Bayer MaterialScience LLC purchases polyurethane foam systems business from Stepan Company

Middle East crisis boosts Wacker's first-quarter results

Wacker’s Q1 earnings rise due to cost savings and customer orders brought forward

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

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

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

Shimadzu acquires German startup Plasmion and its SICRIT ionization technology

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

Geopolitical price pressure hits fertilizer and flame retardant market

Natural calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide as reliable alternatives

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

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

Tire abrasion accounts for a third of marine plastic: researchers and start-up develop solutions to combat microplastics

Bubble technology in rainwater clarifiers and a manta-inspired washing machine filter to catch microplastics early on

Starch Instead of Plastic: Colombian Startup Reinventing Fruit Packaging

Natupla: From ISC3 start-up of the month to a pioneer in starch-based, biodegradable plastics

Evonik reorganizes its executive leadership: CEO stays on, CFO joins

Christian Kullmann to remain CEO until 2030

AI company Synera receives 35 million euros

Bremen-based startup develops AI agents to automate industrial product development processes

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

Humanoid robots, AI & co.: the digital transformation of industry enters the next round

More than half of German industrial companies fear they will miss out on the AI revolution

Endress+Hauser tops four-billion-euro mark for the first time

Swiss Group invests 370.8 million euros – more than ever before

Efficiency leap for liquid hydrogen: C&CS receives ZIM funding for innovative catalyst project

C&CS and TU Dresden optimize hydrogen liquefaction with new catalyst approach

Export growth of German industry threatens to halve by 2035

Exports to the USA and China will decline in the long term according to the study - India and Brazil have considerable potential

New startup aims to replace fossil fuels in industrial process heating

The technology covers temperatures ranging from 30 to 1,000 °C and is designed for use in sectors such as the food industry, the paper industry, and chemical plants

German chemical industry with decline in sales and employment

Exports of Chinese chemical producers to Europe rise sharply - increasing competition for German companies

German industrial pump specialist Lutz Holding expands into Italy

Operations have commenced at the new branch office “Lutz-Jesco Italia S.r.l.”

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

Biodegradable barrier coating developed for paper packaging

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

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

Electrochemical Process Enables Recovery of Valuable Raw Materials

Vacuum pump without motor: Thin films - the stuff new pumps are made of

Research team presents vacuum pump prototype with double film drive - spin-off mateligent brings the technology to industry

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

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

Scientists discover new way metals bind oxygen, possibly starting ‘new chapter’ in chemistry

Neodymium binds dioxygen via pi interactions — a first for lanthanide chemistry

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

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

Innovative coating for hydrogen components

Further development of titanium coating for composite bipolar plates

Start-up AveThera acquires Fraunhofer site for biologics production

The young biotech company takes over pharmaceutical biotechnology unit including employees

Good Friday fish in the sustainability check

DNA steps out of the "blueprint" role to become an active "field agent"

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

Paulaner develops a beer specifically for the Chinese market for the first time

Paulaner drives international growth through a strategic partnership with Tsingtao in China

Development of a rapid test for diagnosing hard-to-treat VRE Bacteria

Parents' consumption of artificial sweeteners could affect their children's metabolism

Sucralose and stevia alter gene expression even in the second generation

Ever heard of the barunut?

gebana brings the baruna nut to Europe as a novel food

The olive as a laboratory

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

More immune protection, less dominance: A new phase in the corona-development?

For the first time, no new variant is replacing the dominant strains – BA.3.2 mainly infects children

Conscious, sophisticated enjoyment outlasts the quick rush

BOAR Gin® demonstrates that a decline in alcohol consumption can also offer opportunities for producers of high-quality spirits

Skoltech startup outpaces Nobel Prize-winning AI in virtual drug screening

Ligand Pro has made screening more than 30 times faster: AI model makes large-scale virtual screening viable for mid-sized labs

Helium shortage jeopardizes pharmaceutical production

Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has consequences for drug production and drug supply

Films and coatings made from chitin-containing residues

Biorefinery for the processing of chitin and production of high-quality chitosan

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

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

Kitchen hygiene when handling eggs: Not just relevant at Easter

Genetically modified marmosets as a model for human deafness

A new primate model provides significant opportunities for future gene therapies

Dynamic42 and EPO Close the Gap in Brain Cancer Research

Strategic collaboration integrates organ-on-chip technology into preclinical glioblastoma research to improve translational relevance

Change in management and in the European service business at HOBART

Growth in visitor numbers, full halls, clear future topics: analytica 2026 sets standards

AI and automation as innovation drivers for the industry

New treatment approach against sepsis discovered

Amazonian cocoa could become a superfood

Brazilian researchers discovered glycine betaine and proline in unroasted beans as natural cell protectors

Lipid Identification: Chemical Fingerprint Instead of Dye

New process developed to produce universal blood plasma for all blood groups

Revolution in emergency medicine

German food tech company secures €8 million to combat food waste

Foodforecast aims to scale AI technology for ultra-fresh food

Automation and robotics drive growth in the laboratory

Skills shortage and efficiency pressure accelerate automation

How old are we really?

Blood test reveals biological age

More meat, lower risk of dementia: study reveals gene-dependent effect

Among carriers of the APOE4 variant, high meat consumption was associated with a significantly slower rate of cognitive decline

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