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Spin-off Altosens launches Fraunhofer technology on the market

18-Apr-2023 - Whether in the industrial environment, in mobility or at home: "Smart services" require data that is processed and evaluated. Altosens GmbH, a Fraunhofer LBF spin-off from Osnabrück founded in April 2022, offers novel cloud-based force sensors that measure forces where this was previously not ...

Merck Announces Significant Investment in the World’s Largest Integrated Specialty Gases Facility

Investment of around €300 million

14-Apr-2023 - Merck announced an agreement with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to support expansion plans at its semiconductor manufacturing site in Hometown. This expansion is part of Merck's Level Up growth program, announced by its Electronics business sector in late 2021, which aims to invest over € 3 ...

Linde and Heidelberg Materials Announce Large-Scale Carbon Capture Project

The facility is scheduled to go into operation as early as 2025 with a capture capacity of around 70,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year

13-Apr-2023 - Heidelberg Materials and Linde have established a joint venture under the name "Capture-to-Use" (CAP2U) to build and operate a state-of-the-art carbon dioxide capture and liquefaction plant. The world's first industrial-scale carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) facility in the cement industry is ...

Looking for Start-up (ideas) in chemical engineering, chemistry and biotechnology

ACHEMA Start-Up Award

12-Apr-2023 - In the run-up to ACHEMA 2024, DECHEMA, the Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain and the High-Tech Gründerfonds are announcing the ACHEMA Start-up Award to support creators of tomorrow in paving the way for innovations in chemistry, process engineering and biotechnology! On the road from ...

Evonik sells Lülsdorf site - First step in the divestment of Performance Materials

Established chemical group plans to invest substantially in the site

12-Apr-2023 - Evonik is selling its site in Lülsdorf (Germany) and the associated cyanuric chloride business in Wesseling (Germany) to International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG, Luxembourg). The agreement was signed. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Lülsdorf is a substantial part ...

thyssenkrupp Uhde to cooperate with IDIP on fabrication of new modular plants for green ammonia

Green ammonia is key for global CO2-free energy chains

06-Apr-2023 - thyssenkrupp Uhde and IDESA INDUSTRIAL PLANTS SLU (IDIP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on developing and fabricating modules for green ammonia projects. The MoU was signed in Essen, Germany on March 23, 2023. The agreement will focus on the development of a joint ...

Instrumental elemental analysis: A silent star turns 125

Why the method is today still a booster for innovation

05-Apr-2023 - Over the past 125 years, elemental analysis has conquered industry after industry. It was an indispensable tool for the pioneers of organic chemistry. In fact, it made the pioneering chemical syntheses of the 19th century possible in the first place. Elemental analysis is not only a mainstay in ...

LAUDA invests in start-up for sustainable magnetic cooling technology

Future invesment in cooling solutions with-out refrigerants

05-Apr-2023 - Together with other investors, temperature control specialist LAUDA has invested in the start-up MAGNOTHERM. With this round of financing, concluding at over 5 million EUR, the multiple award-winning start-up plans to start serial production of its first sustainable refrigerator. LAUDA has been ...

Dr Stephan Glander starts as new CEO of Biesterfeld AG

05-Apr-2023 - Dr Stephan Glander (54), with effect of 1 April 2023, has taken over as CEO of the Biesterfeld Group. On his start as CEO, Dr Stephan Glander says: "I would like to thank the Biesterfeld family, the Supervisory Board, and, above all others, Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dirk J. Biesterfeld ...

Frederique van Baarle assumes position on the LANXESS Board of Management

04-Apr-2023 - Frederique van Baarle has taken up her position as a member of the Board of Management and Labor Director at Cologne-based specialty chemicals company LANXESS effective April 1, 2023. Until the end of March van Baarle headed the High Performance Materials business unit at LANXESS, which was ...