With an aim to accelerate localized innovation and customer collaboration in China, Nouryon has recently launched its new innovation center in Shanghai, China. The facility will significantly enhance the company’s technical capabilities with investments in testing and analytical equipment focused on high-growth sectors like agriculture, electronics, construction and pharmaceuticals.

Europe’s current high energy costs, regulatory complexity, and burden along with the increasingly fragmented markets pose a long-term risk to the region’s prosperity, shares the MOL Group. For this reason, the company urges Europe to unite behind a new industrial agenda.

Malema announced the global launch of its new M-3100 Series Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flow Meter. The high-performance, non-invasive ultrasonic transit-time flow measurement system is engineered for precise fluid velocity measurement in liquid-filled closed conduits which provides ideal for demanding semiconductor applications.

Supported by 94 million euros from the EU Innovation Fund, Topsoe’s mega facility is expected to manufacture high-efficiency electrolysis stacks for industrial-scale green hydrogen production. The factory will initially manufacture 500 MW of electrolyzers annually.

Crippling energy and carbon costs along with a lack of tariff protection has led Ineos to announce the closure of two of its production units in Rheinberg, Germany. The company will also focus on preserving its remaining PVC operations in Rheinberg to support around 300 skilled jobs.

Cellibre specializes in sustainable biomanufacturing and Symrise has made a strategic equity investment in the U.S.-based biotechnology company. With this move, Symrise will gain access to proprietary, fermentation-based technology which will assist in scalable production of high-value ingredients across food, beverage, cosmetics, and nutraceutical sectors.

With an aim to expand its business in India, Air Liquide has plans to acquire Novaair, a firm known for producing and supplying industrial gases in the country, from PAG, an Asia-focused private equity firm.

BASF and International Flavors & Fragrances have partnered together to accelerate the development of IFF’s Designed Enzymatic Biomaterials technology platform and also create next-generation enzyme technologies for fabric, dish and personal care as well as industrial cleaning applications.

BASF, Endress+Hauser, Technocompound, the University of Bayreuth as well as the University of Jena have partnered together to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be optimized. With this project, the partners will make use of innovative measuring technologies and AI to determine the composition of waste plastics in real time.

Under a cooperation agreement signed between Topsoe, Sasol, Griesemann Gruppe and the German Aerospace Center, all the parties will work together to enable the construction, operations and R&D activities of DLR’s e-fuels demonstration facility for research and production of e-SAF.