No-one who deals with highly active substances in OSD development can avoid the issue of containment. However, the smaller scale places different demands on equipment compared to the equivalent steps in production. What do developers need to look out for, and what practical solutions are available? We look for clues between the laboratory and the plant.

Manufacturing company Lonza announced plans to establish a new large-scale, commercial drug product fill and finish facility to support customers across the entire product life cycle. The company will invest approximately 520 million dollars in the facility.

The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, and the threat of future pandemics created by novel viruses is very real. There is a growing need to supply a global market with innovative medicines at a profitable cost. So pharmaceutical equipment manufacturers have to react quickly, while maintaining due levels of diligence and social responsibility. To meet this demand, we at Ima Group operate in highly specialized pharmaceutical divisions, focusing on specific processing and packaging areas, in order to provide our customers real added value based on two main criteria.

Amidst growing demand, Neste has plans to expand its renewable products refinery in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. With this move, the company will expand its overall renewable product capacity by 1.3 million tons annually, thus, leading to the firm’s total renewable product capacity in Rotterdam to 2.7 million tons per annum.

At the centre of the Marchesini Group’s presence at this year’s Achema is the state-of-the-art solution for the packaging, serialisation and traceability of blister products, developed in association with strategic partner SEA Vision — a company specialising in vision systems.

To deal with the global plastic waste problem, at great deal of hope is placed in chemical recycling processes. But can the process hold up to these high expectations? An expert discussion at Achema Pulse addressed the potentials and challenges of the technology. PROCESS worldwide listened in on the session and summarized the most important statements for you.

Air Liquide and Siemens have formed a joint venture (JV) to produce large-scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe. In the new JV, Air Liquide will hold a 25.1 % stake while the remaining stake of 74.9 % will be held by Siemens Energy.

In the past, “more is better” often applied to process optimization – companies sometimes invested considerable effort to keep all processes in the optimal range and suppress every disturbance. But not all anomalies in processes are equally relevant to the profitability of a plant. With artificial intelligence (AI) methods, events can now be directly evaluated for their business relevance, thus opening up new possibilities for companies in the economic optimization of processes.

In response to rising demand for lightweight materials for special applications, Evonik is expanding its production of closed-cell high-performance rigid foams under the Rohacell brand at its Mobile site in the United States.

Scientists at NTU, Singapore, in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ), have created a membrane made from a waste by-product of vegetable oil manufacturing, which can filter out heavy metals from contaminated water.