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SOCMA Safety Solutions and Core Considerations for Reintegrating Employees Back into the Workplace

In this post, SOCMA shares the following core considerations for developing return to work plans. The following information was compiled based on information shared during a SOCMA roundtable with DanChem, Strem Chemicals, Inc and Sun Chemical Corporation. A template return to work plan is in development and will be available in the coming week.

May 8, 2020

COVID-19 | Customer Letter | Advanced Chemical Concepts

Customer letter from Advanced Chemical Concepts to address COVID-19 challenges.

May 6, 2020

Moderna and Lonza Announce Worldwide Strategic Collaboration to Manufacture Moderna’s Vaccine (mRNA-1273) Against Novel Coronavirus

Moderna, Inc. and Lonza Ltd. today announced a 10-year strategic collaboration agreement to enable larger scale manufacture of Moderna's mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1273) against the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and additional Moderna products in the future.

May 5, 2020

Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc. Acquires Gelest and Bimax from New Mountain Capital

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Gelest Intermediate Holdings, Inc., the parent of Gelest, Inc. and a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, LLC.

April 30, 2020

Lonza Announces Results of the 2020 Annual General Meeting – All Motions Proposed by Board of Directors Accepted

Today, Lonza Group Ltd hosted its Annual General Meeting, led by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Albert M. Baehny. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, no shareholders were admitted to attend the Annual General Meeting in person.

April 28, 2020

MFG Chemical Partners with EcoVadis to Improve Sustainability

MFG Chemical, a global leader in specialty and custom chemical manufacturing, is partnering with EcoVadis to measure and continuously improve its sustainability profile.

April 27, 2020

GFS Chemicals, Inc. Launches New e-Commerce Website and Corporate Profiles Page

GFS Chemicals, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of its newly redesigned e-commerce website and Corporate Profiles pages.

April 24, 2020

FEMA Initiative to Provide Cloth Masks to Critical Infrastructure

April 20, 2020 Re: FEMA Initiative to Provide Cloth Masks to Critical Infrastructure The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has initiated... View Article

April 20, 2020

SOCMA Identifies High Demand Products

SOCMA has gathered information on high-demand products used to combat COVID-19 and partnered with EchoSystem to support B2B connection.

April 19, 2020

Aceto Acquires Syntor Fine Chemicals

Aceto, a leading virtual manufacturer of specialty materials for life sciences, nutrition, agricultural, and advanced technology end markets and a New Mountain Capital portfolio company, announced its acquisition of Syntor Fine Chemicals today. Syntor is an asset-light manufacturer of fine chemicals for pharmaceutical and other life sciences end markets.

April 17, 2020

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