Last month we had a very successful meeting in Le Havre. It was well organized by Haropa and its partners and we discussed the different strategies by chemical clusters and chemical parks. The presentations can be found on our website.

Fastest-Acting Phytase Activates Earlier in The Animal’s Digestive Tract, Improving Profitability and Performance While Reducing Waste and Improving Environmental Footprint

Takeda announced that it has completed the construction of new manufacturing facilities at its site in Oranienburg. The new facility at a total cost of around 100 million euros, is scheduled to begin operating at the end of 2017. The state of Brandenburg and the German federal government each contributed half of the approximately 23 million euros in subsidies for the plant expansion.

INEOS is looking at sites across Europe including Antwerp in Belgium for its new world scale 750,000 tonne PDH plant. INEOS is planning to increase the capacity of its crackers at Grangemouth in Scotland and Rafnes in Norway to over 1 million tonnes each. With these cracker expansions, INEOS will have added up to 900,000 tonnes of ethylene to its overall production capacity “These are three major new projects”, says Jim Ratcliffe, founder and chairman of INEOS. “Collectively, it’s the equivalent of building a new world scale cracker in Europe”.

AkzoNobel is to invest more than €10 million in Sweden to expand capacity for its chelated micronutrients, which are used as essential ingredients in the agricultural market.

Gives Takeda in-house production capacity to meet global demand for NINLARO® (ixazomib). Puts Drug Substance, Drug Product, Packaging and Quality Control all under one roof. Expected to become operational in the second half of 2018

Kilfrost, will begin manufacturing its aircraft de- and anti-icing products, from its state-of-the-art plant in Antwerp, Belgium increasing the security of supply of their safety critical frost protection products.