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The company decarbonizing the chemicals industry announced a Series C financing round of over $350 million. GIC and Baillie Gifford led the round with participation from Temasek Holdings, funds, and accounts managed by BlackRock, Carbon…

At one of the world’s biggest shows Expo 2020, The De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) will be sharing their research. Dr. Karthikeyan Kandan has been asked to demonstrate his work in sustainable engineering at Expo 2020, the…

Lanxess gets a wealth of opportunities to use its Durethan-branded polyamides and polyesters from the Pocan product range not only in powertrains of electric vehicles, but also in charging organization. Potential requests include components…

The technology to manufacture the first North American plant-based natural fiber composites– now in millions of cars, trucks, utility equipment, and sports aircraft.  In 2015 he designed and built the world’s most advanced non-woven…

IIoT integrates complex industrial processes through automation and cloud computing to refine and optimize work processes. Modifying existing workflows to integrate men, machines, and the manufacturing process into a structured mesh of…

More than 4 million vehicles are pretreated annually with Henkel’s next-generation metal pretreatment process, which today received the second-place award in the sustainability category of the 2021 Altair Enlighten Awards. The award honors…

The Covid-19 pandemic has further fueled the automation megatrend. While Syntegon has been offering robotic solutions for decades, the newly developed pick-and-place platform, Syntegon RPP, sets new standards in the automation of packaging…

A big push to women into exercise and encourages them to move forward in this competitive world. Dr. Chitrakala Mohan, an electrical engineer working at Freudenberg training Centre in Nagapattinam, India, is a prime example. Betting all the…

Effective immediately, or as existing contracts permit, BASF will increase prices for products in its additives portfolio for plastic applications globally by up to 20 percent. The price adjustment is primarily required due to significant…

Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer 3D printers, announced the opening of its first full-scale additive manufacturing customer center; Netxtfactory in Ventura CA, in partnership with Henkel. Co-located within the Nexa3D global…