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Rethinking the Base Material Side

Plafco Fibertech, founded in 2017, was created as a spin-off from an EU-research project coordinated by Jukka Valkama, a professor at the Cooperative State University of Baden Wurttemberg in Karlsruhe, Germany.

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Vaccine Filling at the Highest Level

Recent studies show that contract manufacturers for the pharmaceutical industry, so-called CDMOs (contract development and manufacturing organizations), have so far been little involved in the production of vaccines. This is changing with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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New Ammonia Synthesis Technology

Tsubame BHB was established in April of 2017 based on a new catalyst technology developed by Prof. em. Hideo Hosono at the ­Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), which allows an ammonia process at lower temperature and pressure.

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Accelerated Drug Discovery

In January, Schrödinger, a provider of integrated software solutions, and the life sciences company Bayer announced a 5-year technology alliance to develop a comprehensive de novo design solution to accelerate the discovery of innovative, high-quality drugs.

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Reshaping Adhesion - and the Industry

Hybrid assemblies, joints of dissimilar materials, are everywhere - in our smartphones, cars, TVs, dishwashers, in planes and so on. However, in modern products we increasingly rely on plastics, which are intrinsically hard to bond to other types of material — and by using industrial glue for the bonding the parts cannot be recy­cled easily. Solving this monumental challenge inspired the foun­dation of the Danish start-up company RadiSurf five years ago.

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Creating the AI-Powered Future of Chemistry

Molecule.one leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to design novel chemical syntheses. As a response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Polish start-up based in Warsaw has set out on the mission to accelerate the process of creating medicines.

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Smart Tools for Chemical Research

Iris.ai was founded at Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Park in 2015. Challenged to come up with an idea that would positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, the team was formed and problem areas were explored.

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