22.06.2015
- BASF has inaugurated its world-scale production complex for acrylic acid, butyl acrylate and superabsorbent polymers at Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. The €500 million complex, first of...
17.06.2015
- Germany’s Evonik and AkzoNobel of the Netherlands have established a 50:50 joint venture to build and operate a membrane electrolysis facility for potassium hydroxide solution and...
15.06.2015
- DuPont has completed a 20% expansion of production capacity for its glass fiber-reinforced PA 6 and PA 6.6 resins, sold under the trade name Zytel, at its Hamm-Uentrop, Germany...
15.06.2015
- Germany’s Merck KGaA has won the European Commission’s approval for its planned takeover of US life science company Sigma-Aldrich, subject to certain conditions. The EU green light...
12.06.2015
- Solvay has begun production at its two new large-scale “on-pipe” alkoxylation plants in Europe and Asia. Both facilities produce alkoxylates used in Solvay’s Novecare specialty...
11.06.2015
- A draft assessment compiled by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the potential threat to drinking water supplies presented by shale gas exploration has found “no...
IDT Biologika, a major contract manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, is the recipient of the 2015 Facility of the Year Award (FOYA) for facility integration...
During the emerging of aseptic processing the objective was to create isolators to minimize the product risk in a way that the operator was separated from the critical...
The 11th annual ISPE Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program announced its 2015 FOYA Category Award winners: AstraZeneca China (Project Execution), Astellas Pharma...
