Recycled precious metals are used to make new products for the automotive, chemical, electronics and green hydrogen industries

14-Feb-2022

BASF and Heraeus have agreed to form a joint venture (BASF: 50%; Heraeus: 50%) to recover precious metals from spent automotive catalysts. The new company named BASF HERAEUS (China) Metal Resource Co., Ltd will be set up in Pinghu, China. The founding of the legal entity is targeted in Q1 2022, ...

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Startups from Germany and Spain selected

16-Sep-2021

Heraeus, a leading technology group, is launching its 2021 Accelerator Program with five selected start-ups: OrelTech, Fusion Bionic, Highline Technology, Intelligent Fluids from Germany and NANOGAP from Spain. The focus of the 2021 program is on start-ups developing solutions and products for ...

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08-Jun-2016

Songwon and Heraeus announced that they have signed a co-operation agreement to jointly develop and market high end specialty chemicals for the electronics industry. This new co-operation combines Songwon's strong expertise in R&D and chemical manufacturing with Heraeus' technical capabilities ...

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11-Sep-2012

After three years of intensive research in the field of new solution-processable materials for OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes), Merck and ten other partners from industry and academia have successfully concluded the "New materials for OLEDs from solutions" (NEMO) project co-funded by the ...

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Expansions in Singapore, Shanghai, Hanau and Taiwan to Support Growth of PV Market

14-Jun-2012

The Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit is in the midst of significant expansions to their production and research and development facilities worldwide to support the future growth of the photovoltaics industry. Expansions are underway in Singapore, Shanghai, Taiwan and Hanau, with all to be ...

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Strategic partnership between Heraeus and PhosphonicS

24-Aug-2011

Precious metals like platinum and rhodium are very valuable, and also very rare. That makes it increasingly important to recycle these precious metals from a wide variety of industrial uses. For example, various catalytic processes in the chemical industry generate large amounts of fluid residue ...

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28-Sep-2007

The precious metals and technology group Heraeus has signed a cooperation agreement with Northeastern University in Shenyang, China, which will enhance the group's potential for research and innovation in Asia. In September Dr. Frank Heinricht, Vice Chairman of the Board of Management of Heraeus ...

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Conventional platinum gauze catalyst was further optimized

22-Aug-2007

Since early this year, the firm SASOL Nitro in South Africa has been using a newly developed multistage catalyst from the precious metals and technology group Heraeus for the selective destruction of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, in two of its nitric acid production plants. With this catalyst ...

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07-Aug-2007

On July 1, 2007, the W. C. Heraeus GmbH division of the international precious metals and technology group Heraeus acquired the French company Poudres de Soudure de Précision S.A. (PSP), which is headquartered in Grésy sur Aix. Established in 1995, PSP is a manufacturer of ultra-fine metal ...

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06-Jun-2007

Dr. Helmut Eschwey, Chairman of the Board of Management, will resign from the Board of Management by end of his official term next year August 31, 2008. Dr. Frank Heinricht, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management, will succeed him on September 1, 2008 as new Chairman of the Board of ...

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