Pietro Cassani, CEO of Marchesini Group, has one more reason to celebrate this year. He looks back on 50 years full of innovation and passion for pharmaceutical packaging. For the future he emphasizes artificial intelligence and sustainability. And employees, he says, are the company’s most important asset.

Astrazeneca has plans to develop a manufacturing facility for antibody drug conjugates in Singapore. The project is claimed to be Astrazeneca’s first end-to-end ADC production site.

Four industry players – Arcelor Mittal, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, BHP, and Mitsubishi Development have begun operating a pilot carbon capture unit on the blast furnace off-gas at Arcelor Mittal Gent in Belgium.

Resource scarcity, mobility, nutrition and climate protection are among the global challenges and megatrends of our time. Mechanical process engineering plays an important role here, because without mixers, separators, extruders, dispersers and the like, many production processes would come to a standstill.

Using a decanter to produce biofuel from organic waste: Organic waste goes into the air - at least that is Bisviridi's vision. The subsidiary of the British biogas specialist Biotech4 wants to convert oil and fat waste into crude oil for biofuels. Process engineering plays a decisive role in this...

BASF uses certified biowaste raw materials to replace fossil resources at the beginning of the production process. Also, the firm makes use of electricity from renewable sources for the manufacturing of the ammonia and urea products, further reducing their production-related emissions.

Under an agreement between BASF and International Process Plants (IPP), IPP will market ammonia, methanol and melamine plants which are located at BASF’s Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Under a supply agreement for 65,000 metric tons per year of circular feedstock, Dow and Freepoint Eco-Systems will advance their shared goal to support a circular economy for plastics in North America.

Tsubame BHB has developed an ammonia synthesis method that makes use of electride catalysts. The electride catalysts enable the synthesis of hydrogen and nitrogen at relatively low temperature and pressure levels, leading to reduced environmental impact of the ammonia synthesis process.

MHI-LCSC, a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kiewit have been awarded a Feed contract for the carbon capture technology at Heidelberg Materials North America’s Edmonton CCUS project.