Arne Vraalsen has decided to leave his position as CEO and President of Polimoon

trinamiX with new management

BASF considers restructuring or partial sale of its subsidiary

EDL Anlagenbau expands management team

Leipzig-based plant designer from the Pörner Group to introduce dual leadership in future

Change of leadership at ViscoTec

Technical Managing Director hands over responsibility

Die Köttermann Group appoints Joerg Hoffmann as CEO

Experienced industry leader set to drive growth and innovation across expanding markets

Atoms in the sunbath for a sustainable future

Dr. Shanmugapriya Periyannan has been named "MSCA Fellow of the Month"

Infraserv Logistics sets new course

Dr. Andreas Brockmeyer retires - Dr. Klaus Alberti takes over as sole Managing Director

Biodegradable polymers: Andreas Künkel receives the Meyer-Galow Prize for Industrial Chemistry 2025

Executive board change at Hosokawa Alpine AG as at 1 January 2026

Continuity and new beginnings at the top of the company

Ruth Bieringer becomes President of the GDCh

WIKA strengthens management team with Axel Schwerdtfeger

Process Solutions company division under new leadership

Rigaku opens Rigaku Technology Center Taiwan

Advancing regional growth through engineering and collaboration in Taiwan and beyond

Alberto Perez Pereira has become the new Managing Director for Bodo Möller Chemie Spain and Portugal

Change in leadership brings international expertise

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 for the development of metal-organic frameworks

“Metal-organic frameworks have enormous potential, bringing previously unforeseen opportunities for custom-made materials with new functions”

Prize for bioconversion of renewable raw materials

Daniel Eggerichs has bacteria produce plastic precursors from paper production waste

Change of managing directors at 5-HT Chemistry & Health

Innovation partner for companies in the chemical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries under new management

Kai Beckmann to Succeed Belén Garijo as Chair of the Executive Board and CEO of Merck as of May 2026

Management change at tesa

Dr. Kourosh Bahrami succeeds Dr. Norman Goldberg

Chief Financial Officer Maike Schuh departs Evonik

Chief Executive Officer Christian Kullmann takes over Schuh’s responsibilities at Executive Board level

Changes to the Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG

Boosting BYK’s presence and customer proximity in Brazil

Strategic new course set in South America

DOMO Chemicals Germany: Plants go into emergency operation

Negotiations with creditors for a short-term mass loan have failed

New process for stable, long-lasting all-solid-state batteries

“A few more adjustments – and we could get started”

Revolutionizing chemistry - reaction by reaction

New applications for familiar chemicals

Chemical plant closures rate surges six-fold in Europe since 2022

"It’s no longer a question of being five minutes before or after twelve. The sector is under severe stress and breaking"

Wood chemicals replace toxic bisphenols in cash register receipts

Lignin makes cash register receipts safer

Swedish start-up produces graphite from forest waste for batteries and green steel

EIT RawMaterials invests €0.6 million in Nordic Bio-Graphite

Scientists optimized wastewater use for green hydrogen production through artificial intelligence

Scientists discover molecular ‘reshuffle’ and crack an 80-year-old conundrum

“Our findings open the door to new asymmetric transformations based on mechanistic pathways that chemists previously dismissed as inaccessible”

DOMO Chemicals Germany: State orders continued operation

Shutdown of production facilities in Leuna prevented for safety reasons

Electrochemical breakthrough turns nitrate waste into ammonia fuel

Copper-palladium hydride interfaces enable highly efficient electrochemical ammonia synthesis

New aluminum-ion cell chemistry on the battery test bench

From research to practice and back again: requirements-driven material development

Climate-friendly production of formic acid and hydrogen from the waste product glycerine

New electrolysis process could make an important contribution to the electrification of the chemical industry

Could cheese protect your brain health?

A new study links eating more high-fat cheese and cream to a lower risk of developing dementia

Cheese without cows?

Researchers investigated the beliefs that influence consumers' willingness to buy animal-free Gouda

Bruker consolidates ownership of TOFWERK

Expanding its mass spectrometry portfolio into new applied markets

Do natural substances from blueberries and blue grapes protect nerve cells from aging?

A clock that measures the aging of nerve cells finds molecules that protect against age-related neurodegeneration

Bel Reinforces Its Industrial Position In Egypt

80% of total production exported to 19 countries, generating more than €1.4 billion in export value over the last 15 years

Velaris acquires Markes International to expand its automated sample preparation capabilities

The company joins the Velaris family of existing brands – Skalar Analytical, LCTech, PromoChrom, EST Analytical, GERSTEL and TE Instruments

How sweet is healthy? Tagatose could solve the sugar problem

Tufts researchers use E. coli as microfactories for tagatose, which has 60% fewer calories and hardly affects blood sugar levels

EFSA warns of lectins in undercooked beans

European authority sees health risk for all age groups from phytohemagglutinin

New test shows which antibiotics actually work

“Our test method allows us to tailor antibiotic therapies specifically to the bacterial strains in individual patients”

Parkinson's disease: Ion channel as a promising approach for active substances

Ion channel as promising avenue for new drugs

Mö Foods secures € 2.4 million and redefines cheese alternative made from oats

Mö Foods is taking plant-based products out of their niche with its award-winning oat-based cheese alternatives

Discovered by chance: the refractive index microscope

An astonishing success: by combining completely different microscopy methods, the optical density of a sample can be measured with pinpoint accuracy

Coffee as a Staining Agent Substitute in Electron Microscopy

Researchers have proven that espresso is a favourable alternative to the highly toxic and radioactive uranyl acetate in the analysis of biological samples

Compact AI-based hyperspectral camera enables new industrial applications

Quality control of food, plastics, etc.: New camera detects chemical properties invisible to the human eye

Thermo Fisher Scientific and NVIDIA launch AI revolution in the laboratory

"We are entering the era of ‘lab-in-the-loop’ science... to scale scientific discovery at industrial pace"

Stopping immune aging: Startup receives million-dollar investment

Groundbreaking thymus-rejuvenating biologics are designed to restore immune function and promote lasting immune health throughout all stages of life

Addressing the next bottleneck in dairy alternatives

The Protein Brewery Secures €2.3 Million Grant to bring next-gen nutritious mycoprotein powder to dairy alternatives

Early warning for wine spoilage glow's in the dark

This could offer a simpler, lower-cost alternative to lab testing and strengthen quality control across fermentation-based industries

New skin for burn victims

Spin-off cultivates personalized transplants from the body's own cells that feel like natural skin and grow with the body

Sugar tax to curb chronic diseases

DEGAM welcomes legislative initiative on sugar tax

New imaging technology can detect early signs of heart disease through the skin.

Detecting progression before symptoms appear

Researchers crack the mystery of band pattern formation in centrifuged blood

Better understanding the fundamental rules of nature

Change of management at the online supermarkets Knuspr and Gurkerl

New mass spec innovation could transform research

Innovation may improve drug target discovery while helping scientists answer long-standing questions about human health and biology

Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

Study shows that positive effects are still evident even six weeks later

Automata raises $45 million for AI-enabled laboratory automation

Series C financing is intended to drive scalable software-defined laboratory processes and accelerate AI-driven drug discovery

New Toothpaste Stops Periodontal Pathogens

Fraunhofer spin-off has brought the technology to market

trinamiX with new management

BASF considers restructuring or partial sale of its subsidiary