The CABB Group has established a unified organization ‘One CABB’ to accelerate growth as well as to serve its customers better. The company is also looking at a potential Initial public offering (IPO) to achieve its goal of strengthening its position as one of the premier contract development and manufacturing companies for crop science and life sciences. With the change in corporate structure, the Group’s business units Custom Manufacturing and Acetyls will be combined into one company structure.

Carbon, the Silicon Valley based tech company has developed the liquid resin which enables mass production of 3D printed parts. Covestro, the firm’s partner for this project will ensure that scale-up and high-volume production of this material is carried out smoothly.

Collaborative approach between users and solution providers is the need of the hour for manufacturing renaissance in India. Realizing this fact, Frost & Sullivan had organized Industrial Technologies Summit, which acted as a knowledge sharing platform. Additionally, the company acknowledged the companies, which have established best practices in enhancing overall customer value addition.

Since the market for a new plasticizer, DPHP, is increasingly strong, Perstorp plans to invest in new capacity for production of valeraldehyde and its derivatives.

Sartorius acquired through its subgroup Sartorius Stedim Biotech the company MKS Instruments AB (Umetrics) based in Malmö, Sweden. In addition, Sartorius completed the acquisition of U.S.-based Essen Bioscience signed on March 3, 2017, after receiving antitrust clearance.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan has selected Chiyoda and Mitsubishi to conduct a feasibility study on the construction of a hydrogen supply chain by using the Spera hydrogen technology. The project, part of both the companies’ feasibility studies for the overseas deployment of high-quality energy infrastructure, aims to scale-up the hydrogen supply chain and reduce prices through increased hydrogen demand in Singapore, Japan etc.

HaloPolymer experts presented an analytical overview of the fluorspar global market. Main market trend, according to the company, is reducing volume of extracted raw materials in China and geographic shift in production.

Automation company ABB announced the acquisition of B&R, the largest independent provider focused on product- and software-based, open-architecture solutions for machine and factory automation worldwide.

The new FieldConnex DART Fieldbus system from Pepperl+Fuchs lets users take full advantage of the benefits of fieldbus technology where intrinsic safety is required for Zone 1 hazardous areas. This is achieved through a significant increase in intrinsically safe power. Reduced capital expenditure is achieved through larger networks, more devices connected, and a system that is easy to understand and to engineer.

Since January 2020, Chinese pharma companies have entered into four deals with siRNA players to develop innovative siRNA-based therapeutics in the background of its huge potential in the pharma industry as well to enhance their pipeline portfolios. This includes Hansoh Pharma’s strategic alliance with Silence Therapeutics which is claimed to be the third biggest siRNA-based strategic alliance globally in terms of the deal's overall value (16 million dollars) since Jan 2020.