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Wacker Expands Capacity for Specialty Silicones in China

Wacker Chemie started the construction of several new production lines to expand its specialty silicone manufacturing capacities at the Zhangjiagang site in Jiangsu Province, China. At the site, which is one of Wacker’s largest fully integrated production sites, the globally operating chemical group will produce functional silicone fluids, silicone emulsions and silicone elastomer gels. Investments of some €150 million are planned for the expansion project, Wacker said.

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Galp Approves Two Major Investments at Sines Site

Portugal's oil company Galp has taken the final investment decision on two large scale projects to reduce the carbon footprint of the Sines refinery and of its products.

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Astellas to Build an Aseptic Drug Products Plant in Ireland

Japanese drugmaker Astellas Pharma plans to build an aseptic drug products facility in County Kerry, Ireland, creating an estimated 350 engineering, science, technology and other jobs. Construction is expected to begin next year and be completed in 2028. Astellas expects the investment costs to amount to €330 million.

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Dow Starts Operations at New Freeport MDI Plant

Dow has started operations of its new MDI distillation and prepolymers facility at its US manufacturing site in Freeport, Texas.

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ExxonMobil Completes Expansion of US Chemical Production at Baytown

US multinational energy company ExxonMobil has started up two new chemical production units at its Baytown, Texas, manufacturing facility. The $2 billion expansion is part of the company’s long-term growth plans for its US Gulf Coast refining and chemical facilities.

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MSD Ireland Opens New Site in Dunboyne, Completes Expansion in Carlow

In Ireland, US drugmaker MSD has opened its new facility in Dunboyne, County Meath, and has expanded its Carlow site. MSD says it has invested more than €1 billion at both sites, creating 670 new jobs and increasing the number of employees in Ireland to 3,100. 100 of the newly created positions remain to be filled.

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PPG Completes Expansion of Powder Coatings Plant in Brazil

PPG has completed an expansion of its powder coatings plant in Sumaré, Brazil. The $2.7 million project increased the production capacity of the facility by 40%. The unit is expected to reach full capacity this month.

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Sanner Group Opens Second Manufacturing Facility in China

Sanner, a German contract manufacturing and development organization (CDMO), is expanding its production capacity in the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of a second manufacturing facility in Kunshan, China.

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Solvay Expands China Research and Innovation Center in Shanghai

With the inauguration of a new research building in the Shanghai Technology Park, Solvay has completed the expansion of its China Research & Innovation Center (R&I). The company said that it has invested more than 4 billion RMB (approximately €500 million) in its Chinese R&I hub since 2005.

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CordenPharma Completes Upgrade of US Peptide Production Site in Colorado

CDMO CordenPharma, a specialist in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), excipients, drug products and packaging services, inaugurated an increased commercial peptide production capacity with newly-upgraded facilities at its Colorado site in the US, which the company says is the world's largest solid-phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) manufacturing facility.

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Lenzing Completes the Conversion and Upgrade of Its Indonesian Site

Austrian fibers producer Lenzing has completed technical improvements to its Purwakarta site in Indonesia. According to Lenzing, it has invested more than €100 million since 2021 to convert the location into a supplier of specialty viscose fibers.

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Bayer to Build New R&D Facility at German Site in Monheim

Bayer’ Crop Science division plans to invest €220 million in a new research and development (R&D) facility at its Monheim, Germany site. This is the company’s largest single investment in its crop protection business in Germany since the founding of the Monheim campus in 1979, Bayer said.

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Covestro Completes Construction of New Polyurethane Dispersions Site in Shanghai

Covestro has completed construction on a new production facility for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) in Shanghai, China.

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Grupa Azoty Plans New Ammonium Nitrate Plant at Polish Fertilizer Site

Polish chemical company Grupa Azoty wants to build a new concentrated ammonium nitrate solution plant at its site in Tarnów, Poland. The company announced that it has signed a contract with Thyssenkrupp Uhde for the preparation of licensing documentation and the supply of all process equipment for the plant.

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Finnish CDMO Biovian Expands its Facility in Turku

Finnish contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) Biovian, specializing in biopharmaceuticals, is investing more than €50 million to expand its manufacturing facility in Turku, Finland.

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Braskem Expands its Brazilian Biopolymer Production Plant

Braskem has completed the expansion of production capacity for its biobased ethylene plant in the petrochemical complex of Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Upperton Completes Construction of New Development and Manufacturing Site

Upperton Pharma Solutions, a UK contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has completed construction of its new development and GMP manufacturing headquarters in Nottingham, UK. The company said it has invested £15 million in the new 50,000-square-foot facility.

