Ecolab has successfully closed the acquisition of Ovivo’s electronics business which is a leading and fast-growing global provider of breakthrough ultrapure water technologies for semiconductor manufacturing.

With an aim to strengthen the company’s capabilities for performance and quality evaluation of development products, accelerate the development of new materials for advanced and next-generation semiconductors and ensure a stable supply of high-quality products, Fujifilm has developed a new building for advanced semiconductor materials.

The German Chancellor His Excellency Friedrich Merz recently visited Adnoc on his official visit to the UAE. The visit follows Adnoc’s acquisition of Germany’s chemical giant Covestro for 14.7-billion-euros.

Asahi Kasei has collaborated with Nippon Steel and Nippon Steel Trading to convert pure titanium scrap generated during the manufacturing of electrolysis cells into a raw material for pure titanium.

Rockwell Automation has plans to develop a new greenfield manufacturing site in Southeastern Wisconsin, USA. The facility has the potential to be Rockwell’s largest manufacturing campus globally, with a significant footprint and the flexibility to scale operations.

Pushing heavy containers and manually supplying materials are things of the past at Bayer—at least in the new tablet production facility, Solida 1. Here, intralogistics work fully automatically. This is made possible by a unique software solution that orchestrates the robotic systems for material flow.

GEA has inaugurated a new technology center for pharmaceutical freeze-drying systems in Elsdorf, Germany. The move aims to strengthen the company’s position as a technology partner for the growing global pharmaceutical industry.

Aramco has recently commenced operations at the Tanajib Gas Plant, one of the largest gas plants in the world as well as started production at Jafurah, the Middle East’s largest unconventional gas field. With this, the company has announced major progress in its ambitious gas expansion strategy.

ABB has introduced the GCP100 gas chromatograph which has set a new standard in cybersecurity and real-time analysis of complex gas mixtures in the natural gas, biogas, oil and petrochemical industries.

Autonomous robots are the new smart technologies in the market and the who’s who of the industry are already planning to explore these solutions for their industrial facilities. Plant inspections can now be carried out multiple times in a day with high accuracy and precision.