Bioforsense — From Waste to Value
CH-Bioforce, based in Raisio, Finland, strives for a cleaner world.
Innovation
EPA Awards $7.7 Million for Chemical Risk Assessment
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $7.7 million in research grant funding to 11 technology institutions to develop and evaluate innovative methods and approaches to inform understanding of the human health risks of exposure to chemical mixtures in the environment.
Halving Chemical Manufacturing Costs
Traditional batch chemistry is too inefficient for a sustainable future. Switching batch processing to continuous processing is inevitable if the world is to reach net zero.
Sustainable Industrial Wastewater Treatment
For decades, Ferrate(VI) has been known as the strongest oxidant in the world for the treatment of (industrial) wastewater.
Evonik Sells TAeTTOOz Battery Technology to InnovationLab
Evonik is selling the TAeTTOOz materials technology for printable rechargeable batteries to InnovationLab, a company that helped developed it in partnership with the chemical producer’s Creavis “strategic development arm.
AI Makes Drug Discovery Faster
Interview with Joachim Haupt and Florian Kaiser, PharmAI
Challenging the Status Quo
Management pays a lot of attention to new ideas and cutting-edge technologies, but most of their resources are consumed by mature legacy technologies that are often not actively and rigorously managed. A visual matrix can help teams understand which technologies offer the greatest long-term potential for businesses.
Where Science Meets Business
From its inception in 1881, SCI's principal objective has been to further the application of chemistry and related sciences into industry for the public benefit.
Röhm Breaks Ground on Innovation Center in Worms
German methaycrylates specialist Röhm recently broke ground on a new state-of-the-art innovation center at Worms, Germany. The new facility, which will employ around 100 scientists, is designed to further expand its technology leadership, the company said.
Enabling the Best Possible Drug
Interview with Oliver Reimann and Andreas Regnery, Belyntic
Making Demanding Applications Bio-Based
Biovox was founded in 2020 to enable more sustainability through renewable bioplastics even in difficult applications such as consumables in healthcare or machine parts.
Transforming the Scale-Up of Biobased Molecules
Interview with Jere Koskinen and Ali Harlin, Mega Cellulose.
Redesigning Tomorrow’s Plastics Today
B4Plastics is a Belgium-based biotechnology start-up and a polymer architecture company looking to catalyze the introduction of novel biomaterials and growing them from niche to bulk applications.
Artificial Intelligence for New Drug Design
Digital tools are a key to shortening the development of active pharmaceutical ingredients and thus market-ready drugs and therapies.
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.
Paving the Way for Sustainable Infection Control
LipoCoat is a biotech company specialized in ‘bio-inspired’ coatings that improve the safety, comfort, and performance of medical devices with a focus on health and nutrition.
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.
And the Winners Are: Affix Labs, Caphenia, and Senorics
The CHEManager Innovation Pitch, CHEManager's start-up support initiative, entered its third year in January. But that wasn't the end of the 2020 cohort, as there were still the CHEManager Innovation Pitches of the Year to be selected. This took place at the end of January in a virtual jury session.
Excited About Coatings
Affix Labs over the past 5 years has specialized in binding technologies and commercialized first products in 2019.
A New Standard for Process Simulation — and Beyond
Hafnium Labs is tackling one of the toughest challenges in chemical R&D: Obtaining reliable physical property data — fast.
Trade, Innovation and Investment
US chemistry remains in demand around the world despite ongoing trade tensions and Covid-19. In 2019, the US chemical industry was one of the world’s largest exporters, at $136 billion. The industry has a large and growing trade surplus, reaching more than $35 billion in 2019.
Advancing Sustainable Chemical Solutions
Without products based directly or indirectly on chemicals, life as we know it would be unsustainable. According to various sources, more than 95% of the products around us are either made by the chemical industry or involve at least one chemical process step in their manufacture.
The Importance of Innovation for Future Success
Innovative strength has been a cornerstone of Bachem’s business success since the founding nearly 50 years ago. Günther Loidl, Chief Technology Officer for Bachem Holding, talks about a new innovation management system that will further heighten the importance of innovation in the future.
Revolutionizing Surface Functionalization
Single-step, Ambient, Dry Grafting of Organic Compounds and Biomolecules onto any Substrate.
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.
Contributing to the Circular Economy
Cellugy was founded two years ago by a diverse team of young academics and professionals from Spain, Indonesia, Albania, and Denmark. Working together at Aarhus University in Denmark, the idea of developing a material based on nanocellulose as an alternative to plastic barrier coatings arose and grew into a start-up and a first product. Co-founders Isabel Alvarez-Martos and Deby Fapyane talk about their motivation and vision.
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.
Flow Chemistry - A Mature Technology still on the Rise
The change in many chemical companies’ product portfolio away from commodities to customer-specific specialties is one of the current challenges facing the process industry.
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.
