The Coca-Cola Company Q1 Profit Declines 6%

GEA opens New Food technology center in the U.S. to boost alternative proteins’ scale-up

"The food industry is at a crossroads"

McVitie's owner pumps £68m into British operations

Landmark investment in manufacturing for much-loved British based brands including McVitie’s, Jacob’s and Carr’s

Sustainable food ideas under the spotlight

Young food talents with visionary product ideas at Anuga

Rival Foods secures €10 million to scale up whole-cut plant-based meat

"Rival Foods has cracked the code on clean-label, plant-based proteins that truly deliver the taste and texture of meat"

Müller confirms £45m investment in Skelmersdale site

RUF takes over Mestemacher

Industrial bakery becomes an independent part of the RUF Group

THE KRAKEN returns: an ultra-realistic vegan octopus alternative causes controversy

While many celebrate the innovation, others find the design "too realistic" or "creepy"

Kraft Heinz sells its Italian baby and specialty food business

Katjes International expects sale of 23% stake in CPK this year

Buyer expected to be a holding company of Ferrara Candy Co., a subsidiary of the Ferrero Group

Ferrero to acquire WK Kellogg

Acquisition supports Ferrero’s portfolio expansion and growth in North America

Valeo Foods Group Acquires Melegatti Cakes Expanding the Italian Bakery Portfolio

Solar Foods partners with Sensapure Flavors

"Solein is a very interesting and exciting ingredient which truly has the potential to revolutionize the food industry"

Positive business results and clear strategy in a challenging market environment

Annual General Meeting confirms course

Ready and running – WACKER Biotechnology Center in Munich

The focus will be on research in manufacturing processes for biopharmaceuticals and ingredients for food and dietary supplements

Food industry publishes annual figures for 2024: employment up

Economy still under pressure

Alcohol only from 18?

Slight majority of Germans are in favor

Nestlé and IBM leverage AI and deep tech to unlock new packaging innovations

Lallemand Acquires AIT Ingredients

Elbfrost Welcomes a New Growth Partner

Successful Launch for NPM Capital in Germany

Oat drinks from the Münsterland region: encouragement for farmers

DBU supports start-up Ährenbrüder from Telgte

Unilever reaches new business arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers

Sweet and climate-friendly: Kaufland's first own-brand products with a cocoa-free chocolate alternative

Compostable Single-Use Tableware

Mechanically stable, water-resistant polymer films thanks to bio-based coatings

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

Screw cap increasingly accepted for wine

A few years ago, this was unthinkable, as a recent study now shows

MrBeast chocolate comes to Germany

Exclusively at EDEKA, Netto Marken-Discount and Marktkauf

Vion: 2024 Strategy Execution Drives Strong Results in 2025

Replacing animal products with plant-based foods leads to weight loss in people with type 1 diabetes

Design2Market: New delivery box for Frittenwerk in just 6 weeks

Vegan diet improves dietary acid load, a key risk factor for diabetes

Plant-based diet reduces inflammation and supports effective weight loss

A new method identifies rancid hazelnuts without removing them from the bag

Ready for summer with the PINK LEMONADE from waterdrop®

Microbes transform plastic waste into paracetamol

How traditional chemistry can work with engineering biology to create sustainable chemical-producing living microbial factories

Frequent nightmares triple risk of early death and accelerate ageing

"Our sleeping brains cannot distinguish dreams from reality"

analytica expands its international network to the USA

US laboratory market with top growth forecasts

How urea forms spontaneously

New reaction discovered: Potential for sustainable and low-energy urea synthesis

Amphibian skin mucus as a potential weapon against multi-resistant bacteria and cancer

Researchers find antimicrobial peptides on axolotl skin that not only fight dangerous hospital germs but also tumour cells as an effective antibiotic alternative

Unmasking hazardous compounds in cosmetics, skincare products and perfumes

New analytical methodology: Significant detection of hazardous compounds and their effects on cells

Chemists produce hexa-nitrogen for the first time - the most energy-rich substance ever formed

"...a huge advance in nitrogen chemistry": future application as environmentally friendly energy storage conceivable

Short naps increase the likelihood of flashes of inspiration

Study on the effect of power naps

How chemical bonds are formed: Observing energy flow in real time

Femtosecond spectroscopy makes chemical processes visible

Breakthrough in lithium refining from lithium chloride

Strengthening the European battery industry: Nobian joins forces with Veolia to advance lithium production for batteries

Virtually indefinitely durable: the world's only heart valve prosthesis made from the body's own tissue implanted for the first time

Technology was transferred to the Berlin start-up GrOwnValve

New Microscopy tool for energy research

Technique allows scientists to explore the properties of photoelectrodes more precisely

Magnetic cooling – using a frustrated desert mineral

Research team identifies atacamite as a magnetocaloric material

Pigments that can do more

New discovery sheds light on the bacterial use of biomass with potential for biofuels and new antibiotics

A map for single-atom catalysts

The precise knowledge of the atomic environments can help produce single-atom catalysts that are more uniform, and thus more effective

Small but Mighty: Miniaturized Hydrogen Production

“We asked the biologically somewhat crazy question of whether we can’t just find a shortcut and let ferredoxin produce hydrogen”

Pharaoh's Curse fungus transformed to fight leukemia

Researchers turn toxic fungus into anti-cancer drug

Pushing the resolution limits of scattering near-field optical microscopy

A valuable tool for characterizing surfaces with atomic-scale precision

From 0 to 100 in 12 minutes: timetable for lithium-sulphur batteries

International study shows potential of fast-charging lithium-sulphur batteries for e-mobility and the energy transition

Ear wax as a possible screening medium for Parkinson’s disease

Berlin-based blood analysis innovator aescolab secures new capital

Start-up uses AI for personalized health analyses

Multi-million investment to drive the de-fossilization of the chemical industry

Verbio flagship project in bio-based chemicals: groundbreaking for catalyst production in Hungary

Research team achieves breakthrough in environmentally friendly control of invasive pests

Solving a 35-year-old puzzle paves the way for sustainable control of insect pests worldwide

Making fibrosis visible – before it’s too late

With planned ETH spin-off to market maturity

Sevenfold boost in lifespan of anode-free all-solid-state batteries using MoS₂ thin films

Employing cost-effective MoS₂ thin films in place of expensive noble metals resolves issues of non-uniform lithium plating and interfacial instability in anode-free all-solid-state batteries

The evolution of cancer cells decoded

"Our vision is a new type of early cancer detection"

Colorectal cancer screening via smartphone?

App-based early detection is as accurate as laboratory tests and could motivate more people to undergo screening

A dragonfly wing-inspired design for high-energy lithium batteries

A mechanically robust in-situ solidified polymer electrolyte for SiOx-based anodes

Commission launches new strategy to make Europe a global leader in life sciences by 2030

WITec Paper Award 2025 winners announced

This year’s prizes reward scientists for their excellent work in material analysis, battery research and medical science