Throughout April, Saint-Gobain (Courbevoie, France) has mobilized its production facilities to manufacture medical materials and components and products that can be used to build makeshift hospitals. Saint-Gobain’s Life Sciences unit, for instance, is prioritizing the production and delivery of COVID-19…
Together with six medical and technology companies, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Dusseldorf, Germany; www.henkel.com) has developed an innovative smart health patch that allows continuous, remote and wireless monitoring of the respiration, heartrate and soon also temperature of patients. The…
Amid the global COVID-19 crisis, Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany) and ALBIS PLASTIC GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) are committed to making materials available for urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE), including respirator masks, ventilators and protective eyewear. Covestro previously detailed its COVID-19 response…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland; www.clariant.com), a focused and innovative specialty chemical company, today announced it is donating approximately 80 tons of disinfectant per month to the Swiss Federal Authorities to support the protective measures during the COVID-19 outbreak. By establishing a…
The Chemical Activity Barometer (CAB), a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com), fell 5.5 percent in April on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis following a downwardly revised 2.9 percent decline in March.…
Lenzing AG (Lenzing, Austria) and Palmers Textil AG have founded a new joint entity — Hygiene Austria LP GmbH — in which Lenzing AG holds 50.1% and Palmers Textil AG 49.9%. The newly founded company will start producing and selling…
ExxonMobil Corp. (Irving, Tex.; www.exxonmobil.com) has reconfigured manufacturing operations in Louisiana to produce medical-grade hand sanitizer for donation to COVID-19 response efforts in Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. This follows the company’s announcements that it…
Sophisticated supercomputing systems can process massive numbers of calculations related to bioinformatics, epidemiology, and molecular modeling, and are expected to help scientists develop answers to complex scientific questions about COVID-19 in hours or days versus weeks or months. Now, some…
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (Philadelphia, Pa.; www.axaltacs.com) announced that it will supply E&R Powder Coating with more than 7,000 pounds of its Alesta AM antimicrobial powder coatings for bed frames at a temporary hospital at McCormick Place Convention Center in…
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers and the general public are facing shortages of hand sanitizers, and many manufacturers are augmenting their facilities produce the necessary ingredients. DEKRA North America (Atlanta, Ga.; www.dekra.us) is warning of the…