At the 2024 European Responsible Care Awards, Cefic has gone on to recognize 23 initiatives for advancing Antwerp declaration ambitions. The awarded initiatives reflect the chemical industry’s important role in strengthening Europe’s industrial base while addressing key priorities.

Perstorp has plans to begin manufacturing a new range of synthetic esters at its acquired plant in the Netherlands in early 2025. With this, the company plans to target the specialty fluids markets and become a recognized leader and supplier of synthetic fluids.

Gevo has taken over Cultivate Agricultural Intelligence with an aim to combine Cultivate AI’s digital agriculture data and analytics platform with Verity’s carbon accounting and tracking solutions. This move will help Verity to provide the highest quality data-driven solutions for carbon abatement in food, feed, fuels, and industrial markets.

Rockwell Automation and Microsoft have got together under an expanded strategic collaboration to revolutionize industrial transformation. Under this partnership, both the firms will provide manufacturing customers with advanced cloud and AI solutions that deliver powerful data insights, streamline operations and enhance scalability – driving operational efficiency and sustainable growth across the industry.

With a high double-digit million-euro figure investment, BASF has inaugurated its new catalyst development and solids processing center in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The new center will be used by BASF to develop and optimize innovative process technologies and catalysis processes.

Clariant’s Megamax catalyst has been selected for China’s biomass gasification-to-green methanol project. The project is expected to use a combination of farm waste and wind power to produce up to 250,000 tons per annum of green methanol.

Scheduled to be held from November 26 – 28, 2024, CPHI & PMEC India will be hosting its 17th edition this year at the India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi-NCR. India’s pharma industry is on an impressive growth trajectory, expected to reach 65 billion dollars by 2024 and to double to 130 billion dollars by 2030.

Plug Power and Carreras Grupo Logístico have plans to launch a complete green hydrogen ecosystem in Spain. With this initiative, the first hydrogen-powered logistics site will be established in Spain at Carreras Grupo Logístico's logistics center in Barcelona.

Merck has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hub Organoids Holding, a Netherlands-based firm which specializes in adult stem cell-derived organoids. The transaction is expected to close at the end of December 2024.

Industrial smart sensors are in high demand across various industries and the rise of Industry 4.0 as well as the Industrial Internet of Things are the core reasons behind this market scenario. The many advantages, trends as well as the future of industrial smart sensors within the next decade are all highlighted in this article.