Fujifilm has plans to invest a hefty sum of 20 billion yen in its semiconductor materials business with an aim to further strengthen its facilities for the development, production and quality evaluation of advanced semiconductor materials in Shizuoka and Oita, Japan.

Yara has inaugurated a new ammonia import terminal in Brunsbüttel, Germany. With this project, the company has the potential to import up to three million tonnes of low-emission ammonia to Europe annually.

Honeywell has joined hands with Chevron to develop advanced artificial intelligence-Assisted solutions which have the capacity to help plant operators to make decisions with regards to enhancing efficiency for refining processes and improving safety within the industrial automation space.

Marco Beyl and Johannes-Thomas Grobe have been appointed as CFO and CEO Pharma at Optima Group respectively. They will succeed their predecessors who will be continuing to support the company in an advisory capacity.

Mc Dermott has bagged an engineering, procurement, construction and installation contract from Qatar Energy LNG for the North Field South Offshore Pipelines and Cables Project. The project is part of the North Field Expansion Project, which will help increase the total LNG production in Qatar from the current 77 million tons per annum to 142 MTPA.

Lonza has successfully completed the acquisition of Roche’s large-scale biologics manufacturing site in Vacaville, California for 1.2 billion dollars. With a total bioreactor capacity of around 330,000 liters, the Vacaville site is claimed to be one of the largest biologics manufacturing facilities in the world.

Lanxess has recently sold its Urethane Systems Business to UBE Corporation. With this move, Lanxess has exited its last remaining polymer business and aims to rapidly transform the firm into a pure-play specialty chemicals company.

Yes! Almost everyone wants to eat nutritious food to maintain their overall health but what if the food was created by microbes or animal cells? Maybe not. The food industry is looking to change this perception by introducing numerous food items such as plant-based meat, lab-grown meat as well products from the precision fermentation technique.

Covestro is currently focusing on future technologies to accelerate on the way to a full circular economy. The company has also realized that a global digitalization strategy in R&D is a key building block on this way.

Under a MOU signed between ABB and Carbon Re, both the firms will work together to explore how ABB automation expertise can be complemented by Re’s advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence technology.