Update
27 Mar 2025

M2i Life Sciences
M2i Life Sciences is a French company specializing in the synthesis and formulation of niche products in the pharmaceutical and agritech sectors. This profile focuses on M2i's expertise in pheromone-based biocontrol products.
Update
14 Mar 2025

BASF Agricultural Solutions
BASF Agricultural Solutions provides agricultural products across five key sectors: fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, seed treatments, and seeds and traits. This profile focuses on the company's agricultural biologicals.
Update
12 Mar 2025

Bayer Crop Science
Bayer Crop Science is the agricultural division of Bayer. It commercializes products across crop protection, seeds, and plant biotechnology. This profile focuses on its agricultural biologicals.
Full profile interview
23 May 2024

Almatis GmbH — TIM Alumina Fillers
Almatis GmbH is a supplier of specialty alumina-based products and solutions. IDTechEx interviewed Andreas Koehler, Application & Market Development Engineer from Almatis.
Background
22 Jan 2024

Ecovative Forager
Ecovative is a biotechnology company which originally started in making sustainable packaging from mycelium. It has since begun making a vegan bio-based leather alternative material from mycelium, called Forager, and remains one of the leading players in this space.
Background
31 Oct 2023

Fork & Good
Fork & Good is a US-based startup developing cultivated meat, in particular cultivated pork.
Update interview
23 Jan 2023

Covestro — 5G Materials
Covestro produce polycarbonate (PC) materials for 5G housing applications. IDTechEx spoke with Segment Manager Lucia Wang on these materials.
8 Oct 2021

Low Cost, Portable Device Could Diagnose Heart Attacks in Minutes
Researchers have developed a sensor that could diagnose a heart attack in less than 30 minutes. Currently, it takes health care professionals hours to diagnose a heart attack. Initial results from an echocardiogram can quickly show indications of heart disease, but to confirm a patient is having a heart attack, a blood sample and analysis is required. Those results can take up to eight hours.
18 May 2021

Ultra- Precision Agriculture Uses Machine Learning, Robots
A gardener hoping for a crop of the juiciest summer tomatoes might tend to each and every plant in a plot. But a farmer working to feed the world? Researchers believe that may be possible. They're applying and integrating layers of technologies - including sensors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, high-throughput phenotyping platforms such as drones and small-scale rolling robots that can also fertilize, weed and cull single plants in a field - with the ultimate goal of replacing farmers' reliance on heavy machinery and broadcast spraying in operations of all sizes.
Update
19 Apr 2021

Covestro: Materials for EV Chargers
A recent webinar (14/04/21) hosted by Covestro detailed their material offerings for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations as well as the trends, properties and standards within this market.
Full profile interview
27 Mar 2021

Büfa
Büfa is a medium-sized company specialising in chemicals, cleaning, and composites. Since 2009, the company has worked on expanding their conductive material offerings with the use nanocarbons. IDTechEx spoke with Jens Wolters (new business manager) about this activity.
20 Nov 2020

Food and AgTech in 2020: An IDTechEx Perspective
2020 has been a challenging year for the food and agriculture industries, however, the crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak has led to several opportunities in the global food and agriculture industry, particularly for alternative and novel food systems.
Full profile interview
20 Oct 2020

Covestro
Covestro is the leading supplier of plastics products, focusing primarily on polycarbonates resin and polyerethanes. IDTechEx spoke with the R&D team for the use of polycarbonates in 5G infrastructure
9 Oct 2020

Could Unlocking the Plant Microbiome Lead to a New Green Revolution?
Plants host complex communities of microbes, which can have a significant impact on crop yields and quality, both positively and negatively. Until recently, it was generally believed that almost all microbes were detrimental or neutral to plant life.
Background
28 Jul 2020

Varigen Biosciences
Varigen Biosciences is a life sciences start-up that uses advanced genomics technology to discover and produce the next generation of natural products. This article discusses how Varigen Biosciences is able to use its technology for discovery of natural products for use in agriculture.
28 Jul 2020

Feeding the World with Genetic Technologies: Technologies and Policies
Dr Michael Dent shares some of the research from the brand new IDTechEx report, "Genetic Technologies in Agriculture 2020-2030".
Background
8 Jul 2020

Abbott Diabetes Care
This is a comprehensive review of the business and technology of Abbott Diabetes Care, assembled from company reports and extensive academic literature review, and supported by additional interview comments over several years. It focuses primarily on the technology behind their market leading FreeStyle™ Libre™ CGM device, which generated over $1.8bn in revenue in 2019.
Full profile interview
2 Jul 2020

Marrone Bio Innovations
Marrone Bio Innovations is a Californian company that produces a range of biologically derived pesticides and fertilizers that can be used as effective alternatives to synthetic agrochemicals, without the damage to the environment. In June 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with founder and CEO of Marrone Bio Innovations, Dr Pam Marrone.
Full profile interview
30 Jun 2020

Ceradis
Ceradis is an agri-tech company that develops and produces environmentally friendly pesticides derived from nature, with the aim of creating safer and greener agriculture that can help feed the planet without costing the Earth. In June 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Willem-Jan Meulemeesters, CEO of Ceradis.
Full profile interview
23 Jun 2020

Crop Enhancement
Crop Enhancement is a Californian company aiming to develop agrochemical formulations that use advanced and environmentally friendly chemistry to increase yield, while reducing the need for synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. In June 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Crop Enhancement CEO Jean Pougnier.