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24.03.2025 • News

Coco Custo – Clean Clothes, Cleaner Ingredients, Clean Sea

The Indian, woman-led startup Coco Custo is pioneering more sustainable cleaning solutions with its biodegradable laundry detergent and other eco-friendly cleaning powders. Formulated primarily from plant-based ingredients and minerals, including organic oils and coconut, Coco Custo’s products are non-toxic, hypoallergenic, and free from harmful chemicals.

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01.02.2025 • ProductInnovation

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.

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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.

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06.01.2025 • News

GemmaBio Secures $34 Million in Funding

Gemma Biotherapeutics (GemmaBio), a new therapeutics company founded by gene therapy pioneer Jim Wilson, recently announced the completion of a $34 million seed funding round to accelerate its groundbreaking gene therapy initiatives.

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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.

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31.10.2024 • News

Renasens - No Waste, Only Resources

The female-led Swedish start-up Renasens has developed a clean, waterless recycling technology that transforms textile waste into valuable new resources.

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13.09.2024 • News

Ucaneo Secures Seed Funding

Ucaneo, a provider of innovative direct air capture (DAC) technologies for CO2 removal, has raised €6.75 million in seed funding including grants.

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13.09.2024 • News

Egrobots – New Technologies for a more Sustainable Agriculture

Egrobots, a start-up from Egypt, developed a solution for efficient farm monitoring and management using AI and robotics. Their innovation includes an autonomous robot, that roams around the farm, scanning the plants on a leaf-level with high resolution and an AI that analyses this data.

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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.

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19.03.2024 • NewsInnovation

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.

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18.03.2024 • News

Ecorich Solutions – Turning waste into food

African start-up Ecorich Solutions uses an innovative technology called “the Wastebot decomposer machine” to convert organic waste into organic fertilizer. The process involves the breakdown of organic waste using soil based microbial enzymes under a temperature regulated mechanism.

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19.02.2024 • News

Bioweg – Revolutionizing The Future Of Bio-Ingredients

The German start-up Bioweg found a way to replace petroleum-based chemicals with innovative bio-alternatives through fermentation and green chemistry. The processing of waste products results in bacterial cellulose, which serves as a substitute for synthetic polymers and thus has diverse potential applications.

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13.12.2023 • NewsInnovation

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.

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11.12.2023 • NewsInnovation

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.

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11.12.2023 • NewsInnovation

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).

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CHEManager Spotlight

Standardization and Harmonization of Digital Chemical and Pharmaceutical Logistics
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Standardization and Harmonization of Digital Chemical and Pharmaceutical Logistics

CHEManager Spotlight is an exclusive event tailored for practitioners and decision-makers in the chemical industry. This part of our event series delves into the latest trends and innovations in logistics to streamline your operations and drive efficiency.