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Lonza to expand HPAPI manufacturing capacity at Visp site

Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced plans to enhance its drug-linker center of excellence and expand payload-linker manufacturing capacity at its Visp site. The expansion will establish new commercial-scale capabilities for the manufacture of highly complex and highly potent active pharmaceutical…

Schneider Electric to acquire AI firm Cognite for $3.1 billion

Schneider Electric SE (Paris) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Cognite Holding (Tempe, Ariz.), a leading provider of industrial data and AI software, in an all cash transaction valued at $3.1 billion. Industrial…

New powder-coating system allows primer and topcoat to cure together in a single bake cycle

OneCure is a patented dust-on-dust (DoD) powder-coating system that allows primer and topcoat to cure together in a single bake. OneCure has transformed finishing operations for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) needing speed, durability and consistency at scale. Built from multiple…

Lithium Hydroxide Production: How Does Electrolysis Stack Up on Cost?

The growing demand for lithium, driven by the rapid expansion of electric vehicles and energy storage systems, has intensified interest in more sustainable and economically viable refining technologies that permit domestic refining capacity. Electrolysis-based lithium refining presents a promising alternative…

Ionomer-free plastic for vacuum packaging applications results from collaboration

Ionomers (polymers that can form cross-links between chains due to ionized functional groups) are often used for vacuum-packaged products because they have the strength needed to resist puncture and tearing when vacuum is applied. Due to material shortages for ionomer…

World-first sewage-treatment trial proves comprehensive dual-phase PFAS removal

An ongoing large-scale demonstration project in Australia is the world’s first to apply a foam-fractionation technology to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a sewage-treatment plant. The Surface-Active Foam Fractionation (SAFF®) technology developed by EPOC Enviro (Emu Plains, NSW,…

Patent granted on system for feeding biomass to high-pressure reactors

One of the challenges for biofuels manufacturing is reliably feeding low-density feedstocks into high-pressure reactors, because it is difficult to feed agricultural and forest residue, as well as municipal solid waste, into pressurized systems without bridging, compaction and flow instability.…

Pilot project debuts integrated hydrogen storage and transport using aqueous-salt technology

Hydrogen production is expanding across the globe, but hydrogen gas remains difficult and costly to store and transport, restricting its broader use. A pilot project in Germany is demonstrating for the first time a salt-based process for long-term hydrogen storage.…

New insights into graphene oxide’s strengthening effects in concrete could accelerate commercial development

The nanomaterial graphene oxide (GO) has been investigated as a way to improve concrete strength, but reported results of GO’s effects have been inconsistent and detailed understanding of the mechanisms of its strength-enhancing effects has been elusive. New studies by…

Electrified process converts CO2 and biochar into industrial products

The production of salable co-products can substantially improve the economics for CO2 conversion processes. A new electrified thermochemical process developed by startup Reduciner Oy (Espoo, Finland; www.reduciner.com) combines captured CO2 streams with biochar to produce carbon monoxide, along with activated…