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Lonza to expand microbial manufacturing plant in Switzerland
Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced an expansion to the company’s microbial manufacturing facility in Visp, Switzerland. The new facility will provide mid-scale commercial manufacturing to multiple customers and in particular, serve the growing needs of Servier, an independent international pharmaceutical…
Indorama acquires PET recycling facilities in Poland
Indorama Ventures Ltd. (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand) announced that it has, through its indirect subsidiary Indorama Netherlands B.V., signed a Conditional Share Purchase Agreement with O.R.V. Ovattificio Resinatura Valpadana S.P.A. and OPOKA LTD., to acquire a 100% equity stake of Industrie…
Velocys delivers four bioreactors to Red Rock Biofuels’ plant in Oregon
Velocys plc (Oxford, U.K.) has completed the manufacturing and delivery of four reactors to Red Rock Biofuels (RRB) for the company's biomass-to-fuels facility. RRB has a further option to purchase an additional two reactors by the end of 2020. Henrik…
Henkel enhances packaging-recyclability assessment tool
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Düsseldorf, Germany) has further advanced its software tool EasyD4R — next to the recyclability of plastic packaging it now also allows to quickly and accurately assess the recyclability of packaging made of paper/cardboard, glass, aluminum…
Tpgroup announces contracts related to hydrogen safety and CCUS
tpgroup (Reading, U.K.) has secured a contract worth approximately £1.0 million with a leading UK engineering company to provide management control equipment for enhanced safety management of hydrogen gas. Under this contract, tpgroup will qualify the design concepts, build and…
Germany’s Westküste 100 green-hydrogen project secures funding
Ørsted Group A/S (Fredericia, Denmark) announced that the partners of the Westküste 100 project received funding confirmation from the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy as the first large-scale hydrogen project in Germany within the Reallabor (real-world laboratory)…
The Big 6 level measurement technologies: Where to use them and why
WHITE PAPER — The Big 6 level measurement technologies: Where to use them and why Anyone who’s ever worn a tool belt knows that sometimes you have to use a tool for something it’s not designed to do. If you…
GranBio and NextChem sign partnership to develop cellulosic ethanol market
GranBio S.A. (São Paulo), a 100% Brazilian industrial biotechnology company, and NextChem, Maire Tecnimont S.p.A.’s (Rome, Italy) subsidiary for energy transition announced a strategic partnership to achieve global leadership in the licensing of patented GranBio 2G Ethanol technology to produce…
Minimizing particle breakage and mother liquor residue in technical salts production
Technical salts and crystallization products have found a broad spectrum of different applications in the industrial sector in the past decades. One of the most frequently used salts is sodium chloride, which is an important component in the human diet,…
Remote, IoT-enabled monitoring of AODD pumps
SafeGuard (photo) is an IoT-enabled (internet of things) pump-monitoring system that remotely tracks, records and alerts users to key performance indicators — such as leak detection, stroke rate and total stroke count — of air-operated double-diaphragm (AODD) pumps during operation.…