Congratulations on your 15th anniversary
Recently there was reason to celebrate within the Cfm team: Oliver Steinkohl’s 15th anniversary. The trained merchant in wholesale and foreign trade has been on board since 2008. As part of our two-person phyto team, he is indispensable. He is particularly known for his accuracy and his desire to make processes better. He has an […]
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Element of the Month September: Copper
Copper has been with us humans for 10,000 years – from the first swords to the power cables in our smartphones. Even Ötzi had a copper axe with him. Copper (lat. Cuprum) is one of the chemical elements with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. The element owes its Latin name to the island […]
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CPhI Barcelona
We look forward to meeting you at CPhI Barcelona from 24 to 26 October. Corinna Schroller, Michael Schäffler and Steffen Tropitzsch will be on site. You are welcome to make an appointment for a personal meeting.
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Schisandra – five flavours, versatile effects
It is small, red and one of the most important medicinal plants of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): the Schisandra berry. The so-called fruit of the five flavors (Chinese: Wu Wei Zi) tastes sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty at the same time. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, each flavor has its own special healing power. The […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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GA2023 Congress Dublin
We look forward to meeting you at the GA2023 Congress, July 2-5 at Trinity College Dublin. Dr. Sandra Miklos will be on site. You are welcome to make an appointment for a personal meeting here.
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ARABLAB LIVE 2023
We look forward to meeting you at ARABLAB from 19 to 21 September 2023 in Dubai. Michael Schaeffler will be on site. Feel free to attend his lecture on rapamycin on September 20 at 1:00 p.m. at the Labworx Theatre. You are welcome to make an appointment for a personal meeting here. Get more information […]
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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 […]
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Element of the Month June: Aluminum
Aluminum (Al) is known as a silver-white, ductile and relatively soft metal. It is involved with 8.1% in the structure of the earth’s crust and is therefore – before iron – the third most common element. The metal always occurs in a bound form. In the mid-18th century, a German chemist discovered alumina as a […]
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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 […]
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