Recycle high-tech waste biologically

Innovative biotechnological process extracts gallium from industrial wastewater

18-Mar-2021 - Gallium is a rare metal, but it is widely used in the high-tech industry. This extreme contrast makes recycling indispensable. However, current recycling processes are costly and chemically polluted. Biotechnological approaches, therefore, rely on peptides, as they are able to bind metallic ...

Textile dyeing without effluent

Reverse osmosis and ion exchange go hand in hand

14-Feb-2017 - Bleaching and dyeing textile fibers and fabrics without causing any environmental pollution through effluent may sound too good to be true. And yet “minimal liquid discharge” (MLD) and “zero liquid discharge” (ZLD) – i.e. the minimization or complete avoidance of liquid waste – are already a ...

Here comes the long-sought-after iron-munching microbe

26-Oct-2016 - A microbe that ‘eats’ both methane and iron: microbiologists have long suspected its existence, but were not able to find it - until now. Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen discovered a microorganism that couples the reduction of iron ...

akvola Technologies Secures Series A Financing Round

08-Aug-2016 - akvola Technologies, a water technology company providing solutions for the removal of oils and suspended solids from hard-to-treat industrial effluents, has announced the completion of its Series A financing round. In addition to the private investors and industry experts Bruno Steis (ex-CEO of ...

Tiny microbots that can clean up water

Self-propelled tiny ‘microbots’ that can remove pollution from contaminated water developed.

03-May-2016 - Working with colleagues in Barcelona and Singapore, Samuel Sánchez’s group used graphene oxide to make their microscale motors, which are able to adsorb lead from industrial wastewater from a level of 1000 parts-per-billion to down to below 50 parts-per-billion in just an hour. The lead can ...

ThyssenKrupp Nirosta: acid recovery system installed in Krefeld cold rolling mill

26-Jun-2009 - ThyssenKrupp Nirosta is now using an enhanced technology to recycle the spent mixed acid from the annealing and pickling lines at the Krefeld cold rolling mill. The new regeneration system allows valuable substances to be recovered and fed back to the processing lines. “This innovative process ...

Henkel is “Most Sustainable Brand”

German Sustainability Award goes to Henkel

12-Dec-2008 - Combining economic success with corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been a core issue for Henkel throughout its more than 130-year history, according to the company. The globally active brands manufacturer has now received the accolade of “Germany’s Most Sustainable Brand”. The award is in ...

Kendro Laboratory Products acquires H+P Labortechnik

07-May-2004 - Kendro Laboratory Products has strengthened its commitment to growth in the life science market with the acquisition of H+P Labortechnik AG. H+P provides sterilizers, high performance stirrers, and biosafe waste water sterlizers for the pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, and medical markets. ...