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A research team from RWTH Aachen University has developed a technology to reduce the global use of fungicides and herbicides. For more sustainability…

The company TerraNova Energy in Düsseldorf has developed a method of turning sewage sludge into environmentally friendly energy.

In 2007, the CRISP electron microscope made it possible to analyze materials with atomic resolution. A win for research.

A process that could revolutionize the industrial carbon cycle: Max Planck researcher Markus Antonietti has found a way to compress biomass into coal…

Steel pipes are durable and robust. To keep it that way, Viega has developed a cold-pressing technique. Its advantages: increased safety and shorter…

In the search for new active ingredients to combat fungal diseases in cultivated plants, two researchers from BASF found the solution: they developed…

It was a breakthrough in speech recognition: the Verbmobil could automatically analyze and translate spoken dialog. It was developed in the 1990s by a…

Stiff breezes along the coast are a challenge for wind turbines. Engineer Sönke Siegfriedsen developed a system to protect offshore wind energy…

Humans can learn a lot from nature. Botanist and bionics expert Wilhelm Barthlott took his inspiration from the lotus flower and developed a…

How can the right active agents for drugs be found quickly and in a tightly focused manner? The founders of the company Evotec had an idea in the…

Textiles with “built-in” flame protection can help to prevent a tragedy in the event of a fire. Trevira launched these on the market in 1980.

Solar energy made great strides in the 1970s with the development of fluorescent collectors. These were the brainchild of physicist Adolf Goetzberger.

In the late 1960s, TÜNKERS had made a name for itself in the field of drive cylinders, which is how the contact with Cologne- based carmaker Ford came…

In 1966, Manfred Börner applied for a patent for a data transmission system on which almost all optoelectronic fiber optic cables are based. Without…

In 1965, mechanical engineer Karl Schlecht revolutionized plastering technology with his invention of the automatic plastering machine “Gipsomat”.

They rotate in fields; they rotate in the sea: it’s hard to imagine our landscape without wind turbines today. Engineer Ulrich W. Hütter was the first…

Andreas Stihl launched a motorized chainsaw weighing just twelve kilograms on the market in 1954. The engineer’s inventions revolutionized forestry…

It’s a prime example of usefulness and resource conservation: chipboard. Businessman Max Himmelheber came up with the idea in the 1930s. But it is…

Emil Mauritz Hünnebeck was a master of construction technology. In the 1920s, he developed an ingenious solution for roofs with wide spans and varying…

In its 100-year history, Loesche has marketed mills for the cement, iron and steel, and minerals and ores industries, among others.

An ingenious tool for binding straw led to advances in agriculture from the 1920s onwards – and the financial breakthrough of the family company…

In the late 19th century, physicist Martin Leo Arons paved the way for the light bulb with his mercury-vapor lamp.

It was a revolution in mechanical engineering and vehicle construction: brothers Max and Reinhard Mannesmann invented a process for manufacturing…

Where would elevators, cable cars, or cranes be without wire rope? It was invented in the mid-19th century by Wilhelm August Julius Albert in what was…