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Moderna to Build New Plant in Massachusetts

After building up manufacturing footholds outside the US, including in Australia, Kenya, South Korea, Canada and the UK, vaccine specialist Moderna is planning to build a new plant closer to its home base in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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WuXi STA Expands Capabilities at Changzhou Campus

WuXi STA has added two reactors at its Changzhou campus in China, enhancing capacity and capability at its TIDES contract research, development and manufacturing platform for oligonucleotide, peptide and related synthetic conjugates. The reactors have capacity of 2,000 liters each, taking total volume for solid-phase peptide synthesizers to more than 10,000 liters.

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Germany’s Merck to Invest in its US Chips Business

Germany’s Merck plans to invest some €300 million in an integrated specialty gas plant in Hometown, Pennsylvania, to support the development of its semiconductor business.

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Genentech Builds Biologics Facility in California

Genentech, the US biotech arm of Swiss pharma giant Roche, is building a new small-batch biologics manufacturing facility at its Oceanside campus in California, USA. Groundbreaking took place on Feb. 10.

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Arkema Doubles Polyester Resin Output in India

Arkema has doubled capacity for its Reafree-branded powder polyester resins at its Navi Mumbai facility in India. The French chemical producer said the upgrade reinforces its leadership position in the global powder coatings market and its commitment to developing very low-VOC technologies.

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Brenntag Expands South American Facilities

Brenntag has opened a new facility in Zarate, Argentina, unifying its operations in Buenos Aires into a single site and expanding its capabilities to customers. The site comprises offices, warehouses, storage tanks, three tank truck unloading spaces, two drumming stations and a mixing and blending building.

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BioNTech to Set up Oncology Base in Taiwan

Germany’s BioNTech said it plans to accelerate and broaden the clinical development of its cancer immunotherapy pipeline in the Asia-Pacific region by expanding its clinical footprint to East Asia, specifically Taiwan.

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Clariant Expands Care Chemicals in China

Specialty chemicals producer Clariant said it will invest 80 million Swiss francs to increase output of existing products in the portfolio it manufactures at Daya Bay, Huizhou, China, as well as introducing new products there by the end of 2024.

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Pfizer to Invest $750 million in Michigan

Pfizer is planning to invest $750 million in its Kalamazoo County, Michigan, production site – one of its biggest – to increase output of injectables and vaccines, including the investigational mRNA flu shot currently in Phase 3 clinical trials.

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WuXi STA Opens new Parenteral Formulation Line

WuXi STA has started up a new parenteral formulation line at its drug product site in Wuxi City, China. The company’s second line for parenteral drug product clinical and commercial manufacturing to go on stream this year has an annual capacity of 10 million units.

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Fujifilm Triples Manufacturing Capacity for Cell Culture Media

Responding to rising market demand, Japan’s Fujifilm is spending $188 million to establish a manufacturing facility for cell culture media in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. The site – Fujifilm’s fifth worldwide – will be operated by subsidiary Fujifilm Irvine Scientific.

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PPG Expands in Mexico and USA

PPG has announced separate projects in Mexico and the US to expand capacity for powder coatings and adhesives and sealants respectively.

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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.

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Yara Details Clean Ammonia Plans

Yara International has outlined an ambitious growth plan for its Clean Ammonia business, with “significant” investment decisions targeted over the next three years.

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CordenPharma Lifts Lipids Capacity in France

Full-service CDMO CordenPharma is making a major investment to increase lipid manufacturing capacity at its CordenPharma Chenôve facility near Dijon, France. The project is one of 25 based on mRNA technology that the French government is backing with altogether €585 million.

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BASF Announces Investments in HMD and PA 6.6

As demand for polyamide (nylon) continues to skyrocket and the market tightens, BASF has become the second major producer to announce a fresh investment in one of the polymer’s starting materials, hexamethylenediamine (HMD).

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PPG Expands Coatings Capacity in Germany

US paints and coatings group PPG has announced plans to invest more than $10 million to expand production of OEM coatings at its site in Weingarten, Germany. An addition to its existing facility will be able to produce more than 5,000 t/y of waterborne basecoats when it goes on stream in the second quarter of 2022.

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GTP Bioways Investing €12 Million at Toulouse

French CDMO GTP Bioways, a specialist in biotherapies and nanotherapies, is investing €12 million in two new biopharmaceutical production lines at its site in Toulouse. The first line will be dedicated to production using microbial systems (bacteria and yeast), while the second is designed for the culture of mammalian cells at a scale of 10 l.

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