Maire, through its subsidiaries, has secured several contracts within its Sustainable Technology Solutions division. The total amount of all the deals is approximately 50 million euros.

At Interpack 2026, IMA Group presents new developments within its divisions Pharma, Medical Devices, Food, Personal Care, and E-Commerce Packaging. Across the stand, the company highlights modular production systems, aseptic solutions, and digital service concepts.

Syensqo has invested multi-million-dollars for the expansion of its Havre de Grace, Maryland, manufacturing site in the USA. With this project, the company aims to strengthen its aerospace composites production and support growing customer demand.

In-line powder induction revolutionizes media and buffer preparation: Conventional tank mixers slow down production in the biopharmaceutical industry, are prone to lump formation, and often achieve only incomplete particle wetting. A new in-line system solves this bottleneck through a highly efficient, closed-loop Venturi powder induction.

Air Products and Yara are in advanced talks to collaborate on low-emission ammonia projects in the U.S.A and Saudi Arabia with Yara’s world-scale ammonia network.

Green hydrogen is becoming the standard: A study by Deloitte predicts that it will reach a market share of 85 percent by 2050, exceeding 500 million metric tons. At the same time, 9.4 trillion dollars must be invested in the supply chain every year until then. It is no wonder that valve manufacturers want a piece of this pie.

Air Liquide has started-up the world’s first industrial-scale ammonia cracking pilot unit with a 30 tons per day ammonia to hydrogen conversion capacity at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium, thus paving the way for new low-carbon supply chains.

WPU has selected Sulzer to provide its Pyrocon technology and engineering services for its new chemical recycling facility in the Netherlands. With a capacity to process up to 80,000 tonnes of mixed plastic waste per year, the new site is located next to Vitol’s VPR refinery in the Port of Rotterdam.

Matheson Tri-Gas has awarded a significant contract to Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group to develop an air separation unit in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new project is expected to produce oxygen, nitrogen, and argon in order to meet the increasing demand for liquid gases in the medical, fabrication, construction, and food processing industries across Nevada, California, Utah, and Arizona.

On February 28, 2026, the Iran-US war began, shutting down a crucial waterway for global trade—the Strait of Hormuz—and today, even seven plus months later, the Strait is still closed. This ongoing scenario has not only impacted the oil and gas sector but has also disrupted supply chains in the plastics and fertilizer industries as well, leading prices to escalate and numerous industry players announcing force majeure.