Womble Bond Dickinson announced today that Damian C. Georgino has joined the firm’s Corporate and Securities Group as a partner in the Charlotte, N.C. office. Damian advises U.S. and international corporations, including Fortune 50 companies, financial institutions, private equity funds, and other investors in complex transactions involving water and wastewater, energy, industrial/manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and natural resource projects.
Cambrex announced today the completion of a $50 million expansion of its large-scale active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing capabilities at its Charles City, Iowa facility. The startup of the new manufacturing space is the culmination of a two-year project, originally announced in 2020, to increase the capacity of Cambrex’s flagship API facility by 30%.
Pilot Chemical Corp. today announced an agreement with Integrity Bio-Chemicals (IBC) to be the exclusive marketer of IBC’s Tegrasurf TM line of high-performance biosurfactants into the North American Household, Industrial & Institutional (HI&I) markets. Tegrasurf TM products offer a substantial reduction in carbon footprint relative to many conventional surfactants while also exhibiting superior performance in foam stability and surface tension reduction.
Milliken & Company is moving boldly to address anticipated market needs by expanding the facilities and capacity it acquired last March via its purchase of Germany’s Zebra-chem GmbH. Zebra-chem is a specialty compounder and chemicals company that makes additive and blowing agent concentrates for polyolefins, PVC and engineering thermoplastics.
Haynes and Boone, LLP has promoted to counsel 11 lawyers from the firm’s Austin, Dallas, Dallas-North, Denver, Houston, London, Orange County, Palo Alto, and San Francisco offices.
LANXESS closed fiscal year 2021 successfully. Despite immense increases in energy, raw material and freight costs, the specialty chemicals company significantly improved its sales and earnings.
The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates’ (SOCMA) Board of Governors held its first in-person meeting of 2022 on Monday, February 28, in Fort Worth, TX, to kick off the association’s new trade show.
Cambrex, a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) providing drug substance, drug product, and analytical services across the entire drug lifecycle, today announced it is significantly expanding its existing biopharmaceutical testing services business.
MFG Chemical, a global leader in specialty and custom chemical manufacturing, announces the hiring of Katy Zukis, Business Development Manager. In addition to driving top line sales growth, Katy will be shaping MFG Chemical’s Oil and Gas SBU strategy, optimizing the product portfolio and developing a robust pipeline. Katy will work out of MFG Chemical’s sales office in Houston.
SOCMA recently submitted a formal letter to United States Trade Representative (USTR), Ambassador Katherine Tai, requesting a meeting on the 301 China Tariffs. The purpose of the meeting is not only to urge USTR to reopen the exclusion process for chemicals imported from China, but to educate and inform USTR on the concerns and impacts of the tariffs on the specialty chemicals industry.
