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Reducing the environmental impact of the chemical and coffee industry: OHAUS as partner
09-Apr-2025
In the heart of Poland, EcoBean is paving the way for a sustainable future by reducing the environmental impact within the coffee and chemical industry. Coffee grounds are a very valuable raw material, which is currently mostly diverted to landfills. Only 30% of the potential from coffee beans is ...
Aerleum raises $6M in seed round
16-Oct-2024
Aerleum, a pioneering climate tech company specializing in CO₂ capture and utilization, announces the successful close of its $6M seed round, led by 360 Capital and HTGF, with participation from Norrsken, Bpifrance, and Marble. The funding will accelerate the industrialization of Aerleum’s ...
16-Jul-2024
GIDARA Energy, a pioneer in technology that converts waste into syngas (synthesis gas), announces its collaboration with Black & Veatch to convert biomass and non-recyclable waste into renewable syngas, a key component of sustainable fuels and chemicals repurposed for other products. Looking to ...
CO₂ recycling as a useful complement to carbon capture and storage
11-Sep-2023
There is international consensus among climate scientists that further global warming can only be stopped if, in addition to actively reducing CO2 emissions, huge quantities of greenhouse gases can be removed from the atmosphere. This is where the Leipzig-based start-up enaDyne provides an ...
IQ Innovation Award for revolutionary raw material extraction from CO₂
27-Jun-2023
The Chemistry/Plastics Cluster Award of the 19th IQ Innovation Award Central Germany goes to enaDyne GmbH from Freiberg. The Saxon startup has developed a plasma catalysis reactor that can be used to produce green chemicals and e-fuels fromCO2. Some of the most widely used chemicals can thus be ...
The new capital will be used to set up the test laboratories in Düsseldorf, aim for GLP accreditation and launch the test battery on the market
20-Jun-2023
The Life Science startup DNTOX receives seed funding of €1.4 million. The round is led by HTGF, with private investors Barbara Korte-Sturm and Nikolaus Sturm as well as Bool Capital and AQAL Capital also participating. The Düsseldorf-based company has developed a test system based on human cells ...
Groundbreaking discovery will enable the manufacturing of biorenewable materials from trees and corn: A Startup wants to make it possible
11-Jan-2023
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has invented a groundbreaking new catalyst technology that converts renewable materials like trees and corn to the key chemicals, acrylic acid, and acrylates used in paints, coatings, and superabsorbent polymers. The new catalyst ...
Industrial power-to-liquid plant in Frankfurt to receive funding from environmental innovation program
05-Dec-2022
The Karlsruhe-based Cleantech company INERATEC is building the world’s first large-scale industrial production plant for synthetic fuel in Germany. This will make INERATEC the market leader for the production of e-fuels. Their use will make both shipping and aviation climate neutral. Funding from ...
Provide consistent chemical carbon footprint data in alignment with BASF standard methodology
07-Sep-2022
Carbon Minds, the provider of the largest and most regionalized LCA database for chemicals and plastics, has partnered with BASF to provide comprehensive and consistent product carbon footprint (PCF) data for chemicals and plastics in alignment with the BASF PCF methodology. The partnership is ...
Electrochemical transformation of CO₂, a natural polymer for paper and cardboard coating and material-to-material molecular recycling of plastic waste are the winners of the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year 2022”
20-May-2022
The "Renewable Materials Conference 2022", 10-12 May in Cologne (Germany), attracted over 400 participants who came to see the latest developments in bio- and CO₂-based chemicals, plastics and other materials as well as advanced recycling technologies in search of non-fossil solutions. 60 ...
