Dr. Uwe Liebelt to become President of BASF’s Paper Chemicals division

Lars Wallstein appointed CEO of OQEMA Group

The 2026 Wolf Prize Goes to a Berlin Chemist

Prof. Dr. Drs. h.c. Helmut Schwarz receives the $100,000 prize in chemistry for solving fundamental problems in catalysis

Change at TOPTICA Executive Board

Wilhelm Kaenders steps down as CTO

hte is getting a dual leadership structure: Denis Hürtgen and Michael Paul take over leadership

Markus Bold is stepping down from hte's executive board

Carlos Negro Assumes Chairmanship of the World Chemical Engineering Council

Making Chemistry Greener: The 2026 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Professor Marc Koper

His findings are crucial to advancing the use of renewable energy and the development of sustainable chemistry

BASF focuses on strengthening and growing its core businesses in the next phase of its “Winning Ways” strategy

BASF to operate core businesses at up to 20­% lower net cash fixed costs by 2029

LEVACO invests in Brazil

Specialty chemicals company further expands Brazil as a strategic growth market for agrochemicals and food chemicals

Recovering critical materials from batteries

Chinese inventors selected as finalists for the European Inventor Award 2026

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Evonik reorganizes its executive leadership: CEO stays on, CFO joins

Christian Kullmann to remain CEO until 2030

Leonhard Zirkler takes over management of HÖFER CHEMIE

Izatt-Christensen Award 2026 for Frank Würthner

A professor of chemistry at the University of Würzburg receives the highest international honour in the field of supramolecular chemistry

Endress+Hauser tops four-billion-euro mark for the first time

Swiss Group invests 370.8 million euros – more than ever before

Alfa Laval appoints Olaf van Heerikhuizen as new Managing Director for the DACH region

The manager will take over the management of Alfa Laval Mid Europe and will be responsible for activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

VTU Engineering Germany gets new managing director

Dr. Mickael Planasch takes over the management together with Hubert Apfelmaier and is to lead the German business into a new growth phase

Roland Fornika elected President of FECCIA

VAA Executive Board takes over leadership of 100,000 chemical and pharmaceutical professionals in Europe

Alexandra Knauer mit Pittcon Heritage Award ausgezeichnet

Visa problem prevents arrival: KNAUER managing director honored via video

OXEA completes global leadership team for strategic realignment

Chemicals company launches next phase of transformation with seven executives and five strategic pillars

Arkema appoints Nicola Tei managing director for Italy

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Cooking plastics into oil

University of Amsterdam pilot plant brings advanced plastic recycling technology closer to industry

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

A scalable strategy for developing next-generation electrocatalysts for efficient and sustainable chemical production

Making Chemistry Greener: The 2026 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Professor Marc Koper

His findings are crucial to advancing the use of renewable energy and the development of sustainable chemistry

MIT researchers develop a low-cost technique to get lithium out of rocks

MIT spinout Rock Zero aims to make U.S. lithium production less dependent on China

Bacterial factories: A key to climate-friendly chemistry

ETH spin-off uses genetically modified microorganisms and green methanol as an intermediate step in fossil-free chemical production

Faster and more energy-efficient: Catalysts boost hydrogen-based steel production

Nickel oxides accelerate hydrogen-based steel production by a factor of two

A Step Forward for Solar-Driven Ammonia Production

Iron-containing MOF catalysts enable ammonia synthesis without the extreme conditions of the Haber-Bosch process.

It may not just be what’s in ultra-processed foods, but how they’re made

New observational study suggests processing itself could partly explain links to diabetes, heart disease, and early death

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

Compounds created by the Maillard reaction during coffee bean roasting tame caffeine’s bitterness

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

Mini-Brains from Patient Cells Point to Vitamin B3 as Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease

Lab-grown brain organoids revealed cholesterol build-up in astrocytes as the driver of DHDDS-related neurodegeneration.

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Insect larvae as a screening tool

How wax moth larvae can help reduce the need for mammalian testing in infection research

Researchers find fructose sends a weaker “I’m full” signal to the brain than glucose

Findings shed light on how sugar type influences what and how much we decide to eat

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

Carbon nanotubes make the electronic nose suitable for everyday use for the first time

The smart fridge of the future: E-nose warns of off chicken and nut allergens

New technology detects bacteria on surfaces in five minutes using a smartphone

UMass spun off HertZ Innovation launches smartphone-based bacterial test

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

Invisible battle between bacteria determines the flavour and safety of salami

Research could lead to safer products, more consistent quality, and potentially new flavours and textures

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Daily glass of 100% fruit juice could help support mental wellbeing

Simple diet change cuts depression scores in adults with low fruit intake

Turning food waste into carbon captors

Expected to be cheaper than other capture methods

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis