It’s an untapped resource: the waste heat from industrial production that has largely been escaping unused into the environment. At the same time, demand is growing for climate-friendly heat in cities and regions. Tightly linking industry, energy suppliers, and municipalities is a key lever for aligning climate protection, economic efficiency, and security of supply. A project at Evonik’s site in Herne shows how it can work.
Energy Transition
Chemical plant heats 1,000 households
It’s an untapped resource: the waste heat from industrial production that has largely been escaping unused into the environment. At the same time, demand is growing for climate-friendly heat in cities and regions. Tightly linking industry, energy suppliers, and municipalities is a key lever for aligning climate protection, economic efficiency, and security of supply. A project at Evonik’s site in Herne shows how it can work.
Energy Transition
Recycling powered by solar and wind energy
Alkoxides are already central to the production of biodiesel today. In the future, these catalysts are also expected to play a key role in chemical recycling. Evonik has recently started producing them climate-neutrally in a globally unique facility in Singapore. For this achievement, the company received the EuroCham Sustainability Award 2025 for innovations in decarbonization.
Energy Transition
Recycling powered by solar and wind energy
Alkoxides are already central to the production of biodiesel today. In the future, these catalysts are also expected to play a key role in chemical recycling. Evonik has recently started producing them climate-neutrally in a globally unique facility in Singapore. For this achievement, the company received the EuroCham Sustainability Award 2025 for innovations in decarbonization.
Circularity
Bonded – Until You Say So
Adhesives are designed to hold – but ideally, they should also be removable when needed, as this is the only way to reuse the bonded parts. Evonik has a solution for this.
Circularity
Bonded – Until You Say So
Adhesives are designed to hold – but ideally, they should also be removable when needed, as this is the only way to reuse the bonded parts. Evonik has a solution for this.
In my Element
“This Blue Is Divine!”
A blue with a history spanning more than a thousand years, made unique by brominated compounds: For the Ptil Tekhelet Association in Jerusalem, it is indispensable for producing the Jewish prayer shawl in the traditional way—the only organization in the world that does so. Physicist and electrical engineer Baruch Sterman explains the background.
In my Element
“This Blue Is Divine!”
A blue with a history spanning more than a thousand years, made unique by brominated compounds: For the Ptil Tekhelet Association in Jerusalem, it is indispensable for producing the Jewish prayer shawl in the traditional way—the only organization in the world that does so. Physicist and electrical engineer Baruch Sterman explains the background.
Electrolysis
Inside, everything is different
The chemical industry is energy- and resource-intensive. Electrifying its processes can significantly contribute to making it more climate-friendly. In the research and innovation project “ETOS”, Evonik is working together with partners from industry and academia to operate chemical reactions with electricity instead of fossil energy sources in the future.
Electrolysis
Inside, everything is different
The chemical industry is energy- and resource-intensive. Electrifying its processes can significantly contribute to making it more climate-friendly. In the research and innovation project “ETOS”, Evonik is working together with partners from industry and academia to operate chemical reactions with electricity instead of fossil energy sources in the future.
Interview
“It works—and it pays off”
Today, most chemical processes function with the help of a chemical catalyst. In the future, progress in the field of electrochemistry could increasingly make electricity alone sufficient to power a chemical reaction, says Professor Siegfried R. Waldvogel from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Interview
“It works—and it pays off”
Today, most chemical processes function with the help of a chemical catalyst. In the future, progress in the field of electrochemistry could increasingly make electricity alone sufficient to power a chemical reaction, says Professor Siegfried R. Waldvogel from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
