Evonik (Essen, Germany; www.evonik.com) has announced the opening of its PEEK Rectangular Magnet Wire Lab during an inaugural ceremony at the CHINAPLAS international exhibition for the plastics and rubber industry. Built to serve the needs of major Chinese and Asian…
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its microbiology business to Astorg, a leading pan-European private equity firm, for consideration of approximately $1.075 billion, consisting of cash and a $50 million…
Burns & McDonnell (Kansas City, Mo.) has been selected as the engineer-procure-construct (EPC) provider for BioMADE’s first demonstration-scale facility within its Pilot Plant Network. The facility, in Maple Grove, Minnesota, is designed to help move biotechnology from the laboratory to…
Usalco, LLC (Baltimore, Md.) announced the grand opening of its new production facility in Rancho Cucamonga, California, which was held yesterday. The facility is Usalco’s 27th U.S. manufacturing plant and represents a significant investment to expand regional access to critical…
Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) inaugurated a new blending plant at its chemical manufacturing site in Jhagadia, Gujarat, India on April 24. As part of the first phase of development, the facility will manufacture specialty lubricant additives. The new plant represents…
Elkem ASA (Oslo, Norway) has been awarded NOK 87 million by Enova to develop industrial biocarbon solutions that can increase the share of renewable carbon used at Norwegian smelters. The project, which has a total budget of NOK 242 million…
Loftware Connect is a new platform that redefines how organizations manage product identification across global supply chains, by introducing the industry’s first secure, scalable network that connects companies with their trading partners, replacing fragmented coordination with a unified digital foundation…
Nippon Shokubai Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) announced that it will expand its production facilities with an additional 10,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of production capacity for LiFSI (lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, trade name: IONEL), a lithium salt used as an electrolyte for…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany) announced that its Aroma Ingredients business unit has launched three newly built world-scale plants – menthol and linalool in Ludwigshafen, Germany, and citral in Zhanjiang, China. This announcement follows the inauguration ceremony of BASF’s Zhanjiang Verbund…
A new GB-35-ARL rotary batch mixer for glass mix/cullet, sand, ceramics, refractories, aggregates and other dry bulk abrasive materials achieves total uniformity in one to three minutes in batches from 5 to 35 cu. ft. (0.14 to 1 m3), regardless…