Collaboration of Biesterfeld Spezialchemie and Chemfields Ptv. Ltd.

Closure of the Strait of Hormuz exacerbates cost pressure in the chemical industry

"Chemistry is struggling, pharma is preparing for even greater challenges"

Röchling Strengthens Profitability Once Again Despite Headwinds

Restructuring of the Automotive division and focus on the Industrial business are driving the company’s forward momentum

New alliance for research-based spin-offs: Renowned research institutions join forces

The new “Academic Spin-out Alliance” aims to facilitate more academic spin-offs in collaboration with the Vienna Business Agency

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

Rubber reborn: McMaster startup converts tire waste into sustainable solutions

This chemical process has the potential to be a gamechanger in the $9 billion silicone construction industry

Greentown Go Make 2026 with Shell and Technip Energies Announces Startup Cohort

Five startups will participate in the open-innovation program focused on catalytic solutions for industrial decarbonization and the energy transition

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

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

Berlin honors outstanding deep-tech companies

Deep Tech Award 2026 presented for the first time at the Deep Tech Momentum conference

Innovation meets practice: POWTECH TECHNOPHARM takes centre stage for processing technology again in 2026

The CHT Group awarded Best Managed Company 2026

Recognition of a consistent transformation strategy and a clear strategic direction

Chempark Uerdingen gets out of coal: First electrode boiler supplies steam

Important step for the future-proof orientation of the Chempark site

Bringing start-ups in the field of sustainable chemistry to market faster

ISC3 and Carbon13 agree partnership to protect climate and environment

BASF sells its silicates business to specialist supplier PQ

PQ extends its global silicate platform with the acquisition of BASF silicates business including assets in Düsseldorf

BASF focuses on strengthening and growing its core businesses in the next phase of its “Winning Ways” strategy

BASF to operate core businesses at up to 20­% lower net cash fixed costs by 2029

Cooling without a compressor or refrigerant—quieter, more efficient, and more sustainable than ever before

Fraunhofer Spin-off Raises €2.2 Million Seed Funding to Redefine Refrigeration Technology

Plant-based sugars become raw materials for plastics: UPM secures Avantium patents

UPM is the first company to commence industrial production of chemicals derived from lignocellulosic biomass

Biesterfeld Acquires Majority Stake In OSP

Distributor Continues Geographic Expansion in High-Tech Industries

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

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

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

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

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

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

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Sustainable chemistry: iron replaces precious metals in catalysis

Researchers develop iron(I) source for catalytic reactions - approach aims to make chemical processes more sustainable

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"

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

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

Green hydrogen becomes competitive

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

14 million used batteries from electric vehicles by 2040: Who will master the circular economy?

Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase more than seven-fold in last decade

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.

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

The olive as a laboratory

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

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

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

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

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

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

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

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

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%

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

Study paves the way for faster breeding

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

One Molecule, Two Effects: A New Drug Concept to Treat Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

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

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

The ‘Ozempic Era’ could shift blame for obesity from individuals to the food industry

How weight-loss injections could reinforce the perception of ultra-processed foods as addictive substances

Not all ultra-processed foods are unhealthy

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

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

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

Start-up produces molecules that no fermentation process has previously been able to produce economically

Primogene raises €4.1 million to bring nature's complex bioactive molecules to the industrial scale

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

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

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

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

Why the food that made us human may be making us sick

Largest study to date on the genetics of blood proteins highlights new disease mechanisms and drug repurposing opportunities

Machine learning combined with genetic analysis is expected to enable a more targeted use of active substances in precision medicine

NanoStruct secures €2.6 million for faster bacterial analysis in food

Nanostructured sensor chips combined with AI are set to replace laboratory tests that take several days

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

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

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

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent