MilliporeSigma (Billerica, Mass.; www.emdgroup.com) announced the expansion of its state-of-the-art single-use current good manufacturing process (cGMP) facility with the addition of the Mobius 2000-L single-use bioreactor. With the new upstream suite at its Biodevelopment Center in France, MilliporeSigma can offer full…
The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) announced the signing of an agreement between Linde and alternative energy company Renergen for the development of the Free State Helium and Natural Gas (NG) field near Welkom in South Africa, expected to commence…
BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, Germany, www.basf.com) sold its former sterols manufacturing facility in Pasadena, Tex., to Trecora Chemical (TC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Trecora, a leading provider of high purity specialty hydrocarbons and waxes. Both parties agreed not to disclose…
Following the enlargement and modernization of the production facility in Fiorenzuola d’Arda-Italy, FPS Food and Pharma Sysems Srl (Como, Italy; www.foodpharmasystems.com) has dedicated a specific area to its new R&D and Test Center. Three ISO8-grade test suites allow the execution…
Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.com), a leading global industrial gas company, announced an investment in excess of $100 million in its Geismar, Louisiana, facility to expand its carbon monoxide production and support growing customer demand in the Mississippi River corridor.…
The logistics company Hoyer (Hamburg, Germany; www.hoyer-group.com) has expanded its Kombi Terminal Schkopau (KTSK) in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The terminal has been lengthened by 220 m and equipped with a second portal crane. New transhipment points and new storage capacities have…
ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, changed the world of alarm management when first published in 2009 with the introduction of activities grouped into the alarm management lifecycle, according to ISA (Research Triangle Park, N.C.; www.isa.org). That…
The American Chemistry Council’s (ACC; Washington, D.C.; www.americanchemistry.com) Global Chemical Production Regional Index (Global CPRI) shows that the first quarter ended on a soft note, with the headline index essentially flat on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis during…
Amec Foster Wheeler plc (London, U.K.; www.amecfw.com) DeltaValve, LLC (Sandy, Utah; www.deltavalve.com), a leading provider of equipment and control systems for the delayed coking segment of the petroleum-refining industry, have formed a strategic alliance related to DeltaValve’s center feed technology.…
Solvay S.A. (Brussels, Belgium; www.solvay.com) is to suspend until further notice the production of soda ash at its plant in Alexandria, Egypt, as sharply higher energy costs have undermined the plant’s profitability. Customers will be served from Solvay’s other soda…