BASF and SK On have entered into an agreement to jointly evaluate collaboration opportunities in the global lithium-ion battery market. With a focus on the North America and Asia-Pacific markets, the companies will initially look at the production of cathode active materials.

Neste, Mitsui Chemicals and Prime Polymer have plans to make use of renewable materials for developing more sustainable food packaging solutions for Co-op, a brand of the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union.

The move to expand its biopharmaceutical CDMO capability in Yokohama, Japan by AGC is in line with the company’s medium-term plan of positioning its biopharmaceutical CDMO business as one of its strategic businesses.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new center in Seoul, South Korea will act as a global hub for battery producers through which they can gain access to metrology and quality control technologies.

Messer has selected Sulzer’s mass transfer technologies to assist an innovative carbon capture and utilization process at its Landeck plant in Austria. The unit will make use of Sulzer Chemtech’s carbon capture technology to capture more than 50,000 tons of CO2 per year.

GEA’s carbon capture portfolio has the capacity to decarbonize carbon-intensive industries such as cement both swiftly and cost-effectively. A number of trials have been conducted at a pilot plant at Phoenix Zementwerke in Beckum, Germany and it has demonstrated that CO2 emissions in cement production can be reduced by 90 %.

Italvacuum has more than 80 years of experience in the design and production of vacuum pumps and vacuum dryers for pharmaceutical and fine chemicals companies. The firm’s turn-key systems and bespoke equipment are built to suit its customers’ needs with the highest quality levels with total respect for the environment and in compliance with the newest international standards.

Linde boosts its liquid hydrogen production at the McIntosh, Alabama facility, now generating up to 30 tons daily to meet growing demands in manufacturing, electronics, space launch, and mobility sectors.

Fette Compacting presented innovative production technologies such as the new i Series and versatile analysis devices such as the F Lab Series at the recently held Powtech exhibition in Germany.

ADM and Marathon Petroleum Corp. have inaugurated their joint venture soybean processing complex, Green Bison Soy Processing, in North Dakota, USA. The project is expected to meet the growing demands for renewable green diesel in the region.