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Evonik investing $100 million to expand API production site in Indiana

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) is making a significant investment to strengthen manufacturing capabilities at its Tippecanoe Labs site in Lafayette, Indiana. The site is home to one of the world’s largest facilities for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients…

Asahi Kasei completes new dry-film photoresist facility in Taiwan

Asahi Kasei Corp. (Tokyo) constructed a new slitting facility for SUNFORT™ dry film photoresist (DFR) at its manufacturing site in Tainan, Taiwan, on July 3. Commercial operations are scheduled to commence this month.  Asahi Kasei has been slitting SUNFORT™ DFR…

INEOS signs low-carbon hydrogen offtake agreement with H2BE

H2BE and INEOS Ltd. (London) announced that they have agreed preliminary commercial terms for the offtake of low-carbon hydrogen from H2BE, with an aim of supporting Ineos Project ONE's ambition to become the first zero carbon steam cracker in Europe.…

Eni makes investment in EnergyX lithium project in Chile

Eni S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) has signed an agreement to acquire a 25% stake in Energy Exploration Technologies, Inc.'s (EnergyX; Austin, Tex.) Chilean subsidiary company Black Giant SpA, developing a lithium project located in northern Chile, near the Salar de Punta…

Givaudan opens new manufacturing plant in Indonesia

Givaudan (Zurich, Switzerland) celebrated the grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art production facility in Cikarang, Indonesia. By expanding manufacturing capacity and accelerating innovation, the new facility will strengthen the Company’s ability to meet rising consumer demand for memorable food experiences…

Sumitomo Chemical to establish JV with Samsung Electro-Mechanics for semiconductor materials

Sumitomo Chemical Co. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that its wholly owned Korean subsidiary, Dongwoo Fine-Chem Co., Ltd. (Dongwoo Fine-Chem), has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Suwon, South Korea) to establish a joint venture company that…

Solstice Advanced Materials to acquire Element Solutions in $14.5-billion deal

Solstice Advanced Materials (Morris Plains, N.J.; formerly part of Honeywell) and Element Solutions Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Solstice to acquire Element in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $14.5 billion,…

Staying Ahead of the Curve: What the Latest Global Pharmacopoeia Updates Mean for Your Lab Balance Program

Regulatory requirements for laboratory balances in the pharmaceutical industry have undergone their most significant overhaul in years, with all four major pharmacopoeias — most recent USP 41 & 1251, Ph.Eur., JP, and ChP — now moving in concert toward clearer,…

Precision Where It Matters Most: Advanced Lab Balances for Pharmaceutical Quality Control

In pharmaceutical quality control, the margin for error is essentially zero — and the regulatory landscape governing how labs weigh, document, and report data is only growing more complex. This eBook provides a comprehensive look at the critical role that…

Know Your Numbers: Understanding Measurement Uncertainty in Precision Weighing

Even a perfectly calibrated laboratory balance raises an important question every scientist in a regulated environment must be able to answer: how confident can you be in the weight value displayed? This technical white paper, authored by Sartorius metrologists, walks…