Evonik has started-up a new production plant for gas separation membranes in Austria. With a hefty investment of double-digit million-euros, the plant aims to meet the firm’s goal of increasing its sustainable Next Generation Solutions.

Evonik has plans to expand its production capacity of Metamino (DL-methionine) on Jurong Island, Singapore, by 40,000 metric tons to around 340,000 metric tons annually. For this, the project will require technological development which will help in process optimization, thus, improving the carbon footprint of Metamino produced in Singapore by six percent.

Google Cloud’s Tensor Processing Units will be used by Bayer to speed up its in-silico research and development. The move will help the company to accelerate and scale its quantum chemistry calculations.

Covestro plans to invest a figure in the three-digit million Euro range for developing its Thermoplastic Polyurethanes (TPU) site in Zhuhai, China. On completion, the project is expected to have a production capacity of nearly 120,000 tons of TPU annually.

Sea Vision has plans to exhibit its AI-powered Automated Line Clearance software at the upcoming Interphex tradeshow in New York, USA. The technology will be showcased for the first time in the US.

Volpak, a Coesia company, is launching a new Enflex brand series for the pharmaceutical and healthcare market: Enflex PHS Series, which comes in different models depending on production needs. This machine range meets the specific requirements of an industry that is increasingly interested in flexible packaging, especially in the stick-pack format.

Gerhard Schubert will be presenting a wide range of packaging solutions at the upcoming trade fair of interpack 2023. Some of its most recent innovations include cobots for the rapid feeding of different packaging components on a line, an extremely compact filling machine for cosmetic products and an entirely new, efficient, resource-saving feeding system for carton blanks.

Under a MOU with Baker Hughes and Fortescue Future Industries, both the parties will work together to explore opportunities for the scale-up and adoption of novel technology solutions which would help to decarbonize the energy sector as well as hard-to-abate industrial sectors including mining, steel and cement.

The UAE and France have plans to launch a bilateral program under which both the firms will combine their expertise to develop opportunities in order to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries including clean hydrogen solutions for mobility. The program will be launched in the background of the Cop28 climate change conference which will be held in Dubai this year.

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