01.08.2022 • News
DuPont Opens New Biopharma Tubing Site
DuPont has officially opened its expanded Liveo Healthcare Solutions biopharmaceutical tubing extrusion plant at its Cooper River site in the US state of South Carolina.
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01.08.2022 • News
Dow and Al-Hejailan in Saudi MDEA Venture
Dow and Saudi family business Al-Hejailan Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture to design, build and operate a methyl diethanolamine (MDEA) plant in PlasChem Park in Jubail.
01.08.2022 • News
Air Products Beefs up its Climate Goals
Air Products is strengthening its sustainability goals, pledging to allot at least $4 billion in fresh capital for the transition to clean energy over the next five years. This builds on the more than $11 billion already commited to real zero- and low-carbon hydrogen projects.
29.07.2022 • News
Ineos Snags Three Major Chinese Deals
It has gone somewhat quiet around new European joint ventures in China of late, but Ineos has just announced three back-to-back projects with Chinese state-owned Sinopec that it said are worth altogether $7 billion and will lead to sales of around $10 billion from 7 million tonnes of production.
29.07.2022 • News
EuroAPI to Invest in Biomass Boiler in France
EuroAPI has announced it will spend €24 million to build a state-of-the-art biomass boiler at its Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf (Seine-Maritime, France) site, planned to be installed by 2025.
28.07.2022 • News
WeylChem Upgrades French Glyoxal Plant
WeylChem is investing about €15 million to upgrade glyoxal production at its site in Lamotte, France. A new plant, which will increase capacity by approximately a third, is expected to start operating in early 2024.
28.07.2022 • News
Ammonia Producers may Cut Output to Save Gas
After Russia announced further cuts in its gas supply to Germany starting Jul. 27, ammonia producers were weighing plans to curb output of the commodity, for which natural gas is the key feedstock.
28.07.2022 • News
Trinseo Pauses Styrenics Sale
Trinseo has suspended plans for the sale of its styrenics business because of the current macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty. The company announced last November that it had begun exploring a potential divestment of the business, formally launching a sales process in the first quarter of this year.
27.07.2022 • News
Novasep‐PharmaZell Invests €7.3 Million in APIs
Financed in part by the French government’s France Relance plan, Novasep‐PharmaZell is investing €7.3 million in production of active pharmaceuticals (APIs) at its Mourenx, France, site.
27.07.2022 • News
OQ Chemicals Greenlights MMA Project with Röhm
Germany-based OQ Chemicals, the former Oxea, has made a final investment decision to add capacity for propionic aldehyde and production infrastructure to support a new 250,000 t/y methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant being built by German acrylics specialist Röhm at OQ’s US site in Bay City, Texas.
27.07.2022 • News
Solvay Plans US Electronic-grade Hydrogen Peroxide Plant
Solvay has announced plans to build a new plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, USA, for producing electronic-grade hydrogen peroxide. The investment in its seventh such unit has been prompted by growing demand from the US semiconductor industry.
26.07.2022 • News
Nutrien Buys Brazil’s Casa do Adubo
Canadian fertilizer producer Nutrien has agreed to buy Brazil’s Casa do Adubo, boosting its growth in both Brazil and the Latin American region. Financial terms were not revealed.
26.07.2022 • News
Lummus Launches Net-Zero Ethane Cracker
Lummus Technology has launched what it terms “a major enhancement” to its technology that allows ethane-based steam crackers to achieve zero CO2 emissions.
26.07.2022 • News
Borealis and Total Start Ethane Cracker in Texas
The 1 million t/y ethane cracker built by US-headquartered Bayport Polymers (also known as Baystar), a 50:50 joint venture of Borealis and TotalEnergies, has begun commercial scale production at Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
25.07.2022 • News
Arkema to Buy Mexico’s Polimeros Especiales
French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has announced it will acquire privately owned Mexican company Polimeros Especiales, a producer of high performance waterborne resins for applications in architectural and decorative paints, textiles, pressure sensitive adhesives and construction.
25.07.2022 • News
WHO Declares Monkeypox International Emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the global monkey pox outbreak to be a “public health emergency of international concern.” This is the organization’s second such declaration of the past two years, after Covid-19 in 2020.
25.07.2022 • News
Dow Rolls Out Plastics Recycling Projects in Europe, US
Dow has announced several new steps in its plans to accelerate the deployment of plastics recycling technologies in Europe and the US.
