Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Smart Tools for a Plastic-Free Future

Cutting Time and Cost of Developing Sustainable Products with AI-Powered Solutions

Mavisol – Innovative AI and Machine Vision Solutions for rPET Industry

Dutch start-up Mavisol has developed an innovative machine vision and AI solution designed specifically for plastic converters, with the aim of promoting environmental sustainability and improving material reuse efficiency.

Innovation at the Intersection of AI

John Banovetz, Chief Technology Officer at 3M, on the role of digital transformation in realizing the company's goals.

Navigating the Future of Chemical Distribution

In 2024, the chemical distribution industry is at a pivotal moment, navigating both challenges and new opportunities. As distributors grapple with a landscape shaped by shifting global trade routes, demand constraints, and digital disruption, their roles are evolving far beyond traditional bulk breaking.

Artificial Intelligence – a Revolution for Innovation?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made groundbreaking progress in recent years, particularly through innovations in machine learning and neural networks. These developments are largely driven by deep learning technologies, which enable the recognition of complex data patterns and the achievement of human-like performance in areas such as speech recognition, image processing, and decision-making.

SABIC Opens Multi-Million-Dollar Resin Manufacturing Facility in Singapore

SABIC recently announced the official launch of its new US$170 (€157.7) million ultem resin manufacturing facility in Singapore, marking the company’s first advanced specialty chemical manufacturing facility in the region producing the high-performance thermoplastic, ultem resin.

AI Specialist COAC to Lead Shell’s Smart Equipment Passport Initiative

In collaboration with Shell, COAC has implemented the Smart Equipment Passport (SEP), a solution to create digital identities of equipment that can be used to exchange information with internal and external users safely and securely.

Egrobots – New Technologies for a more Sustainable Agriculture

Egrobots, a start-up from Egypt, developed a solution for efficient farm monitoring and management using AI and robotics. Their innovation includes an autonomous robot, that roams around the farm, scanning the plants on a leaf-level with high resolution and an AI that analyses this data.

AI-Powered Knowledge Transfer in Manufacturing

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help companies in the process industry capture, retain and access valuable historical expertise and ease the transition for new colleagues in the plant.

Generative AI in Chromatographic Analysis

Generative AI can impact the field of chromatography in various innovative ways. However, great care needs to be taken to validate any use of this emerging technology from a technical, quality and regulatory perspective.

Digital Twin Meets General Cargo Logistics

The logistics industry urgently needs digital transformation to ensure quality and to tackle challenges such as the shortage of skilled workers and sustainability.

Partex and Sanofi Partner for AI-Enhanced Dossier Improvement

Partex Group, an AI-driven drug discovery company, today announces a collaboration with global pharmaceutical company Sanofi, aimed at using Partex’s AI technology to enhance the value of Sanofi's out-licensing portfolio.

Iktos and Bayer Cooperate on Use of AI to Design Crop Protection Products

Iktos, a French company specialized in artificial intelligence (AI) for new drug design, and Bayer’s Crop Science division announced a collaboration to expand the use of AI in the discovery and development of new sustainable crop protection products.

Accelerate Chemical and Material Development

Process manufacturing companies waste almost $100 billion globally every year while formulating novel materials and chemicals due to the trial-and-error approach to R&D and the lack of tools to leverage the experimental data in real-time.

Making Lab Automation Actually Work

Manual experiment monitoring and data capture is still the status quo in most biotech and pharma labs, compromising efficiency and project timescales. But there is a better way.

Accelerating Chemicals Innovation

The Spanish computational chemistry start-up Nextmol (Bytelab Solutions), a spin-off from the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that accelerates research and innovation in sustainable specialty chemicals through “in silico” experiments using molecular modeling and artificial intelligence (AI).

CPHI Annual Report on Pharmaceutical Industry

The 7th edition of the CPHI Annual Survey was unveiled today highlighting trends for 2024. A total of 250 pharmaceutical executives were surveyed with 35 probing questions, with their answers informing the industry landscape for the next year, spanning all major pharma markets.

AstraZeneca Granted Global Starmap AI License for Nanoform

Nanoform, a nanoparticle medical technology company, has awarded AstraZeneca a global online STARMAP license. STARMAP is an AI-based digital rendition of CESS technology, facilitating in-silico experiments for selecting molecules to be nanoformed. This license enables AstraZeneca to screen molecules during the entire drug development process.

AstraZeneca, SAS Team up on AI and Analytics in Clinical Trials

AI and analytics software company SAS is collaborating with global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to increase efficiency and drive automation in the delivery of statistical analyses for clinical and post-approval submissions to regulatory authorities.

Providing Solutions by Making the Most of Biomedical Data

Many life science companies generate large swathes of data.

Creating added value through innovation and transformation

As a global specialty chemicals company, Altana develops innovative technologies, solutions, and products with a clear customer focus. The company aims to strengthen and expand this position in the long term. The topic of digital transformation plays a key role.

Creating added value through innovation and transformation

As a global specialty chemicals company, Altana develops innovative technologies, solutions, and products with a clear customer focus. The company aims to strengthen and expand this position in the long term. The topic of digital transformation plays a key role.

BioNTech to Acquire all of InstaDeep

As it continues to leverage earnings from its top-selling mRNA-based Covid vaccine to deepen its existing knowhow, Mainz, Germany-based BioNtech has announced plans to acquire all of London-based artificial intelligence specialist InstaDeep.

Sanofi Enters Research Pact with Hong Kong’s Insilico

French pharma Sanofi has entered a multi-year, multi-target research collaboration worth up to $1.2 billion with Hong Kong biotech Insilico Medicine.

AI Maturity Model for GxP Application

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the supporting pillars for digitalization in many areas of the business world. The pharmaceutical industry and its GxP-regulated areas also want to use AI in a beneficial way, but only a small fraction of companies follows a systematic approach for the digitalization of their operations and validation. However, the assurance of integrity and quality of outputs via computerized system validation is essential for applications in GxP environments.

Empowering Frontline Workers with AI

Interview with Russ Fadel, Augmentir

AI Makes Drug Discovery Faster

Interview with Joachim Haupt and Florian Kaiser, PharmAI

Sanofi to Tap Owkin’s AI for Oncology Pipeline

French drugmaker Sanofi is taking an equity stake worth $180 million in and entering a new strategic collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) and precision medicine specialist Owkin.

Digital Transformation and Smart Manufacturing

Andreas Helget, Managing Director of Yokogawa Germany, about the importance of digital transformation on the way to autonomous systems.

Accelerated Drug Discovery

In January, Schrödinger, a provider of integrated software solutions, and the life sciences company Bayer announced a 5-year technology alliance to develop a comprehensive de novo design solution to accelerate the discovery of innovative, high-quality drugs.

Will BASF Turn to Pig Farming? Not quite, but …

Why BASF Venture Capital is investing in SmartAHC, a supplier of digitalization solutions for pig farming on the Chinese market.

Creating the AI-Powered Future of Chemistry

Molecule.one leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to design novel chemical syntheses. As a response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Polish start-up based in Warsaw has set out on the mission to accelerate the process of creating medicines.

Virtual Panel Discussion: Demystifying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Analyzing Pores Deep-down

Trends in Asset-Intensive Industries 2019