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Defos­sil­ising the chem­ic­als and derived mater­i­als sec­tor is a crit­ic­al and urgent chal­lenge for indus­tri­al­isa­tion and deliv­er­ing the EU’s goal of becom­ing cli­mate neut­ral by 2050.

Palu­di­cul­tures such as peat moss, reed and reed canary grass are already used as con­struc­tion mater­i­als, anim­al feed and foodstuff.

Fast, con­trolled and from resid­ual mater­i­als: Leib­n­iz Insti­tute for Agri­cul­tur­al Engin­eer­ing and Bioeconomy (ATB) is driv­ing for­ward glob­al research into the arti­fi­cial pro­duc­tion of hum­ic substances…

The Scale-up Accel­er­at­or Net­work is a pro­gram that con­nects start-ups with exper­i­enced industry experts who per­form an inde­pend­ent assess­ment and provide tar­geted sup­port in scal­ing up industrial…

Weiz­mann Insti­tute research­ers have cre­ated a bio­de­grad­able com­pos­ite mater­i­al that might help battle the glob­al plastic-waste crisis.

Up to now, wood waste has had to be dis­posed of at great expense and, at best, has been used to gen­er­ate energy in incin­er­a­tion plants. Fraunhofer research­ers are now using this valu­able resource to…

BBEPP has built a 75,000-liter demon­stra­tion fer­menter, which is now ready for operation

Com­putom­ics, a lead­er in AI-driv­en bioin­form­at­ics solu­tions, and Starke Ayres, Africa’s lead­ing inde­pend­ent veget­able seed com­pany, are pleased to announce a col­lab­or­a­tion aimed at advan­cing crop…

Design­ing large new pro­teins with AI

A ground­break­ing sodi­um-sul­fur bat­tery with improved energy per­form­ance and longer lifespan? The secret ingredi­ent grows in our gar­dens: lavender.

The ​“home” of the glob­al elast­omers industry will take place on 19 – 20 Novem­ber in Vienna, Austria.

Pro­duc­tion of fine chem­ic­als such as those used in phar­ma­ceut­ic­als is typ­ic­ally com­plex and labor­i­ous. An inter­dis­cip­lin­ary team of Fraunhofer research­ers worked togeth­er across dif­fer­ent pro­jects to…