With a massive investment of 200 million dollars, Solstice Advanced Materials has plans to expand and modernize its electronic materials facility in Spokane Valley, Washington, USA. The company has already broken ground for the project.

With a mega investment of 6.5 billion dollars, Eli Lilly and Company has plans to develop a next-generation synthetic medicine active pharmaceutical product facility in Texas, USA. The facility will focus on manufacturing the company's pipeline of small molecule medicines across therapeutic areas.

A pharmaceutical plant in Berlin encountered issues with fragmented communication across disparate systems. They implemented a software solution to unify over 20 platforms into one cohesive tool. This integration improved transparency, reduced manual effort, and supported operational excellence by displaying performance indicators and aiding root cause analysis. The software significantly boosted efficiency and structured workflows, offering essential support to the plant's operations.

Marchesini Group will be presenting a 16-lane Stickpack machine at the upcoming Fachpack 2025 trade show in September. The solution boasts of offering the highest levels of efficiency and accuracy in the packaging of pharmaceutical products.

Claimed to be one of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation, BASF’s industrial heat pump at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany is expected to produce up to 500,000 tons of CO2-free steam per year. With a thermal output of around 50 MWs, the mega heat pump has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions at the site by up to 100,000 tons per year.

With an aim to expand its production capacity for semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid, BASF has plans to invest in a new semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The project is expected to meet the growing demand for advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing across Europe.

Roche’s US subsidiary Genentech has broken ground on a new manufacturing facility in Holly Springs, North Carolina. The 700-million-dollar project is expected to support the production of the company’s future portfolio of metabolic medicines, including next-generation treatments for obesity.

Thyssenkrupp Nucera has recently announced that it has successfully completed the acquisition of vital technology assets from Green Hydrogen Systems. The deal includes intellectual property as well as a test facility with a full-size prototype in Skive, Denmark.

With an aim to accelerate expansion into the Southeast Asian market, Lotte Chemical has developed a new petrochemical complex in Indonesia. A completion ceremony for the project was also recently held in the country.

Hydrogen is currently being discussed a lot in many places – on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet, on social media, and at events. It is also a hot topic in Bremerhaven, Germany, where this energy carrier is literally providing a tailwind on the path to climate-neutral mobility. At the Grauwallring industrial estate, Hy.City.Bremerhaven uses a wind turbine generator for the electrolysis of hydrogen directly on site.