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September 23, 2008
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/Genencor-and-Huntsman-to-Develop-Bio-based-Textiles_14384.html
September 22, 2008
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/Bayer-Acquires-Biotech-Company_14309.html
September 16, 2008
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/Genencor-and-Goodyear-to-Spend-More-than-$50-Million-Codeveloping-Bio-isoprene-Process_14245.html
September 10, 2008
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/STUDY-Creation-of-Biofuels-Industry-"Far-More-Difficult"-than-Anticipated_14107.html
September 3, 2008
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/BASF-Signs-"Major"-Plant-Biotech-Research-Deal_13957.html
August 28, 2008
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/Monsanto-Evogene-Team-Up-for-Stress-Resistant-Genes_13931.html
August 4, 2008
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/Roche-to-Acquire-Two-Firms-in-North-America_13419.html
July 25, 2008
BASF says it has initiated legal proceedings against the European Commission for the commission’s “failure to act” to approve BASF’s Amflora genetically...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/biotech/BASF-Takes-EU-to-Court-Over-GM-Potato_13213.html
July 22, 2008
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/Ineos-Unveils-Household-Waste-to-Ethanol-Process-Plans-Commercial-Plant_13162.html
July 17, 2008
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/Shell-Beefs-Up-Position-in-Next-Generation-Biofuel_13051.html
July 11, 2008
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/DSM-Buys-Enzymes-Business_12927.html
July 8, 2008
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/Cargill-Builds-Bio-Based-Polyol-Plant_12882.html
July 1, 2008
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/Lonza-Secures-Stem-Cell-Drug-Supply-Deal-Will-Build-Plant-at-Walkersville-MD_12796.html
June 23, 2008
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/Wacker-Signs-Licensing-Deal-with-Xoma_12613.html
June 16, 2008
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/Crucell-and-DSM-Hit-Pharmaceutical-Technology-Milestone_12502.html
May 27, 2008
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/Wackers-Secretion-Technology-Studied_12118.html
May 27, 2008
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/Biofilms-R-and-D-Building-a-Case-Against-Clever-Bacteria_12128.html
May 20, 2008
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/Catalent-to-More-than-Double-U-S-Bioreactor-Capacity_11989.html
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