WWF wants plan to combat Germany's 18 million tonnes of food waste

More biotech expertise for lactose-free milk: Kerry opens expanded manufacturing hub in Ireland

The Carrigaline facility combines enzyme strain development from Leipzig with large-scale lactase production

Eat less meat! Otto Gourmet founder in favor of regenerative agriculture

Why animal welfare and carbon footprint are not thought through far enough

Lichtenauer Mineralquellen with significant sales growth in the 2025 financial year

Mineral water and returnable glass ensure strong growth

Fibre from beer production: DKSH and Yeastup launch partnership in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Yeastup uses a patented process to produce functional ingredients for the food industry from brewer’s yeast

Starch Instead of Plastic: Colombian Startup Reinventing Fruit Packaging

Natupla: From ISC3 start-up of the month to a pioneer in starch-based, biodegradable plastics

Vion Reaches Agreement on Sale of Two German Sites

Vion is withdrawing from southern Germany

Regensburg-based start-up solves the bioavailability problem faced by many dietary supplements

EVANIUM secures €2.2 million in seed funding for its bioavailability technology

Shareholders fail to reach agreement: curameo files for insolvency

Insolvency administrator Patrick Meyerle examines restructuring options for the organic ginger shot manufacturer

Dr. Oetker and Coppenrath & Wiese Hold their ground in a challenging economic environment

€4.3 billion in revenue in financial year 2025

New survey shows people are ready for food made from seafood sidestreams

Young, urban consumers are driving the acceptance of new fish-based ingredients

Syntegon posts record year in 2025 and aims for further growth

Revenue increased by 10% to EUR 1.75 billion vs. prior year, reaching a new record

Waterland enters into strategic partnership with Condio and establishes a platform for functional food ingredients

The company develops stabiliser systems for high-protein, reduced-sugar and plant-based foods.

New startup aims to replace fossil fuels in industrial process heating

The technology covers temperatures ranging from 30 to 1,000 °C and is designed for use in sectors such as the food industry, the paper industry, and chemical plants

Food startup Verrano closes first financing round

Verrano brings industry expertise on board and wants to enter the retail sector

Cheese consumption in Switzerland is growing

Fresh and semi-hard cheeses continue to grow in popularity

Katjes reports record revenue and earnings

The Group is targeting consolidated revenue of over EUR 650 million by 2026

KRONEN continues to grow and achieves a turnover of 22 million euros

Partnership with Urschel opens up markets for KRONEN in North America and Asia

Melitta financial year 2025: Uninterrupted growth despite a persistently difficult environment

Paulig to sell Risenta to Midsona, sharpening its focus on World Foods and Tex Mex

Unilever announces the combination of Unilever Foods with McCormick to create a global flavour powerhouse with a superior growth profile

Unilever to become a pureplay HPC business with leading positions in highly attractive categories, fast growing geographies and channels.

Paulaner develops a beer specifically for the Chinese market for the first time

Paulaner drives international growth through a strategic partnership with Tsingtao in China

Good Friday fish in the sustainability check

Danone and Arcor form dairy joint venture in Argentina

The new entity combines Danone Argentina, Mastellone Hermanos and a shared logistics subsidiary under equal 50/50 ownership

More meat, lower risk of dementia: study reveals gene-dependent effect

Among carriers of the APOE4 variant, high meat consumption was associated with a significantly slower rate of cognitive decline

Food scientists develop new antimicrobial for cleaning and sanitizing dry-food processing equipment

New method uses significantly less water and is less flammable

Amazonian cocoa could become a superfood

Brazilian researchers discovered glycine betaine and proline in unroasted beans as natural cell protectors

Ever heard of the barunut?

gebana brings the baruna nut to Europe as a novel food

Conscious, sophisticated enjoyment outlasts the quick rush

BOAR Gin® demonstrates that a decline in alcohol consumption can also offer opportunities for producers of high-quality spirits

German biotech company chooses Saxony-Anhalt for protein production facility

MicroHarvest relies on regional molasses as a raw material and short supply chains in uncertain times

Films and coatings made from chitin-containing residues

Biorefinery for the processing of chitin and production of high-quality chitosan

Italian foodtech Foreverland secures €6M to scale industrial cocoa-free ingredient supply

The company is entering the organic space as the first industrial-scale producer of organic cocoa-free chocolate

Nordzucker’s Finnish subsidiary adjusts its production structure

Suomen Sokeri Oy is discontinuing raw sugar refining at its Porkkala site

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

Start-up AveThera acquires Fraunhofer site for biologics production

The young biotech company takes over pharmaceutical biotechnology unit including employees

DNA steps out of the "blueprint" role to become an active "field agent"

Merck Acquires JSR Chromatography Business

Broadens downstream purification portfolio with next-generation Protein A chromatography for scalable manufacturing

A copper complex kills cancer cells 100 times more effectively than conventional chemotherapy drugs

Copper overload kills cancer cells

Development of a rapid test for diagnosing hard-to-treat VRE Bacteria

Electrochemical Process Enables Recovery of Valuable Raw Materials

How old are we really?

Blood test reveals biological age

Automation and robotics drive growth in the laboratory

Skills shortage and efficiency pressure accelerate automation

Vacuum pump without motor: Thin films - the stuff new pumps are made of

Research team presents vacuum pump prototype with double film drive - spin-off mateligent brings the technology to industry

Helium shortage jeopardizes pharmaceutical production

Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has consequences for drug production and drug supply

Skoltech startup outpaces Nobel Prize-winning AI in virtual drug screening

Ligand Pro has made screening more than 30 times faster: AI model makes large-scale virtual screening viable for mid-sized labs

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

Rentschler Biopharma completes the largest expansion in the company’s history in the US

U.S. site in Milford established as cornerstone of the company’s strategy

Change of management at abberior instruments

Meiko Fiedler takes over as CEO

Innovative coating for hydrogen components

Further development of titanium coating for composite bipolar plates

New treatment approach against sepsis discovered

Genetically modified marmosets as a model for human deafness

A new primate model provides significant opportunities for future gene therapies

A turning point for Europe’s resource sovereignty: tozero launches production of lithium and other critical raw materials

Industrial demo plant represents one of the fastest scale-ups in battery recycling to date

No need to pull all-nighters here: this laboratory plans its own experiments

KIWI Biolab at TU Berlin combines robots, analysis devices and AI - and uses them to carry out even complex experiments fully automatically

Lipid Identification: Chemical Fingerprint Instead of Dye

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

More immune protection, less dominance: A new phase in the corona-development?

For the first time, no new variant is replacing the dominant strains – BA.3.2 mainly infects children

Engineered enzyme breakthrough offers sustainable solution for polyurethane plastic recycling

New process developed to produce universal blood plasma for all blood groups

Revolution in emergency medicine

30 Million Euros for Catalyst Research Using AI-Controlled Laboratories

ASCEND is leveraging automated learning loops and 3D thin-film catalysts to develop industrially viable drop-in substitutes.

Dynamic42 and EPO Close the Gap in Brain Cancer Research

Strategic collaboration integrates organ-on-chip technology into preclinical glioblastoma research to improve translational relevance