With the groundbreaking ceremony, the specialty glass manufacturer SCHOTT has given the go-ahead at its Müllheim site for the construction of a new production facility for sterile pharmaceutical primary packaging made of polymers. The state-of-the-art plant, planned and to be realized with the suppo…

Osteoarthritis and other serious diseases can be successfully treated in the future with cell therapeutics if it is possible to produce the starting materials for the new drugs and active substances on a large scale at low cost. To this end, an international research team is developing a fully autom…

Pfeiffer Vacuum, one of the world's leading providers of vacuum technology, has announced that the ATC by Pfeiffer Vacuum Mass Extraction leak testing process meets FDA standard F3287 for leak testing. This shortens the FDA approval process for pharmaceutical products that require leak testing signi…

- Start-up and large family-owned company now in the same hands
- Two mutually complementary portfolios
- German RepRap remains a separate company

The notarised signing of the purchase contract on 12 February 2020 officially confirmed the takeover of German RepRap GmbH, based in Feldkirchen, by the en…

Roughly 2000 exhibitors are expected to participate at the 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing in Friedrichshafen from the 13th through the 17th of October, 2020. They’ll provide expert visitors with a comprehensive overview of all plastics technologies – from injection moul…

In an interview, Dr.-Ing. Felix Lenk explains what a good digital strategy looks like—and what changes the laboratory of the future will bring to the daily work in the laboratory. Lenk heads the SmartLab Systems research group at the Technical University of Dresden. With his team, he is organizing a…

Camfil, market leader in air cleaning solutions, introduces the next generation of high-volume HEPA filters for sensitive processes: the Absolute V product line. These filters stand for increased safety and productivity while consuming less energy. Absolute V, the new HEPA filter generation, continu…

At the last edition of the trade fair duo comprising interplastica, International Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber and upakovka – Processing & Packaging, there were already signs that the Russian market was moving out of the trough again – at least for the packaging and related processing indu…

Following its successful premiere in 2018, POWTECH India, the leading trade fair on the Indian subcontinent for powder, bulk solids and process technologies, will enter its second round this year. POWTECH India will take place at the Bombay Exhibition Center in Mumbai from 9 to 11 September 2020. Co…

The Piepenbrock Group of Companies can call itself "Top National Employer" for the seventh consecutive year in 2020. The award is given by the news magazine Focus in collaboration with the review platform kununu. The basis consists of more than four million employee judgments across 900,000 companie…