ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is boosting the presence of its pharma division in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with the acquisition of the Polish company APON. APON produces plastic packaging for the pharma industry at its site in Żyrardów near…
Entegris, Inc. (Billerica, Mass.) announced that it has completed its acquisition of CMC Materials, Inc. (Aurora, Ill.). “It is an exciting day at Entegris. With the closing of the acquisition of CMC Materials, we are creating the global leader in…
Lonza AG (Basel, Switzerland) announced plans to construct a large-scale commercial drug product fill and finish facility in Stein, Switzerland. The investment will enable the company to provide customers with a complete and integrated end-to-end solution that includes commercial drug…
Technip Energies (Paris) has been awarded a large Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) contract by Hafslund Oslo Celsio, the largest supplier of district heating in Norway, for a world-first carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at waste-to-energy plant located in Oslo,…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.) and power generator VPI signed a joint development agreement to drive forward the “Humber Hydrogen Hub” or “H3”, which seeks to develop a flagship 800-MW low-carbon hydrogen production facility in Immingham, UK. The majority of…
Shell Nederland B.V. and Shell Overseas Investments B.V., subsidiaries of Shell plc, have taken the final investment decision to build Holland Hydrogen I, which will be Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant once operational in 2025. The 200MW electrolyzer will be…
AkzoNobel (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is to bolster its performance coatings portfolio after reaching an agreement to acquire the wheel liquid coatings business of Lankwitzer Lackfabrik GmbH. Completion, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is expected before the end of 2022.…
Wood plc (Aberdeen, Scotland) has secured a new multi-million-dollar front-end engineering design (FEED) contract by Pakistan Refinery Ltd. (PRL) for its planned Refinery Expansion and Upgrade Project (REUP) in Karachi. PRL’s refinery, situated on the coastal belt of Karachi, is…
Versalis S.p.A. (San Donato Milanese), Eni's chemical company, and Forever Plast, an Italian company and European leader in the recycling of post-consumer plastics, have signed a new agreement as part of a project aimed at transforming the Porto Marghera industrial…
Ineos (London) has announced that the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia has confirmed €770,000 funding to support a feasibility study for the construction of a 100-megawatt water electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen at the INEOS site in…