Digital edition 2/2026

Happy End

Probiotic feed additives keep poultry intestines healthy and reduce the use of antibiotics - High-tech membranes make green hydrogen more cost-effective - Chemical recycling: Innovative adsorbents for pyrolysis

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Microbiome

Probiotics: Spore solution

Evonik’s latest probiotic feed additive not only keeps poults healthy; its use in poultry farming makes an important contribution to the fight against antibiotic resistance. How Ecobiol® Pro is produced and why it benefits people around the world

Data Mining

Life and Death

Antibiotics help save millions of lives. However, they pose a problem when added to animal feed in particular, as their mass use promotes resistance. An overview of the situation in figures

Pharma

Dangerous Resistances

The discovery of antibiotics revolutionized medicine—and at the same time sowed the seeds of a global crisis. That’s because it is increasingly the case that bacteria can no longer be combated with the available means

The membrane emerges between two rollers.

Hydrogen

A Fine Advantage

Green hydrogen is seen as a great hope for the energy sector in the future. A team from Evonik has put a pilot plant into operation in which new high-performance membranes for water electrolysis are now being produced on a large scale. These hold the key to more cost-efficient production of green hydrogen, which industry needs as a building block for decarbonization, and for energy independence as well

Hydrogen

“We need more planning security”

The market for green hydrogen is developing more slowly than expected in Germany and Europe. Dr.-Ing. Ann-Kathrin Klaas from the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne explains how government regulation and innovative technology can help ensure things pick up speed again

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Circularity

Cracked Plastic

More plastic is to be recycled worldwide. Pyrolysis, which is the liquefaction of plastic waste, creates new possibilities here. Evonik offers additives and technologies that improve the quality of pyrolysis oil in a manner that makes it suitable for the production of polymers

Politics

Pyrolysis and Politics

The role that pyrolysis oils from plastic waste can play in the production of new plastics in the future is not just dependent on purity and technical feasibility. The political environment is also a factor here and can provide incentives to promote chemical recycling—or not. It therefore makes sense to take a look at the EU, the United States, and China, which together account for around three quarters of global steam cracker capacity

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Good to Know

Colorfully Carefree

Evonik offers coating additives with a significantly reduced content of potentially harmful substances.

In my Element

“Tin gives organ pipes their tone"

Every organ pipe is handcrafted. That’s why organ builder Martin Hiltmann shares a particularly close bond with tin, one of the key materials in his craft.

Good to Know

Winds of change

Repairable rotor blades make wind turbines even more sustainable.

Good to Know

The check, please.

Receipts, food cans, and thermal paper can all contain unwanted chemicals. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne are developing a safer alternative.

Good to Know

A Cleaner Bond

Green Bonding Power: Environmentally friendly adhesives are gaining ground worldwide.