Change in HOBART's Management Team

Change in the Zott Group's Management

CEO Frank Uszko is leaving the company at the end of the year

Holger Sydow joins the Berentzen Group

New Managing Director for the brand business in Germany

LEVACO invests in Brazil

Specialty chemicals company further expands Brazil as a strategic growth market for agrochemicals and food chemicals

Improving taste and texture in oat drinks

Greek-Swedish scientist selected as finalist for the European Inventor Award 2026

Carlo Remmele to head SÜDPACK’s Business Unit Food

Quality Association for Organic Mineral Water elects new dual leadership

Dr. Alexander Beck and Dr. Daniel Haussmann take over the Management Board from founder Dr. Franz Ehrnsperger after almost 18 years.

Ritter Sport fills new CFO position

Franky Das was most recently CFO and interim CEO at mymuesli

Change in management and in the European service business at HOBART

Krones appoints Thomas Ricker as new Chairman of the Executive Board

At the same time, the Supervisory Board is restructuring the entire Executive Board and creating five divisions to address the medium-term objectives up to 2028

Rapunzel hands over management to second generation

Company founder Joseph Wilhelm sees the next generation ready to reap the rewards of the pioneering work

New Country Manager for HOBART Iberica

HOBART opts for internal candidate for Iberian expansion

Family business K+G Wetter prepares for generational change

Food machine manufacturer brings Jost Wetter and Marco Beimborn into the management team

Dr. Wilfried Huber retires from the management of Karwendel

A new chapter begins

Rivella Group: Successful financial year 2025 and change of Co-CEO

Focuswater drives Rivella growth

Tom Mayer becomes new CEO of mymuesli - clear focus on digital growth

mymuesli sharpens its strategic focus

Berentzen Group hires stock spirits manager for export and private labels

Danny Gandert takes over the management of Pabst & Richarz Vertriebs GmbH and brings international beverage expertise with him

Dr Uwe Boltersdorf Appointed Chief Operating Officer of BENEO

New COO aims to drive operational excellence at BENEO

Change on Endress+Hauser Supervisory Board

Matthias Altendorf leaves Endress+Hauser after nearly four decades

New management at Ruland Engineering & Consulting GmbH

Founders hand over management

Generation change at AZO

The son takes on the role of CEO and will manage the family business together with his father in future

Nordzucker is revising its beet pricing model and investing €160 million in its factories

Two high-yield beet harvests in succession, high stocks in the EU sugar market and decreasing prices have impacted the earnings position

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

Could cultured chocolate unlock the next food revolution?

Chocolate from a bioreactor: UC Davis and food-tech start-up California Cultured aim to reinvent cocoa

Nestlé to acquire smart food pioneer yfood to accelerate the brand’s international expansion

Nestlé manager Jolanda Schwirtz takes over as head

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Green light for Arla Foods and DMK Group merger ​

The combined milk pool totals 19.4 billion kilograms annually

Researchers find fructose sends a weaker “I’m full” signal to the brain than glucose

Findings shed light on how sugar type influences what and how much we decide to eat

Carbon nanotubes make the electronic nose suitable for everyday use for the first time

The smart fridge of the future: E-nose warns of off chicken and nut allergens

Invisible battle between bacteria determines the flavour and safety of salami

Research could lead to safer products, more consistent quality, and potentially new flavours and textures

Turning food waste into carbon captors

Expected to be cheaper than other capture methods

Atomic reshuffle paves way for record-breaking catalysts for hydrogen production

"This opens a new strategy for designing adaptive catalysts for a wide range of applications"

New drug could slow the development of Alzheimer’s

The active ingredient also shows anti-ageing effects

Detecting heavy metals in soil and water: New method for on-site analysis

Simple technology replaces expensive laboratory procedures

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

New antibiotics discovered to treat multi-resistant germs

A well-known soil bacterium produces a previously unknown antibiotic that was discovered through improved fractionation methods

Holography meets spectroscopy: Ultrafast microscopy method for optical processes

Research team from Heidelberg and Milan develops novel microscopy technique to study energy materials

Focused Energy secures US$240 million: the world’s first laser fusion power plant is set to be built in Germany

Record funding round positions the start-up at the forefront of the international fusion industry

Mini-Brains from Patient Cells Point to Vitamin B3 as Treatment for Rare Childhood Disease

Lab-grown brain organoids revealed cholesterol build-up in astrocytes as the driver of DHDDS-related neurodegeneration.

Researchers solve a 50-year-old mystery: how acid removes water from proteins

Cryo-electron microscopy reveals for the first time which amino acids bind water and which ones release it when acidified

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

Insect larvae as a screening tool

How wax moth larvae can help reduce the need for mammalian testing in infection research

Haga Bioscience raises $2.3m in oversubscribed seed round to bridge spatial biomarker discovery and clinical translation

German plastics recycling on the brink of collapse

Six proposals to save the industry

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Cooking plastics into oil

University of Amsterdam pilot plant brings advanced plastic recycling technology closer to industry

First European biotech with CAR-T and LNP technology under one roof

T-CURX integrates Pantherna Therapeutics, bringing together 16 patent families and 35 employee

Pyrolysis oil instead of crude oil: Faster fluorine analysis reduces the risk for refineries

New method solves a key analytical challenge

Magnetic field during catalyst synthesis triples ammonia yield

A scalable strategy for developing next-generation electrocatalysts for efficient and sustainable chemical production

Fewer animal experiments thanks to virtual mouse

AI-supported in silico mouse model for biomedical research

PFAS detection in minutes rather than weeks: deep-tech start-up Grapheal secures €2.5 million in EU funding

The new EU Drinking Water Directive is driving demand for mobile PFAS analysis

Making Chemistry Greener: The 2026 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award goes to Professor Marc Koper

His findings are crucial to advancing the use of renewable energy and the development of sustainable chemistry

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Bacterial factories: A key to climate-friendly chemistry

ETH spin-off uses genetically modified microorganisms and green methanol as an intermediate step in fossil-free chemical production

The Bacterial Savings Account

Microbes Bank Nutrients in Extracellular Vesicles, then Cash Out

Faster and more energy-efficient: Catalysts boost hydrogen-based steel production

Nickel oxides accelerate hydrogen-based steel production by a factor of two