Element of the Month August: Sodium
Our element of the month for August is sodium. Everyone knows it and comes into contact with it every day. Without sodium, there would be no life. Conduction between the nerve cells would not work. Under normal conditions, sodium is a waxy, silvery, highly reactive metal. Sodium was discovered in 1807 by Humphry Davy after […]
Read more
Element of the Month July: Cobalt
Did you know that cobalt was the first metal to be discovered? Cobalt (from Latin cobaltum – “kobold”) is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. The element was discovered and first depicted in 1735 by the Swedish chemist Georg Brandt. As early as the 15th century, miners in the Erzgebirge […]
Read more
Metal soaps – versatile use in a wide range of industries
Metal soaps are salts of fatty acids. Most commonly used is stearic acid in combination with different metals such as calcium, zinc, magnesium or lead – but with the exclusion of sodium and potassium salts. The fatty acid salts of the sodium and potassium salts are water-soluble and are called soaps. Metal soaps are poorly […]
Read more
mTOR inhibitor rapamycin (sirolimus) as a treatment option for tuberous sclerosis
Tuberous sclerosis is a very complex, incurable genetic disease. Within Germany, around 8,000 people are affected, and one to two million people worldwide. Tuberous sclerosis affects almost all organs. It leads, for example, to benign tumors or malformations in the brain. In addition, renal angiomyolipomas often form. These are also benign tumors of the kidney […]
Read more
Sugars: from food industry to drug manufacturing
When it comes to sugar, people first think of its function as an energy supplier and sweetener in food or, in a negative context, of the common disease diabetes mellitus. But sugar is more than an energy supplier and nobody can live without it. Most probably only a minority is thinking of a group of […]
Read more
Element of the month April: Barium
The alkaline earth metal barium was first identified in 1774 by the pharmacist and chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who contributed to the discovery of several elements, especially oxygen. In its elemental state, barium appears silvery-white and shiny metallic. Because of its high reactivity, barium does not occur elementally in nature. It is the 14th most […]
Read more
In search of endogenous proteins
Johannes Broichhagenwww.broichhagenlab.com In his lectures, summarized in his book “What is Life?”, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger described in the 1940s that “the course of life processes in an organism […] [shows] an admirable regularity and order that in inanimate matter does not find its equal”.[1] Almost 80 years later, we are still searching for the […]
Read more
Stephanie Knorr
The trained clerk in wholesale and foreign trade has been part of Cfm since 2016. As a junior account manager, she complements the team for metals and metal compounds. What is your everyday life like at Cfm? That varies and depends entirely on which orders are currently being processed. I usually request missing documents, write […]
Read more
Celine Pohlers
Unfortunately, we often have to do without our youngster in the CFM team due to the block lessons. But when she is there, she is a real asset and is already taking on responsible tasks in order processing: Celine Pohlers. Two years ago she began her training as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk specializing […]
Read more
Corinna Schroller
As a key account manager, she has been part of the Cfm team since 2017 and is at home in the field of metals and metal compounds: Corinna Schroller. After studying tourism management with a focus on customer / quality management and marketing, she moved back home from the Allgäu and went straight to Cfm […]
Read more
Sebastian Burger celebrates 15 years of Cfm
Bei Cfm gibt es Grund zu feiern: Account-Manager Sebastian Burger blickt auf 15 Jahre Cfm zurück. Wer ihn persönlich kennt, der dürfte wissen, dass das nicht selbstverständlich ist. Denn Chemie zählte während der Schulzeit nicht unbedingt zu seinen Lieblingsfächern. Nach dem Abitur war für ihn klar, dass er eine Ausbildung machen möchte. Als Ortsansässiger und […]
Read more
We say goodbye to Oskar Tropitzsch
We say goodbye to Oskar Tropitzsch, who died on August 16, 2021 at the age of 75. Oskar Tropitzsch led the company in the third generation. In more than 230 years of company history, it was he who had the courage to start over. He converted the existing production company into a trading company and […]
Read more
4c media