In June, Germany will once again be the centre of the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries worldwide: The 34th Achema will take place from 10 to 14 June 2024 in Frankfurt. The trade fair will be accompanied by a varied and extensive congress programme on all five days.

Under a MOU signed between both the parties, Thyssenkrupp Uhde and Johnson Matthey will make use of their individual expertise to offer a fully integrated blue ammonia solution.

Whether it’s for density, sound velocity or refractive index, Anton Paar provides all three methodologies on a single platform for the inline concentration measurement of liquids. This article reviews the foundational principles that underpin each of these critical measurement methods.

HIF Global has selected Johnson Matthey’s e-methanol emerald technology to develop its Paysandú e-fuels project in Uruguay. The project will use green hydrogen and waste CO2 from an ethanol plant to produce e-methanol.

Process excellence — Fette Compacting has been scoring points in the market for a long time. Now the market leader in tablet presses is going through a reinvention and presenting itself to the pharmaceutical, nutrition and chemical industry as a process partner for powder formulation and tableting. Why this is the way forward for the machine manufacturer?

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.

Holcim recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Go4zero plant which is engineered to produce 2 million tons of net-zero cement per annum by 2029 in Obourg, Belgium. The planned investment for the project is more than 500 million euros.

H2 Energy Esbjerg has awarded ABB with a contract to provide electrical engineering support for its green hydrogen production facility in Denmark. The new 1 GW facility is expected to produce 90,000 tons of green hydrogen per year.

The CPHI Frankfurt report offers an insight into the opportunities for biologics production and CMOs in 2023. It states that outsourcing of biologics globally is expected to rise in 2023 as China’s innovation engine stalls.

India's chemical industry is one of the fastest growing in the world and contributes 3.4 % to the global chemical industry. A dedicated focus on developing sustainable specialty chemicals and investing significantly in R&D and technology is trending in this burgeoning sector.