Electron beam welding, vacuum furnaces or freeze drying are just a few applications that can be realized with the new Roots pumps of the Hi Lobe series from Pfeiffer Vacuum.

Nouryon aims to expand its presence in the global metal alkyls market with this acquisition. The company has also expanded its production capacity at its Rotterdam site in the Netherlands and acquired the China-based metal alkyls producer Zhejiang Friend to strengthen its worldwide position.

Royal DSM has completed the acquisition of Glycom, one of the world’s leading suppliers of Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMO) for an enterprise value of 838 million dollars. With this move, the company intends to add HMOs to its portfolio in order to develop next generation early life nutrition solutions.

Creativity, reliability and flexibility is vital to build business relationships — The case study elaborates on a promising partnership between different companies regarding the design of R&D machines for the pharmaceuticals industry which resulted in developing good engineering solutions that focused on functionality, flexibility and personal safety.

In order to ensure the highest standards of hygiene, food producers and processors are obliged to clean their machinery regularly via washdowns. To guarantee that vacuum pumps are effectively protected from the used aggressive cleaning media, Leybold has developed a series of Hygienic Enclosures. The vacuum specialist offers users these stainless steel housings in seven different sizes, tailor made for each vacuum pump.

With its new partner It-motive, Aucotec wants to link its cooperative platform Engineering Base (EB) even more closely and rapidly to ERP and PLM systems. This will also make the idea of a holistic digital twin easier to implement.

The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, TNO has acquired Avantium’s bioaromatics business which includes patents and know-how of technologies that produce bio-derived products for polymers and coatings.

The new plant will be set up in China and is expected to produce 50,000 tonnes of sustainable engineered nylon compounds annually. This decision falls in line with Domo Chemicals’ global growth strategy which strongly focusses on the Asia Pacific region.

In the background of Covid-19, there is an urgent requirement for hand sanitisers across the U.S. Huntsman will donate the first 5-tonne shipment of hand sanitiser to Huntsman Cancer Institute and the associated medical facilities at the University of Utah to help protect the frontline workers treating coronavirus patients.

With the expansion, Klӧckner Pentaplast has increased its coating capacity by over 30 % and aims to support the growing South American pharmaceutical market. The facility will offer customers with high quality and innovative pharmaceutical packaging films with shorter lead times.