The groundbreaking ceremony was hosted to celebrate the final phase of the methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) expansion project at its Verbund site in Geismar, Louisiana, USA. The project is expected to increase production capacity to approximately 600,000 metric tons annually to meet the growing demands of its MDI customers in the North American region.

Arkema has entered into a long-term agreement with Engie for the supply of 300 GWh of renewable biomethane every year. The move is claimed to be one of the largest private biomethane deals in Europe.

Global chemical company Kuraray switched the documentation procedure at its process plant in Höchst, Germany and opted for Rösberg’s Prodok NG computer aided engineering system for instrumentation and control. Stepwise and automatic migration of the existing plant data to the new consistent CAE system enabled Kuraray to set the course for future plant modernizations.

Itochu has been selected for Japan’s ‘Imported Neat SAF Model Demonstration Project’ under which the company will import neat SAF from Neste and demonstrate its blending with fossil jet fuel. This is Japan’s first import of neat SAF.

The deal with Italy-based firm Sea Vision Group will enable the Marchesini Group to create packaging lines which are even more integrated with vision and inspection systems. The acquisition aims to combine Marchesini Group’s mechanical engineering business with some of the leading software and vision companies in Italy.

Kubota Corporation has taken over Brabender Technologie, one of the largest gravimetric feeding system firms in the world. With this move, the company intends to further expand its business in the gravimetric and volumetric feeder market.

Under a strategic partnership between Origin Materials and Indorama Ventures, both the firms will work towards accelerating the mass production of bio-based materials. For this, the companies will also explore the option of converting an Indorama Ventures’ U.S. facility into a bio-based materials plant in order to develop and commercialize low-carbon bio-based materials.

Producers of food and household chemicals have to protect their products on the pallet in a energy and resource efficient way. To achieve this, they must be able to process more films made from recyclates. The new, modularized high-performance packaging system from Beumer proofs, that operators can combine both goals.

Before new active ingredients can achieve market success, comes drug delivery. OSDs continue to rank highly as the formulation of choice. Why the pellet is probably the most versatile active ingredient formulation, but at the same time the most underestimated.

Continuous production has arrived in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector and it’s not going away anytime soon. Spurred on by the ever-increasing number of innovative and at the same time very expensive active ingredients, the pharmaceutical industry is relying on technology to reach the market faster and to ensure less wastage of expensive active ingredient used for clinical samples, scale up and release procedures. How are new drugs changing the rules of the game in production?