Anton Paar Acquires Brabender GmbH & Co. KG

Integration as Anton Paar TorqueTec GmbH

09-Aug-2023 - On August 1, 2023, Anton Paar acquired the German company Brabender, which will be integrated into the Anton Paar Group as Anton Paar TorqueTec GmbH. The effective, retroactive date of the acquisition is January 1, 2023. The company, based in Duisburg, Germany, offers measurement and process ...

Röhm to build innovation center in Worms

Pooling of research activity in Germany - Research also strengthened in China and the USA

01-Feb-2022 - With the construction of a new state-of-the-art innovation center in Worms (Germany), Röhm intends to further expand its technology leadership. In future, around 100 scientists of the chemical company will work on the development of new products and processes under one roof. “By pooling our ...

BASF opens research center for catalysts and processes in Ludwigshafen

Highly automated testing facilities for continuous data supply

27-Mar-2019 - BASF officially opened a pioneering research center at the heart of the Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, close to the famous Ammonia Lab. This new pilot plant facility for catalyst and process development will be operated by the global research unit Process Research & Chemical Engineering. It houses ...

Successful ACHEMA closes in Frankfurt

15-Jun-2018 - At the trade show for the process industry, more than 3,700 exhibitors from 55 countries showcased the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharma and food industry. Whether in the classic process technology hall, the pump exhibition or in the plant engineering section, ...

STA Pharmaceutical to open new transition metal catalysis center

19-Oct-2017 - The center will allow STA to introduce transition metal catalyst-screening technology to their existing small molecule process development and manufacturing platform. STA Pharmaceutical, a WuXi AppTec company, has announced plans to launch a new transition metal catalysis center at their ...

New test center for up to 100 customer trials per year

23-Sep-2013 - Following an intensive planning and construction phase, Coperion GmbH, recently opened the world’s largest compounding test center. It replaces the existing test center and serves to provide customers both the optimum system design for required throughput rate capacity of compounding lines – ...

Bayer MaterialScience commissions new hydrogenation technical center

Pooling of research activities for the efficient production of MDI and TDI

17-Jan-2012 - Bayer MaterialScience has commissioned a new technical center for the development of isocyanate production processes at Chempark Dormagen. The research center was erected in just under a year with an investment of EUR 5 million. “All global research activities related to the production of ...

Enzymicals AG Acquires Proprietary Rights on Pig Liver Esterases (PLE) from Evonik AG

15-Oct-2010 - The Enzymicals AG gained proprietary rights for the well-known recombinant pig liver esterases (PLE) from Evonik AG in Hanau. The intellectual property (IP) covers a range of PLE isoenzymes for hydrolysis of several compounds such as esters of secondary and tertiary alcohols, lactones and ...

GreenCentre Canada signs collaboration MOU with Sarnia’s Bioindustrial Innovation Centre and Sustainable Chemistry Alliance

19-Aug-2010 - Three major Canadian players in the Green Chemistry commercialization business have joined forces in a drive to make Ontario and Canada a world leader in sustainable chemistry innovations. GreenCentre Canada of Kingston and Sarnia’s Bioindustrial Innovation Centre (BIC) and Sustainable Chemistry ...

FutureChemistry and Flowid implements Flow Chemistry for US based Solterra’s High Volume Quantum Dot Manufacturing Plan

26-Apr-2010 - FutureChemistry Holding BV and Flowid BV announced that they entered into a process development agreement with Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc., to apply flow chemistry for high volume production of high quality tetrapod quantum dots. These quantum dots, Solterra’s proprietary technology, ...