Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the leading international trade medium PROCESS awarded the "Milestone Award in Chemical, Pharma and Process Engineering“ to 16 supplier companies that served as industry pioneers and innovators.

The ‘Hygreen Provence’ project will be developed via this deal which aims to produce, store and distribute green hydrogen. The project will make it possible to produce 1,300 GWh of solar electricity and renewable hydrogen on an industrial scale.

Haldor Topsoe and Sasol have signed a collaboration agreement under which both the firms will continue to supply their core technologies and also offer Topsoe’s hydroprocessing and hydrogen technologies. The move will enable customers to get access to a single-point licensing offering for proven gas to liquid solutions.

An innovative room containment concept provides contract manufacturer R-Pharm Germany unmatched flexibility in small batch production. After prize-winning Newcon, R-Pharm lands a new coup with the Product and Process Development Center (PPDC). The new development center is a highlight in flexibility and high containment.

Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council, expects chemical production in the European Union to have declined by 1 % in 2019 compared to 2018. For 2020, chemical production is expected to stay on the same level as in 2019.

On November 14, 2019, the Vogel Pharmaceutical Industry Smart Manufacturing Forum (VPISM Forum) was successfully concluded in Changzhou, China. This year's conference had the motto "Pharmaceutical Enterprises Heading towards smart Manufacturing" and was supported by Schneider Electric and Fette.

Fluor Corporation and Bayer placed the final steel beam for Bayer’s new cell culture technology center being constructed in Berkeley, California.

... after not quite four years! Even the radar experts from the German Black Forest area themselves were surprised that the rather conservative market accepted the new technology so quickly. A look back and into the future.

Total announces the final investment decision (FID) to develop the Anchor oil field. Additionally, front-end engineering and design (FEED) has begun for the North Platte discovery. Both projects are located in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana.

BASF will continue to invest in its coatings site in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province in South China, by constructing a new facility for automotive refinish coatings that will start production in the first half of 2022.