BASF has released preliminary figures for the second quarter of 2026. Sales increased by 16% in the second quarter of 2026 to €17.2 billion (Q2 2025: €14.8 billion). The increase compared with the prior-year quarter resulted primarily from higher prices (+11%) and higher volumes (+7%); currency effe...

INERATEC and Zeopore announce a successful technology collaboration driving a more efficient and economically competitive production of CO₂- neutral e-Fuels and e-Chemicals. At the center of the collaboration is INERATEC’s newly developed hydrocracking process, designed to upgrade Fischer-Tropsch wa...

Magritek, the global leader in benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) instrumentation, announced that NexMR, developer of advanced photohyperpolarization technology, is joining the Magritek group. The move brings NexMR's science into the platform best positioned to develop it and bring it to cust...

ICIS announced Greg Poux-Guillaume, CEO of AkzoNobel, as the winner of the 2026 ICIS CEO of the Year Award for outstanding achievement. "I'm honored to receive this award on behalf of the entire AkzoNobel team and thank my peers for their recognition. This distinction is a testament to the dedicatio...

Hosokawa Alpine AG, headquartered in Augsburg/Germany, is continuing its ongoing transformation process. In response to changing market requirements and the company’s strategic development, the German Hosokawa Solids Solutions GmbH will be integrated into the parent company effective October 1, 2026...

Materials manufacturer Covestro and BYD announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a long-term strategic partnership. The agreement focuses on developing and applying advanced material solutions across BYD's growing portfolio of industries, including automotive, energy...

A team led by chemist Professor Frank Glorius from the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Münster has developed a new light-driven reaction sequence. In this triple catalysis, one reaction step triggers the next like three dominoes in a row toppling one after the other. The molecula...

A research team from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at Kiel University, Germany is developing porous materials specifically designed to harvest water from the air and enable energy-efficient cooling. The team has now succeeded in producing these materials on a larger scale for the first time, ...

In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, chemists at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg have achieved a major research breakthrough: The team led by Prof. Dr. Dieter Schinzer of the Institute of Chemistry has succeeded for the first time in synthesizing key building blocks of the natural co...

GETEC, a leading European provider of decarbonized energy and infrastructure solutions, has signed an agreement to acquire Cogenio. Cogenio is a company in the decentralized energy sector that supports commercial and industrial customers in Southern Europe in implementing their decarbonization strat...

Arboris GmbH & Co. KG, the Tschira family’s family office, is taking a stake in Green Hydrogen Technology GmbH (GHT) as a long-term investor. The goal of the partnership is to advance the industrial scaling of GHT’s technology, which converts non-recyclable waste at the local level into climate-neut...

Worldwide, discarded electronic toys, computers, or smartphones are becoming increasingly massive amounts of electronic waste. The basis for electronic circuits are printed circuit boards (PCB), which are typically made of glass fiber-reinforced fossil epoxy resin, making them difficult to recycle, ...

Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual atoms in the process. They used X-ray flashes from the European XFEL to show that different atoms of the same molecule can reveal entirely different aspects of the process. Th...

A structuring commercial, industrial and financial agreement that strengthens Lhyfe's revenue visibility and consolidates its position among the key players in the renewable hydrogen sector Lhyfe – one of the world's pioneers in the production of green and renewable hydrogen for the decarbonization ...

The Department of Process and Plant Safety at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) and the Division of Dynamics and Operation of Technical Systems at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) opened the Berlin Joint Institute for Plant Safety and Process Engineering on...

Four industry associations (KLiB, VCI, VDMA, and ZVEI) are calling for systematic improvements to the framework conditions and a level playing field to ensure the development of the battery industry in Germany and Europe. On the occasion of the topping-out ceremony for the Fraunhofer Research and Pr...

Shimadzu Corporation completed the acquisition on July 10 of all shares of Glass HoldCo s.r.o., which indirectly holds all shares of TESCAN GROUP, a.s., a Europe-based pioneer in electron microscopy, thereby making TESCAN a wholly owned subsidiary. This transaction completes the share acquisition pr...

The radioactive heavy metal uranium is usually found in the soil in a mineral-bound form but can be converted into soluble forms by environmental influences or mining activities. If it enters the environment, this poses a problem due to its toxic properties. Now, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum...

While many industrial companies are scaling back their investments in light of a weak economy, high energy costs, and geopolitical uncertainties, the Westfalen Group is significantly increasing its investments. In fiscal year 2025, they rose by about 30 percent to more than 90 million euros. However...

3E, the leading global provider of expert-led AI compliance solutions for chemical and workplace safety, product stewardship, and sustainable supply chains, announced its acquisition of Yordas Group, a leading international provider of scientific consulting and regulatory content services across che...