Lonsen Kiri Chemical Industries, a joint venture between LongSheng Group, China and Kiri Industries, India, successfully produced the first bulk quantities of Levafix Blue CA, a fluoro-triazine (TFT) based reactive dye, at their site in Gujarat, India. The production and quality control was carried out with DyStar's supervision.

Lanxess subsidiary Saltigo has increased production capacity by converting an old fine chemicals plant into a new multipurpose facility. Join us on a tour of the new plant. Gleaming boilers and shiny-clean tiles— even at first glance, you can tell that Saltigo’s new API plant is no chemicals plant in the traditional sense.

For 65 years, family company Endress+Hauser has managed the balancing act of constantly striving for innovation while never forgetting about its roots. Then and today, the main focus has always been on serving the customer. How this can be done in the era of digitalization is highlighted by Günther Lukassen, Managing Director of Endress+Hauser Germany, and Nikolaus Krüger, member of the Executive Board at Endress+Hauser.

It is essential to select the right equipment in order to achieve reliable results when measuring humidity. The same is true of calibration processes which are carried out at regular intervals and should be based on traceable standards. This will serve to guarantee reliable results in the long term.

At its plant in Waco, Texas/USA, Allergan packs single-use eye drop vials in cartons of various sizes, and also in sealed plastic trays. Previously these two packaging types needed two separate equipment lines, but for the last few months the company has been using a GMP-compliant packaging line which can do both.

Located in Alabama, the plant is Arkema’s maiden facility in the USA. The move is in line with the firm’s ambitious growth strategy for developing high-performance polymers and advanced materials.

When talking today about solid dosage form production, often containment immediately becomes one of the issues. Why?

JGC Corporation has been awarded the contract for the construction of a Methionine production facility for Sumitomo Chemical Company to be located in Niihama City.

Seamless documentation of all process values is required in order to further optimize processes and systems. Previously, far-away systems such as tank farms and pump stations could only be incorporated into the process automation with a large investment or not at all. The GSM network offers a simple solution to this problem if the safety criteria for areas subject to explosion are taken into account.

The fresh facility is expected to handle an annual production capacity of approximately 400,000 tonnes of ADN and is claimed to be the first world-scale ADN plant to be built in a long time.