evonik at the Wolfgang Industrial Park

Westlake expands global chlorovinyls manufacturing capacity with acquisition of PVC and VCM plants in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Materials In Works: From ISC3 Start-up of the Month to a Pioneer in Circular Raw Materials From Label WasteS

ustainable Chemistry Changemakers: The Path to a More Sustainable Future

Start-ups in Europe: Significant Potential Remains Untapped

Study Shows Differences Between Start-ups in France, Germany and the United Kingdom

India builds first large-scale hydrometallurgical plant for battery circular economy

N.A.N. GreenMet and Silox set up joint venture for lithium-ion battery recycling

Evonik extends efficiency program “Tailor Made”

Companywide restructuring and savings measures through 2029: About 3,200 jobs to be cut

VEGA Opens New Plant in China

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

Empa spin-off Swiss Cluster wins the Swiss Economic Award

Thin layers, high performance

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"

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

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

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

Cooking plastics into oil

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

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

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

Bacterial factories: A key to climate-friendly chemistry

ETH spin-off uses genetically modified microorganisms and green methanol as an intermediate step in fossil-free chemical production

Faster and more energy-efficient: Catalysts boost hydrogen-based steel production

Nickel oxides accelerate hydrogen-based steel production by a factor of two

MIT researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks

MIT spinout Rock Zero aims to make U.S. lithium production less dependent on China

A Step Forward for Solar-Driven Ammonia Production

Iron-containing MOF catalysts enable ammonia synthesis without the extreme conditions of the Haber-Bosch process.

India builds first large-scale hydrometallurgical plant for battery circular economy

N.A.N. GreenMet and Silox set up joint venture for lithium-ion battery recycling

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

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

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

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

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

Merck expands life science portfolio with $11.3 billion Bio-Techne deal

Bio-Techne to bring portfolio with industry-leading multi-omics offering, analytical technologies and integrated workflow solutions across the scientific journey

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

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

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

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

Mini-Brains from Patient Cells Point to Vitamin B3 as Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease

Lab-grown brain organoids revealed cholesterol build-up in astrocytes as the driver of DHDDS-related neurodegeneration.

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

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

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

Artificial intelligence evaluates chemical spectra in minutes

Researchers from the University of Jena, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and Zakodium develop AI system for chemical structure analysis

Insect larvae as a screening tool

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

Carbon nanotubes make the electronic nose suitable for everyday use for the first time

The smart fridge of the future: E-nose warns of off chicken and nut allergens

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

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

According to the report, one in five cups of coffee contains toxic pesticide residues

An analysis by four organizations shows that 59 percent of the active ingredients in pesticides used in coffee cultivation are banned in the EU

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

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

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

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

Researchers find fructose sends a weaker “I’m full” signal to the brain than glucose

Findings shed light on how sugar type influences what and how much we decide to eat

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis

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

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

Plant-based supermarket products contain twice as many additives as animal-based equivalents

A UK study analysed 71 like-for-like product pairs and counted 199 additives in plant-based items versus 100 in animal-based ones

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

New method solves a key analytical challenge