Dupont’s healthcare manufacturing facility in Heredia, Costa Rica has expanded its sterile operations by adding sterile packaging capacity to it. With this expansion, the company has now become the first company in Costa Rica and the Caribbean to produce fluid management and sterile packaging offerings for the medical device industry.

Sunhydrogen has teamed up with The University of Texas at Austin – Center for Electromechanics to install, commission, and operate a more than 30 m² proof-of-concept hydrogen production system at UT-CEM’s Hydrogen Protohub research facility.

Nouryon has recently inaugurated its Innovation Center for oilfield applications in Houston, Texas, USA. The new Center intends to focus on research and development for sustainable drilling and completion, production, and stimulation processes, and will also serve as a platform for workshops and training sessions.

Coesia presented a dedicated portfolio of high-performance technologies for pharmaceutical and healthcare applications at Pharmintech 2025, held alongside Ipack-Ima from May 27 to May 30. At Hall 2, Booth B28-C27, Coesia showcased how automation is transforming pharmaceutical manufacturing, with a strong focus on precision, compliance, digitalization, and process integrity.

Purecycle Technologies has plans to expand its polypropylene recycling capacity by bringing one billion pounds of installed capacity online before 2030 across the United States, Europe and Asia.

With an aim to address the European Union’s water challenges, Alfa Laval has joined the One Water consortium which is engaged in a bid to secure the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's latest Knowledge & Innovation Community focused on water.

Kemira has plans to expand its sodium borohydride powder production capacity at its Äetsä site in Finland. For this purpose, the firm will also introduce a new production line and some additional process safety improvements for the plant for an investment of under 10 million euros.

Bühler Group has launched Optibake, the world’s first inductively heated wafer oven. The solution boasts of improving quality, operational flexibility, efficiency and is also capable of slashing energy consumption by 50 % as compared to conventional gas-fired wafer baking ovens.

With an aim to expand its US operations, Hydrograph Clean Power has leased a new 20,000-square-foot headquarters facility in Austin which is expected to replace the firm’s current space and represents an increase of nearly 100 % in size. The facility is scheduled to be operational by February 2026.

Europe’s largest e-fuel production plant in Frankfurt, Germany has commenced operations. The project Era One is expected to produce up to 2,500 tonnes of carbon-neutral e-fuels annually.