DSM’s Anti-Infectives business says it will close a clavulanic acid production site at Strängnäs, Sweden. The site mainly produces clavulanic acid, which is used in the... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/14562.html
Just one week after signing a major deal to co-develop bio-based isoprene with Goodyear, Genencor has announced that it has signed an agreement with Huntsman to co-develop... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/14384.html
Bayer HealthCare says it has acquired biotechnology company Direvo Biotech (Cologne) for €210 million ($298 million). Direvo specializes in protein engineering and... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/14309.html
Danisco’s enzymes technology division Genencor and tire and rubber producer Goodyear today disclosed that they will collaborate on a major project to develop a process for... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/14245.html
The establishment of a global biofuels industry “will be much more difficult to achieve than originally thought,” according to a study published this week by consulting... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/14107.html
BASF Plant Science and the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB; Ghent, Belgium) say today they have signed a “major cooperation agreement” in the field of plant... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/13957.html
Monsanto says it has entered into a five-year partnership with Evogene (Rehovot, Israel) focused on identifying plant genes that improve yield, fertilizer utilization, and a... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/13931.html
Roche has announced plans to acquire two biotechnology firms in North America. The company says it has agreed to purchase biotech company Arius Research (Toronto) for about C$191... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/13419.html
Ineos says within two years it plans to begin the commercial production of ethanol, which could be used to fuel vehicles, derived from biodegradable household waste. Generating ethanol... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/13162.html
Shell says it has increased its ownership of biofuels technology firm Iogen Energy (Ottawa) to 50%, up from 26.5%, as part of a strategy to accelerate its program to manufacture... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/13051.html
DSM says it has acquired "the business and substantially all of the assets" of Valley Research (South Bend, IN), a privately held biotechnology company founded in 1984, which... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12927.html
Cargill says it has broken ground on a $22-million, renewable polyols manufacturing plant at Chicago. The facility will produce Cargill's proprietary soybean-based polyols—an... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12882.html
Contract fine chemicals firm Lonza (Basel, Switzerland) says it has secured a deal with biotech firm Osiris Therapeutics (Columbia, MD) to manufacture what could be the world’s... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12796.html
Wacker Biotech (Jena, Germany), a subsidiary of Wacker Chemie, says it has signed a licensing agreement with biopharmaceutical company Xoma (Berkeley, CA), to use Xoma’s... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12613.html
Percivia, a biotech research business jointly owned by biotech firm Crucell (Leiden, the Netherlands) and DSM, says it has significantly raised the yield of its mammalian cell-based... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12502.html
Wacker Biotech (Jena, Germany), a wholly owned subsidiary of Wacker Chemie, says it has completed a feasibility study demonstrating that the company’s secretion technology can... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12118.html
Biofilms, or bacterial communities that form on a range of surfaces from water pipes to medical devices in hospital patients, have come under the microscope at BASF. That is because... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12128.html
Monsanto and Syngenta say they have agreed to settle all outstanding litigation related to the companies' genetically modified (GM) corn and soybean businesses. The disputes include an... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/12066.html
Contract manufacturer and pharmaceutical services company Catalent Pharma Solutions (Somerset, NJ) says it plans to more than double its bioreactor capacity by adding a 1,000-liter... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/11989.html
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