CHT Group focuses on sustainable growth

Investments at record level

16-Apr-2025 - Based on preliminary figures, the CHT Group, a global supplier of specialty chemicals based in Tübingen, demonstrated its resilience and strategic foresight in the 2024 financial year. Despite volatile global conditions, the company recorded sales growth to EUR 614.3 million (+2%) and a ...

Shipping of the future: biodegradable antifouling coatings for clean seas

Interdisciplinarity as the key to sustainable material innovation

04-Apr-2025 - More sustainable antifouling coatings for ships are in demand. These innovative solutions should largely dispense with biocides and still withstand the challenges of maritime use. As part of the "BioSHIP" project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) ...

ALTANA achieves double-digit growth in 2024 and invests heavily in the future

Sales increase by 16 percent to 3,169 million euros

25-Mar-2025 - The specialty chemicals group ALTANA achieved double-digit growth in the 2024 fiscal year while once again making significant investments in the future. The company increased its sales by 16 percent to 3,169 million euros (previous year: 2,742 million euros). One growth driver was heightened ...

New material for efficient separation of Deuterium at elevated Temperatures

21-Mar-2025 - A novel porous material capable of separating deuterium (D2) from hydrogen (H2) at a temperature of 120 K has been introduced. Notably, this temperature exceeds the liquefaction point of natural gas, thus facilitating large-scale industrial applications. This advancement presents an attractive ...

New process to enable the conversion of CO2 into sustainable basic chemicals

13-Mar-2025 - The sustainable production of chemical base materials using CO2 as a carbon source is the goal of the "PKat4Chem" project. The project partners involved aim at further developing the process of low-temperature plasma catalysis so that gases produced from biomass can be converted into methanol or ...

Will the world's chemical factories smell like beach vacations in the future?

Research team finds approach to how algae can help in the production of everyday chemicals

11-Mar-2025 - Chemicals containing chlorine are an integral part of our everyday lives. However, chlorination, i.e. the incorporation of chlorine into compounds, is difficult and often a burden for humans and the environment, but can hardly be replaced. A team led by chemist Tanja Gulder from Saarland ...

Synthetic Carbon Assimilation Surpasses Nature

New-to-Nature Pathway Outperforms Natural Pathway in Living Bacteria

07-Mar-2025 - For the first time, an international collaboration has demonstrated that synthetic carbon assimilation can operate more efficiently in a living system than its natural counterpart. Researchers in Tobias Erb’s lab at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology engineered a synthetic ...

Polyurethane with Shape Memory: From Foil to Foam

Isocyanate-free foaming increases occupational safety

24-Feb-2025 - Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have developed a foil that changes into polyurethane foam (PU foam) when heated – entirely without health risks. The foil allows for isocyanate-free foaming, thus improving workplace safety. Additionally, it offers logistics ...

Cutting-edge technology for everyone

European innovation platform offers companies access to resource-saving production methods

11-Feb-2025 - Over the past four years, Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences has worked with 25 partners from seven countries on cutting-edge technological solutions for the production of bio-based polyurethanes (PUR). Sustainability was a central pillar of the BIOMAT project. The bio-based PUR foams ...

Innovative plant to turn wood into biochemicals

First of its kind plant lays groundwork for production of consumer goods with reduced CO2 footprint

04-Feb-2025 - Industrial services provider Bilfinger enters into a 6-year framework agreement with UPM Biochemicals covering comprehensive maintenance services for a new, sustainable production plant: At its Leuna site, UPM Biochemicals is currently building the world’s first biorefinery for the production of ...