CHEManager Innovation Pitch

14.05.2025 • News • Technology

Smart Tools for a Plastic-Free Future

Cutting Time and Cost of Developing Sustainable Products with AI-Powered Solutions

14.05.2025 • Topics • Innovation

Innovative PLA Catalyst Solution

Enhancing Manufacturing with Faster, Cleaner, High-crystallinity Processes

19.03.2025 • News • Innovation

Data-Driven Enzyme Immobilization

Inseit, based in Bern, develops biocatalysts for industrial setups using enzyme immobilization and biocomputation. Addressing biotech and sustainability challenges, Inseit was selected for Venture Leaders Biotech and won two Nucleate accelerator prizes.

19.03.2025 • News • Innovation

High-Performance Adsorbents: The Future of Clean Industry

Porelio's FOMS adsorbents target PFAS, metals, and genotoxins, outperforming commercial solutions with unmatched selectivity, innovation, and sustainability.

01.02.2025 • Product • Innovation

CHEManager Innovation Pitch

The CHEManager Innovation Pitch is both a showcase and a competition for start-ups in the chemical industry. Each year, industry experts select a winning start-up from the finalists.

24.01.2025 • News

And the Winners are: Cynio, EnaDyne and Green Li-ion

The CHEManager Innovation Pitch, the start-up promotion initiative of CHEManager and CHEManager International, has given more than 100 start-ups from over 15 countries the opportunity to present their innovative ideas, products and technologies to a broad target group since its launch in 2019.

11.12.2024 • News • Innovation

Pioneering Sustainability in Pharma Excipients

Interview with Olli Kähkönen, Nordic Bioproducts Group

11.12.2024 • News • Innovation

Giving Environmental Data an Exact Price Tag for Businesses

Interview with Franziska Walde and Lukas Fischer, Refinq

08.11.2024 • News

Future Prospects in Green Chemistry

The Discourse on Green Chemistry Interactive Pitch Competition, held on November 5, 2024, at Wiley's Berlin office as part of Berlin Science Week, showcased a range of innovative projects aimed at addressing critical environmental challenges.

11.09.2024 • News • Innovation

World’s Most Comprehensive Protein Search Engine

Interview with Johannes Kabisch (CSO), Joe Heenan (CEO) and Aron Eiermann (CTO), Proteineer

11.09.2024 • News • Innovation

The Subscription Revolution in Flow Chemistry

Interview with Sridhar Balaram, Founder and CEO of Flownetics Engineering.

05.06.2024 • News • Innovation

A Circular Economy for Batteries

Interview with Leon Ferrant, Green Li-ion

05.06.2024 • News • Innovation

Fighting Programmed Cell Death

Interview with Morgane Rousselot, SeaBeLife

19.03.2024 • News • Innovation

Noncanonical Amino Acids Made by Enzymes

Aralez Bio, a San Francisco-based start-up, has engineered a platform of enzymes that creates 100 times more compound diversity using processes that are also 50 times greener than conventional methods.

13.12.2023 • News • Innovation

Substitution of Biocides in Cooling Water Treatment

The Heidelberg-based start-up Blue Activity replaces 100% of biocides in cooling water treatment with natural, functional microorganisms. The product change increases the efficiency of cooling tower performance and reduces water consumption and operating costs.

12.12.2023 • News • Innovation

Accelerate Chemical and Material Development

Process manufacturing companies waste almost $100 billion globally every year while formulating novel materials and chemicals due to the trial-and-error approach to R&D and the lack of tools to leverage the experimental data in real-time.

11.12.2023 • News • Innovation

Making Lab Automation Actually Work

Manual experiment monitoring and data capture is still the status quo in most biotech and pharma labs, compromising efficiency and project timescales. But there is a better way.

11.12.2023 • News • Innovation

Accelerating Chemicals Innovation

The Spanish computational chemistry start-up Nextmol (Bytelab Solutions), a spin-off from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that accelerates research and innovation in sustainable specialty chemicals through “in silico” experiments using molecular modeling and artificial intelligence (AI).

13.09.2023 • News • Innovation

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Interview

Adapting to Tariffs and Strengthening Regional Networks

Specialty Chemicals in a Shifting World

Jennifer Abril, President & CEO of SOCMA, discusses the impact of new tariffs and the importance of regional supply networks in the specialty chemical industry.