Building a bioreactor with only a 99 euro budget – that was the focus of the "99-euro Bioreactor Competition" at the Technical University (TU) Dresden. Such reactors are used in research to cultivate microorganisms. A student team from the Department of BioProcess Engineering at the Technical Univer…

Excellent Berlin Science: The Berlin University Alliance is funded as an Excellence Network in the Excellence Strategy competition of the federal and state governments. This was announced by the Science Council on July 19, 2019, in Bonn. The four Berlin partners – Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt…

At the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), practical content is given great importance in the Bachelor's degree program in Biology. A student team also benefits from this. They are currently developing a green algae that is supposed to break down plastic. The work is part of an internation…

- Award: Arburg recognises pioneering dissertations and master's theses of the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Winners 2019: Maria Gabriele Bauer and Dr.-Ing. Hannes Löwe
- Pioneering: Research on bioplastics and on the prevention of hospital germs

Since 2016, Arburg has been honouring outstand…

The requirements for cleanliness or purity of environments have increased significantly, especially in the fields of industrial production and packaging, as well as in laboratories and research. Particulate and germ-free conditions are often a must. Large cleanrooms are frequently set up at great ex…

After an intensive preparation period and the necessary construction measures, the new LPW Test and Service Center will be inaugurated in September at the company location in Riederich. Complementing the well-known technical center, there will then be a cleanroom-based customer center of approximate…

- CVC Capital Partners selected for its growth strategy for Packaging Technology and for its broad industrial expertise
- Packaging Technology and its Pharma and Food units to remain intact
- All 6,100 associates in 15 countries will remain with the business
- Completion subject to approval by antitrus…

Plastic parts invariably have burrs after injection molding or mechanical processing. The quattroClean technology from acp systems AG has proved to be an efficient, inline-capable deburring and cleaning alternative for hard and brittle plastics such as PEEK and PPS. Deburring and cleaning are carrie…

Under the motto "The Future of Sustainable Value Creation Systems" the European Technology Platform ManuFUTURE and the Fraunhofer Society held a workshop on the Biological Transformation of Europe's manufacturing industry in Brussels. About 40 experts from industry, politics, and research…

According to some findings, one searches forever and when they are finally found, everything seems quite simple. Similar to this, the research team led by Dr. Martin Oestreich, Professor of Organic Chemistry – Synthesis and Catalysis at TU Berlin, and his colleagues Dr. Hendrik Klare and Dr. Qian Wu…