Ineos Inovyn launches 9th Global Award
The awards are designed to recognise pioneering ideas and showcase the vital role vinyl plays.
Innovation
Asahi Kasei Launches Life Science Division to Boost Bioprocess Innovation
To meet growing demand from the pharmaceutical industry, Asahi Kasei has established Asahi Kasei Life Science to operate its bioprocess businesses under a new organizational structure.
Sustainable Paper Additives
Paper is a sustainable material by nature. However, many paper products need to be treated with additives such as wet strength agents or sizing agents to improve their properties for certain applications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pioneering Sustainability in Pharma Excipients
Interview with Olli Kähkönen, Nordic Bioproducts Group
Giving Environmental Data an Exact Price Tag for Businesses
Interview with Franziska Walde and Lukas Fischer, Refinq
Next Level Chemical Distribution
Dorothee Arns, Director General of FECC, discusses current challenges, market trends and her vision for the chemical distribution industry in Europe.
“Quo vadis, Europe?”
Today, economic success is defined by a different perception and practice of supply capability and supply security. This applies not only to the European trade with chemicals but to the entire chemical value chain.
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.
Lonza Launches Innovaform Accelerator
Lonza inaugurated its new facility at the Colmar, France site. The new Innovaform Accelerator will serve as a Center of Excellence for developing and innovating capsule-based manufacturing and delivery solutions for oral and pulmonary administration.
Huntsman Opens New Innovation Center in Belgium
Last week, US chemical producer Huntsman opened a new innovation center in Tienen, Belgium, strengthening its research and development (R&D) capabilities.
Formulating Innovative Concepts
Matthias Hofmann, Group Innovation & Technology Management Director at Azelis, provides an in-depth insight into the company’s innovation activities and the underlying market trends.
Innovation Through Formulation
Anna Bertona, Group CEO at Azelis, looks back on her first six month in this role and gives an insight into her plans for the company's development.
At the Cutting Edge of Catalysis Innovation
In this interview, Phillip Chalabi, Umicore’s director Strategic Projects and Innovation, gives an overview of the company’s activities in precious metal chemistry.
Roquette Invests in Danish Start-up Biograil
Roquette, a French multinational supplier of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical excipients, announced an investment by its venture capital arm Roquette Ventures in Danish start-up Biograil.
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.
Merck Establishes Digital Hub in Singapore
German chemicals, pharmaceuticals and life sciences group Merck has opened a digital hub in Singapore, the first outside of the US and Europe for its digital business.
Preparing for Sustainability-Driven Growth
Rising demand for sustainability-related products will create a huge growth opportunity for chemical companies.
Unleashing Sustainable Innovation, Navigating Business, and Pioneering a Greener Future
In today’s world, where environmental sustainability is at the forefront of global concerns, green chemistry stands as a beacon of hope. This field focuses on inventing sustainable solutions that mitigate the harmful impact of traditional chemical processes.
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.
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.
The Green Power of Catalysis
With more than 80% of all chemical products manufactured using catalytic processes, catalysts are the number one value generator in the chemical industry.
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.
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).
Graphene for Sustainable Development
Interview with Alban Chesneau and Nicolas Castet, Carbon Waters
Surfactants: Solving Challenges at Interfaces
From agrochemicals to textiles: the broad range of use of surfactants will be at the center of interest of the 11th World Surfactants Congress, CESIO 2019 in Munich
Fueling the Circular Carbon Economy
Interview with Florian Hildebrand, Greenlyte Carbon Technologies
Johnson Matthey Set to Catalyze the Net Zero Transition
Johnson Matthey (JM) looks back at a legacy of 200+ years. Established in 1817, the London, England-based chemical company reported annual revenues of about €18 billion in 2022. JM has built a global presence with operations in more than 30 countries. The company’s strategy is based on the vision for a cleaner, healthier world and mirrors society’s need to create a more sustainable future. JM has set out to catalyze the net zero transition by delivering sustainable solutions to customers enabled by innovative technology and leading positions in JM’s key markets automotive, chemicals, and energy. To get a better understanding of the role JM’s technological developments play for a sustainable future, Michael Reubold spoke with Maurits van Tol, the company’s Chief Technology Officer.
Silicone Recycling without Loss of Quality
Interview with Klara Yoon, Tina Rose and Stephan Enthaler, New Dawn
