Startups shaping the future of Europe’s circular economy

Green Alley Award Finalists

03-Apr-2024 - The Green Alley Award, Europe’s first and longest-running award for startups and entrepreneurs pioneering the circular economy, has announced its finalists for 2024. Six startups have been selected from a total of over 300 applications and will pitch at the Green Alley Award finals on April 25, ...

Clever solutions for label and packaging processes in highly regulated industries such as the chemical sector

From idea to independence: BASF incubator Chemovator spins off first employee startup

27-Apr-2021 - BOXLAB Services GmbH is the first startup to celebrate its spin-off from Chemovator in April 2021. There, promising ideas outside of the core business of BASF are developed and build into scalable business models and companies. With the right resources, the necessary freedom and respective ...

ALTANA acquires the business of the coatings manufacturer Aquaprint

24-Mar-2010 - ALTANA has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Aquaprint GmbH. The company, which is based in Oyten, Lower Saxony, Germany, primarily produces coatings for in-mold labels and other labels as well as water-borne overprint varnishes for use on paper, cardboard, and foils. By way of an ...

Innovative materials and new printing processes driving printed electronics ahead

28-Jul-2009 - With nanoparticulate functional materials and innovative printing pro-cesses, researchers from BASF SE, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and Darmstadt Technical University are revolutionizing printing technology. Organic electronic products of future potential, such as photovoltaic ...

ALTANA acquires Water Ink Technologies

17-Jul-2009 - The specialty chemicals Group ALTANA has entered into an agreement to acquire the business of the North American company Water Ink Technologies, Inc. The company produces primarily water-based and UV inks, coatings and varnishes for narrow web applications at three sites in North Carolina (U.S.). ...

Polytos project launched by the “Forum Organic Electronics” excellence cluster

BMBF-sponsored excellence cluster project “Printed organic circuits and chips” (Polytos) started; consortium headed by Merck KGaA

30-Jun-2009 - Merck KGaA announced that it has launched the “Printed Organic Switches and Chips“ project (Polytos) together with its partners in the excellence cluster known as the “Forum Organic Electronics“. The aim of this project, which is being sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and ...

Bayer MaterialScience and Add-Vision sign license agreement on polymeric OLEDs

17-Jun-2009 - Bayer MaterialScience AG signed a technology and patent license agreement with Add-Vision Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Scotts Valley, California. The agreement grants Bayer MaterialScience and its affiliates certain rights to manufacture and sell flexible polymer organic light-emitting ...

BASF Venture Capital invests in US nanotechnology company NanoMas

17-Nov-2008 - BASF Venture Capital GmbH, Ludwigshafen, has invested in the US startup company NanoMas Technologies Inc. NanoMas develops inks containing silver nanoparticles that are easily processed to electrical circuits in printed electronics, solar cells and special adhesives. NanoMas Inc. raised $3.2 ...

New NanoMarkets Report States That Printed and Organic Sensor Market to Reach $2.3 Billion

13-Sep-2007 - The market for printed and organic sensors will reach $2.3 billion by 2015, according to a new study from NanoMarkets LC, an industry analyst firm based here. The report is the next in the firm's ongoing coverage of thin film, organic and printed electronics. NanoMarkets believes that sensors ...

3E Company Acquires HSE Systems

06-Jun-2007 - 3E Company(r), provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, announced that it has acquired HSE Systems, the developer of MSDgen, an enterprise solution for authoring and distributing material safety data sheets (MSDS) and labels. 3E Company ...