Evonik aligns two business lines with new growth strategy

Businesses outside core areas are to be sold or discontinued

16-Oct-2024 - Evonik is reorganizing two business lines to strengthen their growth prospects. Coating & Adhesive Resins and Health Care will focus on and concentrate future investments in their respective core businesses. The remaining businesses outside these cores are to be sold to new owners or incorporated ...

Heike Buskies heads BYK's global Plastics Additives business

19-Aug-2024 - Heike Buskies has taken over the management of the Global Business Line Plastics Additives at BYK. She joined the additives experts BYK in October 2012 when she left Evonik and started as Sales Manager Plastics Additives for Greater Europe. In July 2021, she took over responsibility for the ...

BYK to end production of additives containing PFAS

Last shipment of products containing PFAS by end of 2025

15-Aug-2024 - For years, BYK has been actively promoting extensive research efforts towards replacing its per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with more environmentally compatible alternatives. Dr. Stefan Mößmer, Managing Director Marketing & Commercial: “As a leading manufacturer of additives, we have ...

Harmful substances in soft plastic lures: Risks for anglers and the environment

Harmful phthalates and endocrine disruptors are released from common soft plastic baits

04-Jul-2024 - Soft plastic lures are increasingly being used in recreational angling worldwide. Their loss in the environment has raised concerns among anglers and environmentalists regarding possible environmental and health risks. A study on the potential effects of soft plastic lures on the environment and ...

Uptake of tire wear additives by vegetables grown for human consumption

Chemical residues from tyre wear detected in leafy vegetables for the first time

06-Jun-2024 - Car tires contain hundreds of chemical additives that can leach out of them. This is how they end up in crops and subsequently in the food chain. Researchers at the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have ...

Rethinking packaging: strengthening paper - with bio-based and biodegradable additives

French start-up FunCell receives 4.8 million euros

08-May-2024 - The Grenoble-based company, a spin-off from the CNRS research institute, has already proven its expertise. Just as importantly, they have also gained the trust of investors who are hoping for a growing market. In an investor round a few months ago, the inventors from Grenoble were able to raise ...

Chemovator invests in Detroit-based startup Heartland rethinking plastics using natural fiber reinforcements

Heartland helps manufacturers to reduce the product carbon footprint of plastic and rubber products

03-May-2024 - Chemovator, the business incubator and early-stage investor of BASF, has successfully finalized an investment in Heartland Industries. The Detroit-based startup is a frontrunner in the production of natural fiber plastic additives, and the latest addition to Chemovator's external-facing Elevate ...

Start-up Polytives starts a partnership with Nordmann

25-Apr-2024 - Polytives GmbH begins a partnership with the multinational chemical distributor Nordmann in Europe, Turkey and the UK in the field of high-performance polymer additives. Polytives develops and supplies patented, innovative polymer additives for the plastics industry that are designed to optimize ...

Mapping chemical footprints in European streams

Analysis shows a mix of chemicals that endanger invertebrate organisms in particular

11-Mar-2024 - It is well known that if chemicals from domestic sources enter water bodies via sewage treatment plants, agriculture, and industry, this can endanger freshwater ecosystems. In order to find out more about the pollution of European rivers, a research team from the Helmholtz Centre for ...

Evonik invests in Interface Polymers

Interface Polymers' technology simplifies processing and recycling of plastics

21-Mar-2023 - Evonik has invested in the British company Interface Polymers Ltd. This company’s Polarfin® additives simplify the processing of plastics such as mixtures with polyethylene or polypropylene. At the same time, its technology makes it possible to recycle such plastics, thereby solving one of the ...