Foeth has acquired Italian machinery dealer Intimac. With this move, the previously family owned company further expands its position in the refurbished machinery business for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries.

In industrial rice processing, up to 20 percent of the grains break. This is partly due to the milling of the rice grains on their way from raw material to end product. Process engineers use particle simulations to understand this complex process and design it in such a way that losses are reduced.

A throwback to a trade show that made one thing clear: the future of aseptic technology is contactless, data-driven, and within reach. At CPHI 2025 in Frankfurt, it became obvious where pharmaceutical production is headed. Where gloves used to be mandatory in isolators, robots, AI, and contactless systems are now taking over – more precise, safer, and more sustainable than ever before.

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.

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.

Alfa Laval has recently introduced the next generation of condition monitoring solution. The new solution makes use of artificial intelligence and is specifically designed for hygienic process plants in order to provide more accurate analysis and support.

Merck welcomed leading representatives from the semiconductor industry to discuss the role of Germany and Europe in the global semiconductor industry. The industry gathering took place in Darmstadt, Germany.

Repsol has decided to extend its collaboration with Accenture with an aim to speed up the use of gen AI across the company as well as to advance the goals of its Digital Program.

Digitate and Tata Chemicals have joined hands for an AI-powered spend intelligence solution which is expected to power enterprise-grade procurement.

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.