World Blood Donor Day aims to raise awareness of the global shortage of blood donations and to strengthen efforts to recruit new donors. A specialist in medical cold chains predicts a significant increase in the demand for the transportation and storage of blood and blood products on this World Bloo…

Schütz has a high degree of vertical integration within its own company. Not only are the packaging materials developed and manufactured internally, but also the production equipment. This provides an ideal basis for the high quality of the products as well as numerous innovations across various seg…

Cherwell, specialists in cleanroom microbiology solutions for the pharmaceutical, healthcare and related industries, is to highlight how its expanding environmental monitoring (EM) product portfolio can fully support the safe production of ATMPs in line with new EU GMP Annex 1 regulations. At the Ce…

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The vast universe of tiny particles

When we talk about dust, there is usually one problem: house dust causes allergies, fine dust pollutes city air, aerosols transport dangerous viruses. But the small particles can do much more: dust soils are very fertile, the Amazon rainforest depends on ferti…

Thomas Kohler (50) took over the management of the Dornbirn-based high-tech company 1zu1 on June 1, 2023. The long-standing sales director succeeds the two founders Hannes Hämmerle and Wolfgang Humml, who are handing over the leadership after 27 years. With this internal solution, the Swedish Protot…

Silicon carbide is a popular industrial material for many applications. The extremely hard, heat-resistant material is used for refractory components and semiconductors, for instance. But its production is energy-intensive and emits a lot of carbon dioxide, as well as producing large amounts of by-p…

On June 9, Hohenstein celebrates World Accreditation Day (WAD2023) along with 30 years as an accredited testing laboratory. In 1993, Hohenstein’s first lab received official certification to test textile products competently, reliably and impartially according to internationally recognized standards…

Improved speed, precision and flexibility – it is important to take advantage of every possible opportunity in optimizing production. To this end, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS have developed SURFinpro, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and o…

For more than 40 years, the German Franz Ziel GmbH has been offering its customers in the pharmaceutical sector tailor-made solutions and, in the course of this, has developed into a leading provider in the field of GMP compliance services. One product area of the company with 230 employees speciali…

Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells promise efficiencies of over 30 percent. Regularly new world record values are announced by research laboratories worldwide. These world records, however, are realized on areas that are about 400 times smaller than the current wafer size of a typical industrial…