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New owner for Chemtrix

The AGI Group has acquired Chemtrix, a Netherlands-based maker of flow reactors for industry and academia. It said that this “will bring flow chemistry scale-up capabilities into the AGI Group, supporting both pilot and manufacturing solutions”. Terms were not disclosed.

MFG acquires testing firm

US custom manufacturing firm MFG Chemical has acquired Masters Company from private ownership. Terms were not disclosed and the deal has already been completed. Masters is based in Chicago and is active in the water treatment market, mainly in North America, though it has some international customers. It supplies reagents and test kits, carries out custom blending and manufacturing, makes private label products and offers analytical services for industrial water treatment.

Heraeus begins hydrogen business line

Heraeus Precious Metals has established a new dedicated Hydrogen Systems business line, headed by Dr Philipp Walter. This provides precious metal-based products for electrolysers and fuel cells, notably electrocatalysts for next-generation applications, plus technologies for precious metal recovery from production scrap and end-of-life materials, such as catalyst-coated membranes.

LG Chem breaks ground in Tennessee

Korea’s LG Chem has broken ground on a nickel-cobalt-manganese-aluminium cathode materials facility on a 170 hectare site in Clarksville, Tennessee. Starting in 2026, this will supply 60,000 tonnes/year of battery materials, enough for about 600,000 electric vehicles, and will be the largest of its type in the US.

Monsanto hit by PCB verdict

A jury has ordered Bayer subsidiary Monsanto to pay $73 million in compensatory damages and $784 million in punitive damages to seven former students and two parent volunteers at Sky Valley Education Centre in Monroe, Washington State, for health damage caused by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) it supplied.

Kao implements new production system

Japan’s Kao Corporation has introduced a new ‘dynamic cell production system’ for efficient, high-mix, low-volume manufacturing at its global cosmetics facility in Odawara. Test operations finished at the end of 2023, and operations will begin in stages shortly.

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