BASF has completed the announced divestiture of the production site for styrene-butadiene-based paper dispersions in Pischelsdorf, Austria to Synthomer Austria GmbH, a subsidiary of the British specialty chemicals manufacturer Synthomer plc. Consent by the competent antitrust authorities has been obtained. The agreed purchase price amounts to €30 million; the 42 employees who work at the […]
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Air Liquide starts up the world’s largest oxygen production unit
Air Liquide recently started the world’s largest oxygen production unit for Sasol, an international integrated energy and chemicals company. Air Liquide invested around €200 million for the construction of this Air Separation Unit (ASU) in Secunda, with a total production capacity of 5,000 tonnes of oxygen per day (equivalent to 5,800 tonnes per day at […]
SONGWON signs exclusive distributorship with Connell Bros for India
SONGWON Industrial Co Ltd, the second largest manufacturer of polymer stabilizers in the world has signed an exclusive distributorship agreement in India with Connell Brothers, the largest marketer & distributor of specialty chemicals and ingredients in the Asia-Pacific region. Under the agreement, Connell Brothers will exclusively market and distribute SONGWON’s fuels and lubricant additives (including […]
Vestaron Corporation named in 2018 Global Cleantech 100
Vestaron Corporation, a leading developer of peptide-based bioinsecticides, today announced it was named in the prestigious 2018 Global Cleantech 100, produced by CTG (Cleantech Group), whose research and events services keep its audiences and clients in touch with emerging trends, leading innovation companies and all key players in sustainable innovation. The Global Cleantech 100 represents […]
South Korean SK Biotek opens manufacturing campus in Ireland
SK Biotek, a global life sciences company, became the first Korean pharma-company to invest in Ireland. SK biotek announced the acquisition of the former Bristol-Myers Squibb API (active pharmaceutical ingredients) facility in Dublin in June 2017 and completed the deal by year-end 2017. SK Biotek has confirmed that it plans to operate and develop Swords […]
Almac Group launches elemental impurities lab
Almac Group has announced an investment in a state-of-the-art elemental impurities analysis laboratory at their European Headquarters, Craigavon, UK. The company attributes the investment to the new demands that the pharmaceutical industry is currently facing on elemental impurities from regulators stipulating the control and documentation of elemental impurities in drug products, drug substances, and excipients. […]
Hovione adds new capsule filler at Portugal site
Hovione has announced that a new MG2 Tekna Precision Capsule filler is now online at its Portugal site. This investment strengthens Hovione’s Services inhalation services portfolio, which include proprietary particle-engineering technologies as well as formulation and capsule filling capabilities to support projects from development to commercial-scale production. The new equipment can fill up to 110,000 […]
BASF to double annual MDI production capacity in North America
BASF will start the construction of a new methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) synthesis unit at the company’s Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, in early Q2 2018. Planning and engineering for the new unit started in 2016 and were recently completed. The new plant is an important step to double BASF’s annual MDI capacity in Geismar […]
A startup is about to build 300 vertical farms in China
A Silicon Valley agriculture startup is preparing to build 300 vertical farms across China, propelled by investments from funds created by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt. By entering the Chinese market, the startup, Plenty, hopes to tap into the country’s growing demand for organic foods. Chinese citizens have become […]
Crystal Crop Protection to acquire Solvay’s plant in Nagpur, India
Crystal Crop Protection has agreed to acquire a speciality chemicals plant from Cytec India Specialty Chemicals & Materials an Indian unit of Belgian chemicals firm Solvay. The manufacturing facility spread across about 10 acres of land is located in Butibori, Nagpur, Crystal Crop said in a statement. Cytec Industries Inc. was acquired by Solvay SA […]