Located in Hanau, Germany, Evonik’s new GMP facility will produce pharmaceutical lipids for advanced and pharmaceutical drug delivery applications. It will also offer lipids for clinical and small-scale commercial manufacturing.

Idemitsu and Toray have plans to develop Japan’s first biomass ABS resin supply chain. Under the collaboration, they will produce biomass styrene monomer derived from biomass naphtha and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene resin.

Bilfinger has been selected by The Lapwing Estate to develop a pilot plant. The new unit will be a part of the ‘reverse coal process’ developed by The Lapwing Estate. The process aims to convert CO2 emissions back into solid carbon while producing food with measurable positive environmental and social impact.

Plug Power has entered into a strategic relationship with Nikola Corporation to accelerate the hydrogen economy. Under this collaboration, Plug Power will supply green hydrogen to Nikola from January 1, 2023 and Nikola will also purchase a 30 TPD liquefaction system from Plug for its Arizona Hydrogen Hub.

Umicore has plans to begin commercial production of its manganese-rich HLM (high lithium, manganese) cathode active materials (CAM) technology for electric vehicles by 2026. This innovative solution offers lower cost, high energy-density and is a sustainable battery technology.

The CPHI Pharma Awards 2023 has opened for entries and it invites global innovators, scientists, entrepreneurs and social leaders to participate in it. The Award show has launched three new categories –accelerating innovation, start-ups and being at the heart of pharma.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing Europe’s largest green hydrogen hub to Sulzer offering technologies for the world’s first commercial scale e-methanol plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Lonza has successfully completed the expansion of its bioconjugation facility in Visp, Switzerland. The plant now includes two manufacturing suites along with supporting infrastructure which will help the firm to meet the growing demand for bioconjugates.

Wood has secured a Feed contract by Gen2 Energy to develop a new 100 MW green hydrogen production facility in Mosjøen, Norway. The plant is expected to produce around 45 tonnes of green hydrogen daily.

Emirates recently conducted a demonstration flight in which one the aircraft’s engines was powered with 100 % sustainable aviation fuel from Neste. Both the parties worked with other partners as well such as GE Aerospace, Boeing, Honeywell and Virent to develop a sustainable fuel that matched the properties of conventional jet fuel.