Tönnies grows in the UK

Plant-based polymer PEF set to extend shelf life in rigid food packaging

Klöckner Pentaplast secures capacity from future Avantium license plants for thermoformed packaging in Europe

McDonald's and MBRC the ocean Launch Anti-Littering Partnership

Joint cleanup campaigns are intended to document littering patterns and provide recommendations for action at local restaurant locations

Frozen Food as Fresh as If It Came Straight from the Field? EDEKA Launches Awareness Campaign

A five-meter-long ice installation at Potsdamer Platz is intended to demonstrate how flash freezing preserves freshness

Syntegon delivers continued sales growth and margin expansion in first-half 2026 based on strong Pharma business momentum

Food business growth muted by challenging market dynamics

Roland Berger: Demand for poultry to grow by up to 3.4 percent annually through 2040

Chicken is the only major meat category showing significant growth. Domestic production is not keeping pace with consumption.

Irish distributor of process filtration solutions has become part of Atlas Copco Group

The Dublin-based company brings liquid and critical process filtration expertise to the Compressor Technique Business Area

Emmi invests in the Suhr site, thus expanding 100 years of dairy tradition

GEA strengthens competence center for mechanical separation technology: Process Test Center at Oelde site to be expanded

Investment at the Oelde production site creates space for more complex pilot tests and a broader range of applications – completion planned by the end of 2026

Nordzucker starts the 2026/2027 campaign – factories well prepared

Adverse weather conditions are taking their toll on beet yields in many growing regions

Symrise signs agreement to divest its Terpene Ingredients business to Mutares SE & Co. KGaA

Advances the ONE Symrise strategy through continued portfolio management

Lieken Group Launches Initiative for the Future

Group Strategy Through 2030 Finalized; Hundreds of Millions Planned for Modernization Projects

One in every three orders is ice cream: Flink data reveals Germany's hot summer of 2026

The most-ordered summer vegetable is a surprise

Aquaponics Meets Insect Farming

Startup Incubator at NOI Techpark: Where Three Ideas Give Rise to a Cycle

Surging brands and strong protein demand drive Arla Foods to a standout first half

INEOS Inovyn agrees to acquire the UK's only Ethylene dichloride asset from administration

Runcorn supplies chlor-alkali products for water treatment, the pharmaceutical industry, and food manufacturing

Royal A-ware announces acquisition of LaBan Foods

LaBan Foods brings a specialised range of butter products and expertise to the group

Nordzucker intends to cease sugar production in Nakskov

The site is to continue operating as a packaging service centre

Arla Foods Ingredients reduces gas emissions through significant investment in Videbæk

The Future of Organic Retail: Regional Foods Available Around the Clock

DBU Provides 125,000 Euros in Funding to a Startup

Construction Begins on One of Germany's Most Sustainable Ice Cream Factories

Florida Eis is investing 25 million euros in Schönebeck for energy-self-sufficient ice cream production

This cookie started its life as a plastic bottle

Specialized microbes transform inedible material into protein-rich snacks

Why apples react differently to climate change than wheat

Climate-driven water scarcity increases wheat prices globally

Interdisciplinary study connects drought across the world’s wheat-growing regions with global markets

Following a warning from foodwatch: Lidl and Tinema Stop Greenwashing Regarding Salmon

Labels Without Substance – Why ASC and GGN Don't Provide Consumers with a Real Guarantee of Sustainable Salmon Farming

Xylitol may increase the risk of myocardial infarction or stroke

High blood levels of xylitol were associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular events than lower levels

Roland Berger: Demand for poultry to grow by up to 3.4 percent annually through 2040

Chicken is the only major meat category showing significant growth. Domestic production is not keeping pace with consumption.

