Nouryon has completed a $ 22.5 million project at Sundsvall, Sweden that raises production capacity for its Expancel expandable microspheres. These products are used to enhance the properties of products ranging from shoe soles and food packaging to wind turbines.

Rovnag Abdullayev, President of Socar, and Murat Gigin, President of Tekfen Holding, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the construction of a new urea production facility in Azerbaijan.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB and the University of Stuttgart aim to use the climate-damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a raw material for the production of chemicals. To do this, they are developing a combined plasma and membrane process that splits CO2 into oxygen and the chemical base material carbon monoxide.

In recent years a steady stream of bad news of deflation, structural crises and a shrinking population have increasingly dampened public interest in Japan as the second biggest economy in the world. In many cases the incredible economic growth of its huge neighbor, China, has also meant that current developments in Japan are being overlooked. This feature provides a brief insight into the Japanese pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets.

Toray Industries is going to construct a large-scale facility to manufacture carbon paper for electrode substrates of fuel cell stacks at its Ehime Plant.

Aspen Technology, a leading provider of optimization software for the process industries, has announced the availability of aspenONE Manufacturing and Supply Chain V8.7 software.

Ineos Styrolution announced the completion of the acquisition of the global K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymers (SBC) business from Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (Chevron Phillips Chemical) and Daelim Industrial.

Eaton has integrated a new generation of stacked disc cartridges using Becopad premium depth filter sheets into its range of products to provide a more efficient and cost-effective stacked disc cartridge filtration.

Royal DSM has recently started a new production line for Arnitel in Emmen, the Netherlands. The move will enable the company to meet the growing demand for Arnitel high-performance Thermo Plastic Copolyesters in the region.

FDA regulatory compliance is a mission-critical requirement. If the FDA finds a manufacturer to be non-compliant to or in violation of FDA rules, the consequences can be severe with warning letters, mandatory product recalls, temporary shut-downs, criminal penalties and fines depending on the severity of the violation. These penalties imposed could seriously dent the manufacturer’s brand image, and at times could even cripple the manufacturer financially.