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Digital edition 2/2025

All in one

How Evonik solves complex customer requirements through interdisciplinary collaboration - Medicine: High-tech capsules make therapies more convenient - Climate change mitigation: CO₂ as a raw material for chemical products - Circular Surfboards

Let's go

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Processes

Engineering the perfect mix

For a product to develop its optimum effect at the point of use, many skill sets are required—from material and process selection to shelf life and customer applicability. Process technology plays an important role here

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Pharma

For the sensitive

Until now, many modern therapeutics could only be administered by injection, which is less convenient than taking them orally. Eudracap colon is the first capsule that changes this, releasing sensitive contents specifically in the colon, where they are most effective

Andreas Vorholt and Lisa Steinwachs are standing in a bright laboratory, both wearing lab coats and safety goggles, and talking to each other.

Climate Protection

Fragrances from greenhouse gases

The chemical industry is gradually moving away from fossil raw materials. However, the transition to alternative sources poses huge challenges for the industry. In the Power2ValueChemicals project, Evonik is working with partners to test how carbon dioxide can be used for the production of fragrances

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Circularity

Surfing on Polymer

An entrepreneur and passionate surfer is now making surfboards better and more environmentally compatible at the same time, while an additive from Evonik is playing a decisive role in making surfing greener

The flags of the US, the EU, and China are painted on a wall, the colors flaking off slightly.

Interview

“Things Don’t Look Bad for Europe”

Compared to Chinese competitors, European companies often find it difficult to bring innovations to market quickly. Jörg Wuttke, long-standing head of the European Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, explains how European companies can catch up—and why Europe can benefit from the discord between China and the USA

Evonik Country

South Korea: Asian trendsetter

The Republic of Korea has a long and tumultuous history. Today, it has evolved into a modern industrial nation with a high pace of innovation. In this dynamic environment, innovative products and solutions from Evonik are in high demand.

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Sustainability

Living Wall

The baobab tree creates employment opportunities and acts as a barrier against desertification.

A humanoid robot with a woman's head is standing in a long hallway full of technical equipment.

Foresight

Muscles not motors

Robots with skin surfaces? Game controllers made of cellulose? Biohybrid materials—created from the fusion of biological and non-biological components—could make this possible in the future and herald the age of a completely new class of materials

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In my Element

"We want to build the most accurate clock in the world"

Time is no longer measured solely in human dimensions. Atomic clocks control and regulate time more accurately than humans ever could. The Vienna University of Technology now wants to go one step further and base clocks on the atomic nucleus.