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Cambrex investing $120 million to expand U.S. manufacturing sites

Cambrex (East Rutherford, N.J.), a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced a $120-million investment to expand its U.S. operations, addressing increased demand for API development and manufacturing, and accelerating the company’s leadership role in the fast-growing peptide…

Axens to acquire Ketjen’s stake and take full ownership in Eurecat

Ketjen Corp. and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) announced a change to Ketjen and Axens’ ownership of and collaboration with Eurecat. Under the agreements, Ketjen will extend its collaboration with Eurecat on advanced catalyst technologies and services, including regeneration, rejuvenation, ex-situ sulfiding,…

Symrise invests in U.S. biomanufacturing firm Cellibre

Symrise AG (Holzminden, Germany) announced a strategic equity investment in Cellibre, a U.S.-based biotechnology company specializing in sustainable biomanufacturing. This partnership positions Symrise at the forefront of fermentation-derived ingredients that are better for both people and planet. It will initially…

TotalEnergy sells its GreenFlex consultancy business to Oteis

TotalEnergies SE (Paris) and the independent French consulting and engineering group Oteis have signed a deal for the sale of TotalEnergies’ sustainable consultancy and solutions affiliate GreenFlex to Oteis, a divestment that reflects TotalEnergies’ strategy to concentrate its activities on…

Novoloop announces strategic partnership to scale up production of post-consumer TPU materials

At the K Show, Novoloop (Menlo Park, Calif.) announced a strategic partnership with Shanghai Huide Science & Technology Co., Ltd. to scale the production of Novoloop’s Lifecycled thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). The collaboration is formalized through a five-year Contract Manufacturing Agreement,…

Evonik opens fumed alumina production plant in Japan

Evonik Industries AG (Essen, Germany) has officially opened its first state-of-theart fumed alumina production facility “Alu5” in Yokkaichi, Japan, which marks a major step forward in the company’s strategy to serve the Asian market with advanced aluminum oxide-based solutions. This…

Saint-Gobain completes construction of gypsum mine in British Columbia

Saint-Gobain Canada announced that its CertainTeed Kootenay West Gypsum Mine has completed the final phase of construction and entered full production capacity with the installation and commissioning of permanent equipment on site. The Kootenay West Gypsum Mine located near Canal…

Air Water acquires new gas plant at Tata Steel plant in eastern India

Air Water Inc. (Osaka, Japan) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Air Water India Pvt. Ltd., has acquired a large-scale gas plant currently under construction at Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur plant in Jharkhand, Eastern India, and has entered into a 20-year…

ABB secures major plant electrification contract with SSAB’s new fossil-free steel mill in Sweden

ABB, Inc. (Zurich, Switzerland) has been awarded a contract by SSAB (Stockholm, Sweden) to deliver the main electrical infrastructure for the steelmaker’s new fossil-free mini-mill in Luleå, Sweden. The order includes the design, supply, installation and commissioning of the main…

John Cockerill and Axens launch new torrefaction technology for renewable fuels production

John Cockerill (Seraing, Belgium) and Axens (Rueil-Malmaison, France) launch the NesaBTF™ torrefaction technology, a pretreatment solution for the renewable fuel chain BioTfueL® process developed by BioNext, a consortium between Axens, CEA, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Avril, TotalEnergies, and ThyssenKrupp Uhde. The…