Evonik drives sustainable biosurfactant revolution with inauguration of new facility in Slovakia

First facility worldwide to manufacture industrial-scale rhamnolipid biosurfactants

31-May-2024 - Evonik has officially inaugurated its new sustainable biosurfactant plant together with key customers in Slovakia. The triple-digit million-euro facility is the first worldwide to manufacture industrial-scale quantities of rhamnolipid biosurfactants. These exceptionally high-quality, sustainable ...

Evonik builds world's first industrial-scale production plant for rhamnolipids

Fermentation of sugar replaces petrochemical raw materials

18-Jan-2022 - Evonik is investing a three-digit million-euro sum in the construction of a new production plant for bio-based and fully biodegradable rhamnolipids. The decision to build the plant follows a breakthrough in Evonik's research and development. Rhamnolipids are biosurfactants and serve as active ...

For a climate-friendly industry: Using carbon dioxide and hydrogen as raw materials for sustainable chemicals

Evonik and Siemens Energy put pilot plant into operations

23-Sep-2020 - Evonik and Siemens Energy commissioned a pilot plant sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) that uses carbon dioxide and water to produce chemicals. The necessary energy is supplied by electricity from renewable sources. The pilot plant is located in Marl, in ...

Evonik achieves major biotech breakthrough with a new animal-free and fermentation-based collagen platform

Recombinant collagen mimics attributes of human collagen

19-Mar-2020 - Evonik announced the development of an advanced collagen platform that is made via fermentation-based processes and devoid of animal- or human-derived materials. The recombinant technology will, for the first time, provide pharmaceutical, medical, cell culture and tissue engineering markets with ...

Evonik invests in start-up that makes animal-free leather-like materials

20-Sep-2019 - Evonik’s venture capital arm has invested in a start-up that sustainably produces biofabricated materials that are inspired by leather, eliminating the need for animal skins. Modern Meadow’s technology produces animal-free collagen, a protein naturally found in animal hides, via a fermentation ...

Evonik commercializes biosurfactants

22-Jun-2016 - Evonik is commercializing biosurfactants: the specialty chemicals company is now the first in the world to use biotech methods for producing industrial-scale quantities of high- quality surfactants—key components of modern shampoos, shower gels, and household cleansers. The achievement has been ...

Industrial chromatography and reverse osmosis optimize amino acid fermentation process

06-Feb-2015 - Using creativity and unconventional ideas, researchers and engineers at Evonik have achieved a significant breakthrough in the biotechnological production of amino acids based on fermentation. They integrated the separating methods of chromatography and reverse osmosis and an online analytical ...

Evonik establishes joint venture in Russia to produce feed amino acid L-lysine

Growing demand for biotechnology-manufactured L-lysine in Russia

05-Oct-2011 - Evonik Industries and Russian company RusBiotech International have established the joint venture Russkie Biotechnologii for manufacturing L-lysine in Russia by means of a biotechnological process. Vassily Golubev, governor of the Rostov-on-Don region, and Vadim Varshavsky, a deputy of the State ...