Innovation Unleashed: How Specialty Chemicals Are Powering the Next Wave of Scientific Breakthroughs
Technical Expertise and Versatility of Specialty Chemicals to Meet Every Research and Commercial Challenge
Innovation
20.10.2025 • News • Innovation
Brenntag Specialties Opens New Innovation & Application Center for Food & Nutrition in UK
The Leeds Innovation & Application Center is the newest of the now 71 Brenntag Specialties innovation centers globally, 31 of which focus on Food & Nutrition.
17.10.2025 • News
Roquette Opens Pharmaceutical Innovation Center in Brazil
Roquette has inaugurated a new Pharmaceutical Innovation Center in Brazil to support advanced research and development in the region’s pharmaceutical sector.
Polyvantis Opens Shanghai Technology Center
Polyvantis has opened a new Technology Center in Shanghai, China, to unite R&D, commercial, and manufacturing teams and accelerate innovation for optical and electrical film solutions.
10.10.2025 • Topics • Innovation
Lead or Lag: Europe’s AI Materials Race
How AI and Robotics are reshaping the race for materials discovery.
01.10.2025 • News • Innovation
Groundbreaking of Chemical Invention Factory in Berlin
"Chemical Invention Factory – John Warner Center for Start-ups in Green Chemistry" is to become Europe's largest laboratory infrastructure for transfer and pre-start-up teams in green chemistry.
18.09.2025 • Topics • Innovation
Turning Water into Fuel
Elementarhy uses a revolutionary plasma technology, positioning it as a leader in supplying cost-efficient and scalable Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) to electrolyzer manufacturers.
Bringing Biocatalytic Processes from Early Idea to Industrial Scale
Aminoverse enables players in the chemical industry to onboard more cost-efficient and sustainable manufacturing by delivering the right enzyme and process.
26.08.2025 • News • Innovation
Bunko Junko – Transforming Fashion, Embracing Sustainability
Bunko Junko is a women-led Indian start-up that transforms industrial fabric scraps – typically considered waste – into unique fashion products such as clothing, decorative items, and gifts.
• 20.08.2025 • Topics • Innovation
Beacons of the Start-up Scene, part 5: MIR Insight
Tapping into Future-oriented Synergies of Data Analysis in the Materials Sector
09.07.2025 • News
Industrial Green Chemistry Association Launches
Today, leading chemistry entrepreneurs from across Europe announced the founding of a new Industrial Green Chemistry Association dedicated to represent the interests of chemistry startups and innovation-driven SMEs.
Powering Progress: An AI-ready Data Strategy to Drive More Efficient Innovation
Build an AI-ready Data Strategy to Drive Faster Insights, Smarter R&D, and Measurable ROI.
14.05.2025 • Topics • Innovation
Innovative PLA Catalyst Solution
Enhancing Manufacturing with Faster, Cleaner, High-crystallinity Processes
30.04.2025 • News
Petronas Inaugurates Specialty Chemicals Laboratory in Shanghai
Perstorp and BRB, subsidiaries of Petronas Chemicals Group (PCG), inaugurated an innovation hub in Shanghai, China. The laboratory will support growth in the region by increasing technical support for customers.
17.04.2025 • News
AC Biode – Chemical Technology for a more Sustainable Future
AC Biode developed a diverse portfolio of products based on chemical technology designed to provide more sustainable alternatives to conventional practices.
16.04.2025 • News
Ineos Inovyn launches 9th Global Award
The awards are designed to recognise pioneering ideas and showcase the vital role vinyl plays.
11.04.2025 • News • Bioprocessing
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.
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
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.
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.
20.09.2024 • News
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.
17.06.2024 • News
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.
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
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.
09.04.2024 • News
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.
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.
