Roeland Baan earlier held the CEO position at Outokumpu, a global stainless steel company before joining Haldor Topsoe. With significant global work experience, he took charge of his responsibilities on June 2, 2020.

Dr. Matthias L. Wolfgruber will succeed Dr. Klaus-Jürgen Schmieder as Altana’s new Chairman. Previously, Wolfgruber has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the company. Prof. Dr. Frank Richter has also been newly elected to the firm’s Supervisory Board.

The global healthcare company GSK and Samsung Biologics have entered into a partnership. The cooperation is to secure additional manufacturing capacity for innovative biopharmaceutical products.

Under the terms of the contract, BP will license its latest generation of PTA technology to Dongying United Petrochemical for the production of purified terephthalic acid in China. The technology will be used at Weilian Chemical’s new plant.

Dr. Samir J. Serhan joined Air Products in 2016 as executive vice president and since then his role was continuously expanded to meet the requirements of different businesses. With his new appointment, he will be in-charge of full profit and loss responsibility for the Americas business.

Seraplant and Glatt Ingenieurtechnik have jointly developed an innovative technology for residue-free production of phosphate-containing fertiliser granulates from sewage sludge ash.

Beneficial for the wastewater treatment industry, the Anita Mox treatment plant makes use of the Anammox bacteria to break down nitrogen in wastewater. Veolia Water Technologies and Urban Utilities are expected to install Asia Pacific’s first full-scale sidestream plant in 2020.

The two industrial giants Air Products and Haldor Topsoe have signed a global Alliance Agreement. The companies plan to collaborate in the development of potential projects and the combination of their expertise on large-scale ammonia, methanol and/or dimethyl ether plants to be developed and built globally.

Under the agreement, Covestro will be supplied with raw materials produced with Neste’s renewable hydrocarbons and aims to replace several thousand tonnes of fossil raw materials used in the production of its polycarbonates.

Syntegon will be hosting a virtual trade event from May 7–13 to showcase its latest process and packaging technology. The company announced stable business performance last year and is currently witnessing increased demand in its services business due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.