The partnership between Arkema and Catalyxx aims to accelerate the production of low-carbon, bio-based acrylic resins by making use of proprietary technology. Catalyxx intends to develop an innovative industrial facility to produce bio-alcohols while Arkema is assessing the use of these bio-alcohols as feedstocks for the commercial-scale production of bio-based acrylic resins with lower carbon footprint.

With a massive investment of 200 million dollars, Solstice Advanced Materials has plans to expand and modernize its electronic materials facility in Spokane Valley, Washington, USA. The company has already broken ground for the project.

With an aim to strengthen the supply infrastructure for industrial, food-grade, and medical gases for the aquaculture sector and other industries in southwestern Norway, Nippon Gases Norway has plans to build a new air separation plant at the Viganeset industrial area in the Hjelmeland municipality.

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.

Under a definitive agreement, Sumitomo Chemical has plans to take over the Taiwanese semiconductor process chemicals company Asia Union Electronic Chemical Corporation. With this move, the company aims to strengthen its global footprint and establish its first manufacturing base for semiconductor process chemicals in Taiwan.

Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation has plans to establish, own and operate a new air separation plant in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The new project is expected to strategically strengthen Matheson’s national network of air separation plants, particularly in the rapidly growing U.S. Sunbelt region.

Wood has won a feed contract for the Zeevonk hydrogen facility, in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Offshore wind and floating offshore solar energy will be used to power the project.

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.

A metaphor for an obvious, unresolved problem that everyone notices but no one talks about – that’s the famous elephant in the room. In the pharmaceutical industry, one specific topic immediately comes to mind: Annex 1. However, PharmaXchange at Bausch+Ströbel impressively demonstrated that this supposed “elephant” was not ignored here, but rather tamed – and viewed as an opportunity.

The pilot plant has the capacity to recycle complex waste streams from end-of-life vehicles via chemical recycling in order to produce raw materials for new vehicle components such as foam for steering wheels.