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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2021, 99 (18), p 11May 17, 2021Cite this:C&EN 99, 18, 11AbstractBASF plans to spend “double-digit millions” of dollars to expand its platinum-group-metal recycling capacity in Seneca, South Carolina. Sources of the metal will include spent catalysts like automotive catalytic converters. LanzaTech and BASF say they have achieved laboratory-scale production of 1-octanol via bacterial fermentation of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The firms say they now aim to develop an efficient process for large-scale production. Novasep will spend about $4.8 million to expand manufacture of high-potency active pharmaceutical ingredients for antibody-drug conjugates at its Le Mans, France, site. The effort will create about 30 jobs. The drug services firm opened a $14 million bioconjugation facility in Le Mans in 2017. Catalent has added a 3,000 m 2 facility to its cell and gene therapy site in Gosselies, Belgium, with the acquisition of a subsidiary of Promethera Biosciences. The operation is adjacent to a plant Catalent recently bought from Delphi Genetics. The newView: PDF | Full Text HTML
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