22.07.2022 • News
Air Liquide Invests in Two China Hydrogen Plants
Shanghai Chemical Industry Park Industrial Gases (SCIPIG), a subsidiary of French industrial gases group Air Liquide, will invest more than €200 million in two hydrogen plants and related infrastructure in China’s Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP).
22.07.2022 • News
WuXi Expands API Competence in Asia
WuXi AppTec and its subsidiary Wuxi STA have announced several investments in manufacturing and research in Asia, with the Changzou campus in China’s Jiangsu Province a focal point.
22.07.2022 • News
Röhm Begins China PMMA Build
Germany’s Röhm has begun construction of a capacity expansion in China for its Plexiglas polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) molding compounds. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at the Shanghai site on Jul. 18 and the expanded plant is due to start operating by the second quarter of 2023.
21.07.2022 • News
Johnson Matthey Plans UK Gigafactory for Hydrogen Fuel Cells
UK sustainable technologies group Johnson Matthey plans to invest £80 million in a gigafactory at its site in Royston to scale up the manufacture of hydrogen fuel cell components. The facility is expected to be in operation by the first half of 2024.
21.07.2022 • News
Shell Invests Billions in Sustainability
Shell Chemicals has announced it will earmark “billions of euros” from its current capital spending budget to make production assets more sustainable as it works to achieve net zero emissions by 2032.
21.07.2022 • News
GSK’s Consumer Health Flotation Flags
The Jul.18 launch of GSK’s consumer healthcare spinoff Haleon on the London Stock Exchange – said to be the largest London listing in more than a decade – seems to have gone off more like a whimper than a bang.
20.07.2022 • News
Cytiva Invests in US Resins Expansion
Life science company Cytiva has acquired a chromatography resins factory in Muskegon, Michigan, USA, marking its first investment in new capacity outside its manufacturing base of Sweden.
20.07.2022 • News
Azelis Buys Malaysia’s ChemSol
Azelis is acquiring Chemical Solutions (ChemSol), a distributor of raw materials for the personal care, cosmetics and household market segments in Malaysia.
20.07.2022 • News
BASF Kicks off Final US Expansion Round for MDI
BASF has kicked off the third and final round of its expansion project for polyurethanes precursor MDI at Geismar, Louisiana.
19.07.2022 • News
ABL Inks Immunotherapeutics Pact with KaliVir
US-based ABL, which bills itself as a pure play CDMO specialized in the development and manufacturing of viruses for vaccine candidates, gene and cancer therapies, is partnering with KaliVir Immunotherapeutics on oncolytic viruses.
19.07.2022 • News
EMA Reviewing Pfizer/BioNTech Covid Shot for Youngest
Pfizer and BioNTech have filed an application with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of the Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccine in children aged six months to five years.
19.07.2022 • News
Vertex Buys ViaCyte for $320 Million
US-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $320 million in cash to acquire ViaCyte, a compatriot private cellular therapy company specializing in a treatment for type-1 diabetes (T1D). The transaction is expected to close later this year.
19.07.2022 • News
STAXS Starts Construction of Dedicated Carbon Neutral Facility to Meet Increased Customer Needs
To further increase its capabilities in serving Life Science customers in Europe, STAXS is expanding its facility in Heerenveen, specifically designed for this customer segment and with carbon neutrality in mind.
18.07.2022 • News
Solvias Boosts Testing Services with Cergentis Buy
Solvias, a Swiss CDMO serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, material science and cosmetic industries, has acquired Dutch biotech Cergentis for an undisclosed sum. The deal bolsters Solvias’ platform of biologics and cell and gene therapy (CGT) testing solutions.
18.07.2022 • News
Perstorp “Green” Methanol Project Wins EU Aid
Project Air, a production facility for sustainable methanol in Stenungsund, Sweden, described by the project’s partners Perstorp, Fortum and Uniper as “unique,” has been selected as one of 17 large-scale “green tech” projects that will share more than €1.8 billion in aid from the EU Innovation Fund.
18.07.2022 • News
Grace Expands Michigan Fine Chemicals Site
W. R. Grace is expanding its fine chemicals contract development and manufacturing facility in South Haven, Michigan, USA. The project is scheduled for completion in January 2024.
15.07.2022 • News
CDC Study Finds Glyphosate in most Urine Samples
Glyphosate and the former Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup have returned to the headlines following last month’s publication of a 2013-2014 study by the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that that found traces of the herbicide’s active ingredient in the majority of urine samples collected.
15.07.2022 • News
Japan’s Ube Plans DMC/EMC Production in the US
Japan’s Ube has selected an undisclosed location in the US state of Louisiana as the site for a planned dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) production facility.
