New acquisition by Cray Valley in Southeast Asia

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

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

DELO Achieves Record Revenue

New production facility planned in Malaysia

LEVACO invests in Brazil

Specialty chemicals company further expands Brazil as a strategic growth market for agrochemicals and food chemicals

Trilateral chemical region: Why interconnection is both a strength and a risk

Study identifies steps to secure competitiveness and climate neutrality despite the energy crisis and cost pressure

Merck upgrades full-year guidance and expects revenue of up to €21.4 billion

New CEO Kai Beckmann announces adaptation to the operating model

Insolvency overcome: DOMO site in Premnitz finds investor

Lone Star Funds secures 50 chemical jobs

Start-ups as drivers of innovation in the tire circular economy

AZuR networks innovative start-ups with established industry partners

Bayer reports solid start to the year and confirms currency-adjusted Group guidance for 2026

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

E-Waste, Batteries, Metals, ITAD: EBMI2026 makes its conference free to attend for the first time

With 180+ speakers and 400+ exhibitors, all recycling segments come together in Frankfurt this June

Job cuts at WACKER: Around 1,600 jobs in Germany affected

Global cost-cutting and efficiency program PACE aims to generate annual savings of over 300 million euros

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

Evonik defies adverse circumstances in the first quarter

Company expects a strong second quarter despite risks in the Middle East

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

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

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

From lab to industry: 3D printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries

A major review highlights the potential, the pitfalls, and different perspectives of 3D printing's role in manufacturing lithium batteries

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

Biodegradable barrier coating developed for paper packaging

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

New biomarkers for detecting cancer

Able to distinguish between tumour stages

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

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

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

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

The olive as a laboratory

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

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

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

Study paves the way for faster breeding

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

Deep Visual Proteomics applied to nerve cells for the first time

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

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

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%

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

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

Group sales revenue up by 7.5 percent

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

Coffee has a positive effect on the gut-brain axis

Coffee shifts gut microbiome and lifts mood regardless of caffeine content

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

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

Red meat: Evolution’s double-edged sword

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

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

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

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