Cockroach milk, mosquito proboscis as a 3D printing nozzle, and buried underwear as a biological indicator

Bizarre but brilliant: The 2026 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded in Zurich

New Leadership for Danone in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Jean-Yves Krummenacher brings more than 25 years of experience at Danone and most recently served as Global Chief Procurement Officer

Almost a third of the British government's nutrition advisers have connections to the food industry

A BMJ analysis of the SACN register of interests reveals: Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and Danone are among the funders of affected members

Turning CO₂ into fuels: Chemists solve a key scaling problem

LIKAT Technical Center produces catalyst on kilogram scale for the first time for a pilot plant

Why do we get sleepy? How neurons control sleep drive

Understanding how the brain generates sleep drive would provide entirely new opportunities for sleep research

Astorg completes acquisition of Microbiology business from Thermo Fisher Scientific

Former PerkinElmer CEO heads the new company

New plastic turns into a gas when heated – then reforms once cooled

A novel polymer could simplify the application, removal and recycling of materials by eliminating several of the complex processing steps currently used

Mini-tumors reveal new drug combinations for liver cancer

Organoid screening identifies combinations of active substances for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

A Google-like search engine for single-cell RNA works in a matter of seconds

The search engine "Malva" is to be further developed commercially as a start-up

Methanol Qualified as a Feedstock for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Methanol-to-Jet: Drop-in fuel possible without modifying aircraft

The quantum computer microscope

A new invention is set to significantly improve electron microscopy

Organs age at different speeds: a blood test might soon tell which ones

Some people look younger, others older than they actually are. But why is that, and what is actually happening inside the body?

Siemens Energy is starting preparations for business area Transformation of Industry to become a standalone company

Siemens Energy intends to explore new ownership structure of Transformation of Industry as second step with objective to deconsolidate

New method causes cancer cells to burn out

New molecule forces leukemia cells to work themselves to death

NMR reveals hidden electrolyte states for better batteries

Battery electrolytes are not fixed formulations, but evolving liquid states

Tavion raises €50 million and starts development of its first battery parks in Polan

CleanTech start-up bets on Poland as Europe's most attractive battery storage market

Europe Secures Insulin Supply: New Production Facility Planned in Frankfurt-Höchst

The federal government, the state of Hesse, and the city of Frankfurt are jointly supporting the project

Danish 3D cell culture company Celvivo raises USD 6.6 million and appoints new CEO for global scale-up

A life-science tools veteran joins the table

No Electricity Needed for Solid-state Cooling: Heat Becomes Cold

Researchers Have Developed – as a World First – a Heat-driven, Elastocaloric Cooling System That Leverages Waste Heat and Solar Energy for Sustainable Cooling

African Bundibugyo Ebolavirus Vaccine Candidate to Be Advanced to Clinical Trials

CEPI backs Minapharm's Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine candidate, based on ProBioGen's proprietary MVA-CR19 platform

A quantum lab for molecules

Non-destructive quantum logic spectroscopy reveals molecular fingerprints

Stanford researchers develop an improved method for producing sustainable hydrogen

This method increases energy efficiency tenfold compared to conventional external heating methods

Staying One Step Ahead of the Development of Resistance

How Bacteria Develop Resistance to Antisense Antibiotics—and How Future Therapies Can Be Made Less Susceptible to It

Weeks of Work in a Few Hours: AI Tool Reads Cell Membranes

Three Tools in One Software – and Little Data Suffices

AI cooling consumes billions of liters of water—a startup offers a solution

blue activity relies on biodegradable cooling water chemistry

Celonic announces CEO transition: The succession has already been settled

Dr. Samanta Cimitan to depart at end of 2026 to assume a senior leadership role at a global life sciences organization

QIAGEN appoints Jonathan M. Pratt as CEO

Jon Pratt brings more than 25 years of leadership experience, most recently as CEO of Filtration Group and previously at Waters, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and Pall

The European battery circular economy needs new business models

Proposed solutions reduce recycling costs by 34 percent

Sandoz invests in new drug substance facility in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to expand biosimilar manufacturing capacity

Investment of around USD 300 million supports Bio100 goal announced earlier today

Animal-Free Chemical Testing

Fraunhofer ITEM is driving new approaches to risk assessment

An Enzyme That Offers Hope: Novel Plastic-Degrading Enzyme Discovered in Bacteria

"Pac-Man Enzyme" breaks down polyester plastic while simultaneously splitting penicillin

New building block combines proteins with other molecules

Artificial molecular building block links proteins and synthetic molecules to form complex nanostructures

SPRIND provides funding of up to EUR 1.5 million to sThesis

Non-invasive hormone measurement: Munich-based spin-off came out on top against 68 teams