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Latest devel­op­ments in the sus­tain­able tex­tile industry will be intro­duced and dis­cussed at the ​“Cel­lu­lose Fibres Con­fer­ence 2025 – New with Bio­syn­thet­ics” in Cologne, Ger­many and online, on 12−13…

Chem­ists at the Uni­ver­sity of Bayreuth, in col­lab­or­a­tion with research­ers from Ber­lin, have pro­duced a new class of flu­or­in­ated poly­mers that degrade 20 times faster than their non-fluorinated…

Call for expres­sions of interest tar­get­ing SME – Nov­el Food poten­tial applic­ants inter­ested in receiv­ing EFSA’s advice

The upsized and over­sub­scribed Series A fin­an­cing round will be used to drive the lead devel­op­ment pro­gram toward clin­ic­al proof-of-concept and to broaden the thera­peut­ic value of the proprietary…

Research team takes lignin waste from the tim­ber industry to devel­op mater­i­als that can be used to build and recycle sus­tain­able batteries

Fraunhofer research­ers have developed a meth­od of cre­at­ing bio­gen­ic con­struc­tion mater­i­als based on cyanobac­teria. The bac­teria mul­tiply in a nutri­ent solu­tion, driv­en by pho­to­syn­thes­is. When…

Car­bon­ax­ion Bioén­er­gies Inc. (« Car­bon­ax­ion ») is awar­ded the com­bined fin­an­cial sup­port of nearly $350,000 from the pro­vin­cial and fed­er­al gov­ern­ments to study an innov­at­ive clean energy pro­ject in…

A research team from TU Graz and the Czech Academy of Sci­ences has used two enzymes to elim­in­ate the need for highly tox­ic cyan­ide in the pro­duc­tion of nitriles.

The Finnish sus­tain­ab­il­ity fund UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund (UB FIGG) and the spe­cialty chem­ic­als group ALTANA are invest­ing in the tech­no­logy com­pany NORDTREAT.

440 par­ti­cipants dis­cussed the defos­sil­isa­tion of the chem­ic­al and mater­i­als industry through bio­mass, CO2 and recyc­ling. The audi­ence voted for the ​“Renew­able Mater­i­al of the Year 2024”: Acet­ic acid…

Stora Enso has partnered with Altris, a Swedish developer of sodi­um-ion bat­ter­ies. The two com­pan­ies aim to fur­ther advance the devel­op­ment and com­mer­cial­isa­tion of a sus­tain­able bat­tery value chain…

Chem­ic­al meth­od iden­ti­fied to tackle hard-to-recycle pack­aging mater­i­al, cut­ting land­fill waste