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…
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…
Guangdong Liquid Sunshine has selected Johnson Matthey (JM; London) as a technology partner for its first commercial-scale project - a biomethanol plant planned in Tiandong County, Guangxi. The two companies, alongside the East China Engineering Science and Technology Co. (ECEC),…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) announced plans to build, own and operate a new air separation unit (ASU) in the City of Cocoa, Florida. The ASU will produce liquid oxygen, nitrogen and argon. The plant is targeted to be on…
Saipem S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese, Italy) has signed with Eni Industrial Evolution the main contract for the realization of the new Priolo biorefinery in Sicily, a project announced on February 3 by Eni and Q8 Italia. The contract, which has…