Final Report ACHEMA 2024

Record internationality, record attendee numbers at the congress, satisfied exhibitors

24-Jun-2024 - At ACHEMA 2024, the world's leading trade show for the process industries, 2,842 exhibitors from 56 nations showed 106,001 participants from 141 countries the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical, food processing and related industries at the Frankfurt ...

A fungus converts cellulose directly into a novel platform chemical

A new process for the mass production of erythro-isocitric acid from waste could make the substance interesting for industry in the future

27-May-2024 - The fungus Talaromyces verruculosus can produce the chemical erythro-isocitric acid, which has received little attention on the market to date, directly from cheap plant waste and thus make it interesting for industrial utilization. Using the natural abilities of the non-genetically modified ...

TU Graz Bundles Its Strengths in Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence

09-May-2024 - In a multidisciplinary research project, researchers from the biosciences, process engineering and computer science want to massively increase efficiency in the development of new enzymes and process optimization. This should even enable the breakdown of forever chemicals. Graz University of ...

Schenck Process: Refocusing on core business after carve-out of the food division

Digital solutions and sustainable bulk solids processes at the heart

07-Sep-2023 - The long-established German-based company Schenck Process is moving into a more sustainable future after the carve-out of its food solutions to Hillenbrand/Coperion. The expert for process-critical bulk solids applications is now focusing 100% on its core competencies of weighing and feeding ...

POWTECH to rebrand as POWTECH TECHNOPHARM from 2025

07-Jul-2023 - POWTECH, the International Processing Trade Fair for Powder, Bulk Solids, Fluids and Liquids, is expanding its importance as the technology platform for the processing sector, and will in future operate under a new branding as POWTECH TECHNOPHARM. POWTECH 2023 will take place under its known ...

SIM contributes to the stability of bioprocesses

21-Jan-2022 - SIM has made a valuable contribution on the way to more stabilized bioprocesses. In the process, SIM has developed methods in which samples can be taken at different time points in the cultivation process and thereafter analyzed. By taking samples during cultivation, the course of both reactants ...

Novel virtual trade fair for the process industry

A new way to network and stay informed defies postponed or cancelled trade fairs: The "virtual process show" from 8 to 11 September 2020

22-Jun-2020 - From 8 to 11 September 2020, LUMITOS, a leading provider of B2B specialist portals and online marketing solutions, will be hosting the "virtual process show", a new digital meeting place for the process industry. In the halls of the virtual process show, an expected more than 100 exhibitors from ...

ACHEMA 2018: Great Expectations for the World Forum of the Process Industries

22-Aug-2017 - Some 9 months before the start there are unmistakable signs that ACHEMA 2018 will be a crowd-puller. More than 2700 exhibitors from all around the globe have already booked a stand at this leading show for the process industries in Frankfurt am Main. From 11 to 15 June 2018 they will be ...

Breakthrough in organic acid production

28-Mar-2017 - Scientists from Wageningen University & Research, in association with oil and gas company Total, have developed a new process for producing organic acids via a biotechnological method. The discovery of the Monascus ruber micro-organism proved to be the crucial step in the new process. The fungus ...

Sartorius Reviews Fiscal 2013 Results

05-Mar-2014 - The Sartorius Group closed fiscal 2013 with significant gains in sales revenue and earnings. At the annual press conference in Goettingen, Group CEO Dr. Joachim Kreuzburg emphasized that the company not only achieved all financial targets, but also has successfully moved forward with its ...