With the takeover of the global, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company Amryt Pharma, Chiesi will be able to expand its capabilities and develop new treatments to patients living with rare diseases.

After securing the contract for the world’s largest melamine plant recently, Eurotecnica has now won two additional large contacts for developing melamine plants with a capacity of 60,000 tonnes per year and 80,000 tonnes per year capacity, respectively.

Safran Aerosystems has plans to purchase Air Liquide’s oxygen and nitrogen aerospace technology activities, excluding marine-related cryogenic activities. The move is in line with Air Liquide’s strategy of focusing on its key activities to maximize its performance.

When developing a nanoformulation, innovative strategies and equipment are essential to success — but typical preparation processes often require minimum quantities. Extensive screening via a method that is both fast and economical can therefore become one of the most important steps in bringing a product through the development phase.

Axens, SMS group and IFP Energies nouvelles have entered into a co-development agreement for the optimization of the Reverse Water Gas Shift technology which plays a vital role for converting CO2 to renewable or low carbon fuels and chemicals intermediates.

The European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) has recently issued a statement on the publication of the European Commissions’ Net-Zero Industry Act. The Council is not satisfied with the Act and is calling for a comprehensive industrial policy.

BASF has made Tobias Dratt in charge of the Division Global Business Services in Ludwigshafen, Germany and Marc Ehrhardt has been given the responsibility for the Division North America, BASF Corporation in Florham Park, New Jersey.

thyssenkrupp At.Pro tec is well known for the development of the sequence impulse process (SIP). When used on cupola furnaces, it considerably increased their cost-effectiveness in the past. In over 10 years of development work with Schubert & Salzer as their partner, Dr. Rainer Klock and the team at At.Pro tec succeeded in getting the SIP technology to work on blast furnaces, too, with the help of sliding gate valves. This is a story of a researcher who is on his way to becoming a plant manufacturer.

At the centre of the Marchesini Group’s presence at this year’s Achema is the state-of-the-art solution for the packaging, serialisation and traceability of blister products, developed in association with strategic partner SEA Vision — a company specialising in vision systems.

Richard Stedman has rejoined the ACG Group and has been appointed as the CEO of the engineering division. Previously, he held the same post from 2017 to 2021 and he has an overall experience of 35 years in the Packaging, Engineering and Pharmaceutical manufacturing industries.