13.09.2023 • News • Innovation
Graphene for Sustainable Development
Interview with Alban Chesneau and Nicolas Castet, Carbon Waters
Start-ups
20.07.2023 • News
Block Solutions: a Sustainable and Affordable Way of Building Houses
Block Solutions is a Tampere, Finland-based company that has developed environmentally friendly block-modules made of recycled plastics or in combination with local excess raw materials.
21.06.2023 • News
Ecopapel: Biodegradable and Reusable Paper-based Food Packaging as an Alternative to Plastics
Colombia-based company Cali Food Papers started with new product line named Ecopapel that offers biodegradable, compostable and recyclable paper- and cardboard-based packaging for food.
17.05.2023 • News • Innovation
Fueling the Circular Carbon Economy
Interview with Florian Hildebrand, Greenlyte Carbon Technologies
17.05.2023 • News • Innovation
Building a Connected Shopfloor Workforce
Interview with John Papastylianou, Cyzag
28.04.2023 • News
Ginkgo and Visolis Work on Bio-based Isoprene
Ginkgo Bioworks is partnering with US startup Visolis to improve the latter’s biomanufacturing process for isoprene and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
24.03.2023 • News
Mycotex Develops Innovative Production Process for Personalized Clothing Made from Mycelium
With an innovative new production process, the Dutch start-up Mycotex allows for personalized clothing made from mycelium. With this contribution to sustainable chemistry the start-up aims to create a completely new supply chain for the fashion industry, an alternative to weaving, cutting and sewing.
20.03.2023 • Topics • Innovation
Silicone Recycling without Loss of Quality
Interview with Klara Yoon, Tina Rose and Stephan Enthaler, New Dawn
20.03.2023 • Topics • Innovation
Advanced Oxidation Treatment for Wastewater
Interview with Fajer Mushtaq and Silvan Staufert, Oxyle
27.02.2023 • News
EL MAT Sustainable Solutions Turns “Waste” Water into Valuable Products
The South African start-up EL MAT Sustainable Solutions found a way to produce electricity, purified water and fertilizers from wastewater – without the introduction of hazardous materials or expensive feedstocks.
23.02.2023 • News
Solvay Joins Genesis Consortium to Boost Biotech
Solvay’s venture capital fund has joined the Genesis Consortium, a global alliance of venture capital firms and corporations that support startups leveraging biotechnology to promote both human and planetary health.
22.02.2023 • News
New Biotech VC Vehicle Pledges Series A Funding Aid
A new venture capital vehicle launched by a group of biotech entrepreneurs is designed to act as a seed investor as well as a drug discovery co-pilot for biotech startups that need help with Series-A financing.
30.11.2022 • News • Innovation
Unlocking Forward-looking Data Analytics Synergies in the Materials Sector
Interview with Lisa Z. Mobech and Bjol R. Frenkenberger, MIR Insight
29.11.2022 • News • Innovation
Bioforsense — From Waste to Value
CH-Bioforce, based in Raisio, Finland, strives for a cleaner world.
31.10.2022 • News
Solvay Reuses Rosignano Limestone Residues
Solvay is collaborating with two companies to collect and reuse the limestone residues from its soda ash production in Rosignano, Italy. The move will enable the residues to be reused in construction and agriculture.
17.10.2022 • Topics • Innovation
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.
17.10.2022 • Topics • Innovation
Sustainable Industrial Wastewater Treatment
For decades, Ferrate(VI) has been known as the strongest oxidant in the world for the treatment of (industrial) wastewater.
12.09.2022 • News
Hovione Expands Continuous Manufacturing Capabilities
Portuguese CDMO Hovione has expanded its continuous manufacturing capabilities with the start-up of a new facility at Loures. The company said it can now offer customers a commercial continuous tableting platform to support their key needs.
17.05.2022 • Topics • Innovation
Empowering Frontline Workers with AI
Interview with Russ Fadel, Augmentir
16.05.2022 • Topics • Innovation
AI Makes Drug Discovery Faster
Interview with Joachim Haupt and Florian Kaiser, PharmAI
19.04.2022 • Topics • Innovation
Quantum Computational Toxicology
Interview with Pedro Lopes, FastCompChem
19.04.2022 • Topics • Innovation
Blockchain in Chemical Value Chains
Interview with Jens Schmidt, ReCarbonX
30.11.2021 • Topics • Innovation
Providing Circular Side Stream Solutions
Interview with Steven De Laet, InOpSys
30.11.2021 • Topics • Innovation
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.
16.09.2021 • Topics • Innovation
Transforming the Scale-Up of Biobased Molecules
Interview with Jere Koskinen and Ali Harlin, Mega Cellulose.
16.09.2021 • News • Innovation
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.
16.09.2021 • News • Innovation
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.
26.05.2021 • News • Innovation
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.
26.05.2021 • News • Innovation
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.
18.03.2021 • News • Innovation
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.
01.02.2021 • News
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.
04.12.2020 • News • Innovation
Excited About Coatings
Affix Labs over the past 5 years has specialized in binding technologies and commercialized first products in 2019.
04.12.2020 • Topics • Innovation
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.
