On March 11 and 12, 2025, the annual meeting of the lighthouse project H2-Reallabor Burghausen – ChemDelta Bavaria took place again. In this project with 35 partners, solutions for a climate-neutral transformation of the chemical industry are b…

Between November 10th and 13th the 4th project meeting of the DECADES consortium took place in Groningen. This time the host was Prof. Marco Fraaije in the recently inaugurated building Feringa Building of the University of Groningen. Besides the pre…

Between September 30th and October 4th, the Key Technologies in the Bioeconomy conference took place in Sao Paulo and Ubatuba, Brazil. André had the honor to speak about CASCAT’s technology at the conference. In addition to an intensive exchang…

New Active Substance against Hair Loss – Hair loss is a real burden for many people. Up to 50 per cent of all men are affected. So far, there are few effective remedies to combat it. An active ingredient could solve the problem of hereditary baldness…

Exchange of ideas and networking under the banner of the bioeconomy – The first TransBIB Symposium on September 11 and 12, 2024 brought together over 100 participants from various areas of the bioeconomy. CASCAT GmbH was represented by André and Barb…

The 2nd project meeting of eCO2DIS took place on June 21 in Marburg. Prof. Dr. Thomas Erb had invited to the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology. Together with the other project partners from the Technical University of Munich (Chair of…

The INTERfaces project offered CASCAT a variety of cooperation and networking opportunities with many players from academia and industry within Europe. Several videos were created within the project, summarizing the objectives and results. Now the 3r…

The project management organization Jülich (PtJ) hosted the event in Berlin. A kick-off event was held as part of the start of the projects from the funding announcement “Climate-neutral products through biotechnology – CO2 and C1 compoun…

The kick-off event for the CIRCULH2 project took place on February 1st. Representatives from almost all consortium members were there in person to get to know each other better and talk in detail about their own work and possible collaborations in th…

On November 29, the ground-breaking ceremony for the BioCampus MultiPilot (BMP) plant took place in the presence of Minister President Dr. Markus Söder and the Deputy Minister President and Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs, Regional Devel…

Volker and André attended the reception hosted by Queensland Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment Cameron Dick at the Munich Chamber of Industry and Commerce. In numerous discussions with representatives from Australia and Germany from dif…

On 01.04.2023 the EU project DECADES has been started. Now the first video is finished explaining what the goal is within the project.

On 25.04.2023 the cooperation & pitching event “Small WITH Big – together for more sustainability!?” took place in the industrial monument “Kraftzentrale” in Straubing. André was also there and took the chance to tal…

Between April 19 – 21 the final event of INTERfaces took place at the TU Graz organized by Prof. Dr. Robert Kourist. Unbelievable how fast 3 years have passed and what all has happened within this time.

The launch event for the DECADES research project took place at Leibniz Universität Hannover between March 8 – 10. The choice of solvents – as reaction media and for downstream processing – defines the overall sustainability of chemical transfo…

Resource turnaround in the region of renewable resources – biorefinery in focus André participated in the C.A.R.M.E.N. expert talk with focus on biorefinery and presented CASCAT and its contribution to the resource turnaround in a short lecture…

On 27.06.2022 André participated in the VentureCon Bioeconomy at the Botanikum Munich. As one of 17 handpicked startups from the field of bioeconomy, he presented CASCAT GmbH to interested investors. The VentureCon Bioeconomy was organized by the sta…

Karishma starts her 18 month stay at CASCAT. Together with Jakub we had the opportunity to present INTERfaces in the local press. For this purpose we gave an interview to Jessica Seidel from the “Straubinger Rundschau”, which was publishe…

On August 1, Jakub Franciszek Kornecki started his position at CASCAT in the ITN -INTERfaces project. We wish him good luck and look forward to spending time together exploring new approaches and developing processes. ITN-INTERfaces Heterogeneous bio…

At the 5th of March 2020 the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger gave the go-ahead at the Herzogsschloss in Straubing for the development of a Bavarian bioeconomy strategy. This opening congress as organized by Bayern Innovativ&nbsp…

Based on the “Canadian bioeconomy cooperative research and development partnering mission to Germany” we welcomed today several guest from one of the largest countries in Straubing. A delegation, consisting of business representatives and…

At the 4th of March the CSU-business forum took place at the start-up center in Straubing. Speaker of the panel discussion were: Andreas Löffert, managing director Hafen Straubing-Sand Dipl. Biol. André Pick, CASCAT GmbH Markus Pannermayr, mayor of t…

The 4th DECHEMA-PRAXISforum “Enzymes for Industrial Applications” offers industry professionals a platform to discuss the latest developments in enzyme technology and biocatalysis. It is the chance to meet solution providers, key customers and u…

With EUR 3.7M for academia and industry INTERfaces intends to pave the way for enzymatic based sustainable production of chemicals. Under the lead of Prof. Selin Kara from Aarhus University Denmark, 21 European industries and universities are teamed …

Under the theme: Enzymes – Nothing works without them, represented André, CASCAT in a lecture series at the German Biotechnology Days 2019 at the 10th of April in Würzburg. Together with the companies C-Lecta (Marc Struhalla) and Novozyems (Kla…

During a conclave in Straubing, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger visited the port of Straubing-Sand and our laboratories to see for himself the solutions to the challenges of climate change and a changin…

On Thursday, 6/22/2017, the 1st Strategic Meeting of the German Chemie(-wende) Start-up Scene was hold in Berlin as part of the German Start-up Association with friendly support from Covestro and Henkel CASCAT participated to create the future of the…

CASCAT provides a permanently increasing portfolio of basic and fine-chemicals. Our ultra-pure products can be used for chemical synthesis in the chemical, pharmaceutical sector as well as in consumer goods or as analytical standards. The production …

Gunter Festel joins CASCAT as shareholder and non-executive director to bring in his network within the biotechnology industry and financing community. The engagement of Gunter Festel as shareholder and non-executive director strengthens the business…

With a short delay the joint project BIAMIN startet officially at the 1th of April. Within the call “Novel products for the bioeconomy” CASCAT works together with the Technical University of Munich and the Fraunhofergesellschaft on a new …

Themed for the first time, Entrepreneurs of the future – innovative companies – successful strategies – the Handelsblatt Jahrestagung comprised an own start-up session. Together with our buddy start-ups Hydrogenious, DexLeChem, Chromesis, CreativeQua…

High-potential start-ups from the field of bio-based chemistry, polymers and biotechnology are invited to present themselves to industry and investors! The BIO-BASED START-UP DAY will bring start-ups, investors and industry together by giving the flo…

Themed as: Entrepreneurs of the future – innovative companies – successful strategies, CASCAT present itself at the renowned and top-class casted Handelsblatt Jahrestagung Chemie 2016. Within a short pitch we have the possibility to present our semin…

The Bavarian State Secretary for economic affairs Franz Josef Pschierer announced financial support for the expansion of furnished laboratory space in the entrepreneurship center for renewable resources (Biocubator). This enlargement guarantees a fas…

The award of the most innovative member-company was presented during the networking day of the Chemie-Cluster Bayern at the 9th of November 2015. CASCAT was nominated with its “synthetic bio-catalytic process route towards 1,4-butane diol” and theref…

For the first time the combined chemical industry met on a bunch of selected Start-ups dealing with sustainable chemistry and biotechnology. In a side event of the international conference „Sustainable Chemistry 2015: the way forward“ in Berlin selec…