POWTECH and PARTEC 2023 – three days of processing and particle technology at the highest level

27-Sep-2023 - From 26 to 28 September 2023, POWTECH in Nuremberg will once again become the hot spot for international experts in processing technology from a wide range of user segments, especially the food and feed, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. In four exhibition halls, 553 exhibitors from 27 ...

analytica: Significant upswing in international spin-offs

Country-specific challenges

26-Sep-2023 - The five international analytica trade fairs that make up the international cluster of the world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology registered some significant increase in visitors and exhibitors this year. With the successful local spin-offs in China, ...

Researchers develop efficient process for chemical terpene synthesis

Potential applications in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries

20-Feb-2023 - A team of scientists led by Professor Tanja Gulder at Leipzig University’s Institute of Organic Chemistry, together with colleagues from the University of Regensburg, has developed a simplified and efficient method for the artificial production of terpenes. Terpenes are a very extensive and ...

Green chemistry: BAM investigates pharmaceutical production without solvents and CO₂ emissions

Pharmaceutical production with mechanochemistry

28-Nov-2022 - The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is developing a more sustainable process to produce active pharmaceutical ingredients in a major EU project: The pilot project is intended to demonstrate the advantages of mechanochemistry for more environmentally friendly and CO2-neutral ...

ACHEMA 2022 offers new impulses for the process industry

Final Report ACHEMA 2022

29-Aug-2022 - At ACHEMA 2022, the world's leading trade show for the process industry, over 2,200 exhibitors from more than 50 countries showcased the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries at the Frankfurt fairgrounds from 22 to 26 August. Whether it was ...

WACKER Strengthens Biologics Business by Acquiring US-Based Plasmid DNA Manufacturer Genopis

Expansion of WACKER's portfolio as a contract manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry

04-Feb-2021 - The Munich-based chemical company WACKER is acquiring 100 percent of the shares in pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Genopis Inc. from Helixmith Co Ltd, Seoul (South Korea) and Medivate Partners LLC, Seoul (South Korea). WACKER signed a corresponding agreement. WACKER will continue Genopis' ...

‘Chemputer’ promises app-controlled revolution for drug production

03-Dec-2018 - A radical new method of producing drug molecules, which uses downloadable blueprints to easily and reliably synthesise organic chemicals via a programmable ‘chemputer’, could be set to democratise the pharmaceutical industry, scientists say. In a new paper published online in the journal Science, ...

Two new ways to fluorinated structures

Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of fluorinated antibiotics

07-Aug-2018 - Fluorinated structures make up more than 20 percent of modern drugs, but benign and fast fluorination schemes are scarce. In a study scientists have now combined dynamic kinetic resolution and nucleophilic fluorination for the asymmetric synthesis of florfenicol, a veterinary antibiotic. After ...

Successful ACHEMA closes in Frankfurt

15-Jun-2018 - At the trade show for the process industry, more than 3,700 exhibitors from 55 countries showcased the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharma and food industry. Whether in the classic process technology hall, the pump exhibition or in the plant engineering section, ...

Libraries for Proteins

Dynamic combinatorial libraries generated from hydrazone-functionalized surface mimetics

29-May-2018 - Combinatorial libraries are a key component of the chemist's toolkit for ligand screening. Dynamic combinatorial libraries add a new dimension by interlinking synthesis and screening. Now, British scientists have developed a dynamic combinatorial library for the screening of supramolecular ligand ...