Three production plants, more than 170 employees, and a turnover of over 22 million Euros characterize Vitabalans Oy. This Finnish company develops, manufactures and markets prescription medicines, OTC medicines, food supplements and veterinary products. Now the company expands and builds up a new factory in Finland.

Harmonization of European laws has increased the stringency of requirements covering design, safe use, and leakage control in pumps. When handling inherently hazardous liquefied petroleum gases (LPGs) pump designs should tick all the regulatory boxes as well as bring economic benefits to operators.

Arrow Pharmaceuticals acquires the Australian operations of Amneal Pharmaceuticals for AUD 17 million. The acquisition will enable the company to accelerate its market reach and also help it to become one of the leading players in the Australian generics market.

Signed between an agency, institute and three pharmaceutical companies, the initiative aims to develop the country’s pharma manufacturing sector by transforming its manufacturing operations and technologies. The Ministry for Trade and Industry also encourages manufacturing in the country.

Porvair Filtration Group has recently announced a new range of resin bonded filters for aggressive chemical applications.

Akzo Nobel announced a new management structure for its Paints and Coatings business in advance of creating two focused high-performing businesses; Paints and Coatings and Specialty Chemicals.

Transportation and disposal of ash in thermal power station burning high sulphur coal — Coal is the primary fuel for a thermal power plant. Few power plants burn imported coal and pet coke which contains higher quantity of sulfur. While burning this type of fuel, lime will be injected to absorb the sulfur dioxide liberated while burning the coal in order to reduce the quantity of sulfur dioxide emitted in to the atmosphere along with the flue gas. The ash generated contains Calcium sulfate and unburnt CaO.

The rapid exploration of China's vast coal reserves and the country's efforts to build a domestic, coal based basic chemicals industry offer new potentials for innovative Methanol-to-Propylene (MTP) technology. Air Liquide's subsidiary Lurgi was now assigned to build a second MTP plant for a Chinese coal industry group.

Amec Foster Wheeler has been awarded a $ 604 million engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) fixed price contract for part of a $ 1.85 billion methanol plant being developed by Yuhuang Chemical Inc (YCI) in Lousiana.

The UK-based firm Technip FMC has revealed that its strategy of segregating into two companies—Technip FMC and Technip Energies—is under progress and is expected to be complete in 2020.