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CHANGING STRATEGY EXPANSION
Ørsted backs out of wind-powered green hydrogen Sirio opens packaging facility on German site

projects in Denmark Sirio Pharma, a China-based nutra-
ceutical contract development and
Danish offshore wind energy deve- manufacturing organisation (CDMO),
loper, Ørsted, has withdrawn from two has invested €16-mn in a dedicated and
green hydrogen projects after a review purpose-built packaging facility, with
of the company’s Power-to-X projects, automated packaging lines, at its Pritz-
according to reports in Europe. Power- walk campus near Berlin, Germany.
to-X (P2X) is Ørsted’s umbrella term This brings its total investment at the
for turning wind energy into something site to €19-mn over the last fi ve years.
else – in this case, green hydrogen.
This investment follows a record-
Ørsted said it is pulling out of the breaking year for the company, with
Danish government’s “Green Fuels for revenues reaching €469-mn, refl ecting
Denmark” project, a 300-MW green a 43% year-on-year growth as the
hydrogen-based sustainable aviation CDMO continues to expand its presence
fuel (SAF) project that had secured and capabilities across Europe, APAC manufacturing site, all operating under a “We have grown signifi cantly in re-
EU funding. Involving players such as and USA. unifi ed pharmaceutical GMP standards cent years and, as a result, have doubled
Maersk, Copenhagen Airports, DFDS, “The H2RES consortium has jointly green fuel fi rms Everfuel Europe, Nel regimen, approved for both human and down on investing in advanced manu-
DSV, Topsoe, Nel and Everfuel, the decided not to continue the project Hydrogen, Green Hydrogen Systems, The new facility features state-of- veterinary medicinal products. facturing technology. With our state-
project was set to produce hydrogen for since a sub-scale demonstration plant DSV Panalpina, Hydrogen Denmark the-art bottling and blistering lines, of-the-art packaging facility, we now
e-kerosene. like this no longer has a relevance in and Energinet Elsystemansvar. This supporting both bulk supply and private The new packaging lines are offer full-service, pharmaceutical-grade
the current market,” said Mr. Robert consortium will reportedly be dissolved label options. This enables Sirio to offer equipped with advanced process-con- softgel development in Germany. By
The company is also exiting a Duncalf, who heads Ørsted’s business following Ørsted’s decision. customers a complete end-to-end solu- trol technologies, including a fully completing everything from R&D to
smaller 2-MW hydrogen production development and P2X activities in tion, from formulation development to automated bottling line with robotic fi nal packaging on a single site, we offer
project called ‘H2RES’ that planned to Europe. The company said it will focus on fi nal product packaging. palletisation. Operating to pharmaceu- signifi cant advantages to our customers,
demonstrate how offshore wind can be its core business which is wind energy tical-grade GMP standards, these pack- who benefi t from pharma-grade quality at
used for green hydrogen production at a Alongside Ørsted, the consortium projects with green hydrogen only as a The facility is designed to ensure the aging lines guarantee rapid processing, every phase of production,” commented
site near Copenhagen. working on H2RES project included complementary technology. seamless transfer of pharmaceutical and with production-to-delivery times as Ms. Sara Lesina, General Manager, Sirio
Europe & Americas.
nutraceutical softgels from the adjacent fast as three weeks.
In-cosmetics Asia’s ‘Innovation Zone Best Ingredient Petro Rabigh, Jiahua Chemicals to explore speciality
Awards’ shortlist announced chemicals manufacturing

The shortlist for the 2024 In-cos- The ‘Best Active Ingredient’ cate- Petro Rabigh, the Saudi Arabian range are widely used
metics Asia Awards has been revealed gory include names like Algaktiv, Codif joint venture between Saudi Aramco in construction and au-
following a record number of entries TN, DSM-Firmenich, Givaudan, Lipo- and Sumitomo Chemical, has inked an tomotive sectors.
this year. Winners will be announced True, Provital, Rahn, Silab, Solabia, and MoU with China’s Jiahua Chemicals
at the In-cosmetics Asia awards cere- Vytrus Biotech. The awards will also to explore the establishment a manu- “This strategic colla-
mony on November 5 in Bangkok, celebrate the ‘Spotlight On’ Formulation facturing facility in Rabigh, Saudi boration aligns with
Thailand. This year, 20 entries have Award winners, featuring over 40 formu- Arabia. Saudi Arabia’s strategy
been shortlisted from a total of 100, lated personal care ingredients judged set forth by the Ministry
marking the highest number of sub- live at the show, as well as honour the The facility will focus on the pro- of Energy to boost local
missions to date. ‘9 Faces of the APAC Beauty Industry’. duction of several speciality chemicals downstream and specia-
like Brasca, Elementis, IOI Oleo, Kaffe The ‘9 Faces’ initiative celebrates the derived from ethylene oxide and pro- lity chemicals produc-
The shortlisted nominees for the Bueno, Lessonia, Lubrizol, Lucas innovators, changemakers, and unsung pylene oxide which are the key mate- tion and reduce reliance
‘Best Functional Ingredient’ category Meyer (Clariant), Oleon, Seiwa Kasei heroes who have signifi cantly contributed rials for this project supplied through on imports,” said Petro
include innovations from companies and Wilmar. to the region’s personal care sector. Petro Rabigh. The targeted products Rabigh.

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