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February 8, 2012
AkzoNobel has unveiled a five-year research partnership with the University of Manchester (Manchester, U.K.) to investigate the science of anti-corrosion coatings. When the research...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/AkzoNobel-Steps-up-Research-into-Anticorrosion-Coatings_41057.html February 8, 2012
Sabic Innovative Plastics (Sabic-IP; Pittsfield, MA) says it has opened a new pilot facility at Mt. Vernon, IN for chemistry and process development for its high performance polymers...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Sabic-IP-Opens-Polymer-Pilot-Facility-at-Mt-Vernon-IN_41087.html February 1, 2012
Carbon Sciences (Santa Barbara, CA), a technology start-up company, says it is on track to demonstrate the use of a proprietary steam reforming catalyst for converting natural gas into...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Carbon-Sciences-to-Demonstrate-Novel-Syngas-Catalyst-update_40889.html January 31, 2012
Enzymes group Novozymes says it has created an “exploratory research agreement” with Sea6 Energy (Chennai, India), a start-up biotech firm, to jointly develop an enzymatic...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Novozymes-Collaborates-on-Seaweed-to-Biofuels-Project-in-India_40926.html January 30, 2012
Biotech has been in the news this week with innovation deals and developments including those that emerged at The Biobased Chemicals Summit held in San Diego this past week was the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-Innovation-News-Round-up-Jan-30_40885.html January 26, 2012
Renewable chemicals firm Genomatica (San Diego) says it has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to Beta Renewables’ (Scrivia, Italy) technology to convert biomass to...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Genomatica-Advances-Second-Generation-Biobased-BDO-with-M-and-G_40736.html January 26, 2012
Raising capital, developing an effective market entry strategy, and the ingredients for a successful public launch were the foremost topics of discussion at Biobased Chemicals Summit...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Biobased-Chemicals-Summit-Funding-Available-But-Investors-More-Savvy_40801.html January 25, 2012
Novozymes says it will supply enzymes to cleantech start-up Fiberight (Catonsville, MD) for a $59.5 million retrofit of a Blairstown, IA corn ethanol production unit to...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Novozymes-to-Supply-Enzymes-for-Trash-to-Fuels-Project_40669.html January 25, 2012
Rhodia, a subsidiary of Solvay; and Avantium (Amsterdam) say they have agreed on the joint development of a range of new bio-based polyamides, which can be used in a variety of...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Rhodia-and-Avantium-to-Codevelop-Bio-Based-Polyamides_40722.html January 25, 2012
Showa Denko says it has selected Myriant (Quincy, MA) to supply biobased succinic acid for its polybutylene succinate (PBS) production. The deal endorses Myriant’s low-cost...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Showa-Denko-Chooses-Myriant-to-Supply-Succinic-Acid-for-PBS-Efforts_40755.html January 25, 2012
Albemarle has installed a production train for finished polyolefin catalysts, which completes the expansion of its Process Development Center at Baton Rouge, LA. “The new...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Albemarle-Adds-Polyolefin-Catalysts-at-Baton-Rouge_40748.html January 20, 2012
The development of new technologies in the biomaterials space arguably is moving ahead more rapidly than any other sector in the chemicals industry. I say arguably because the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-Innovation-News-Round-up-Jan-20_40665.html January 19, 2012
BASF and Phillips (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) say they achieved a breakthrough in the development of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology that will allow the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/BASF-and-Phillips-Develop-OLED-Car-Lighting-Technology_40583.html January 17, 2012
ACAL Energy (Runcorn, U.K.), a fuel cell technology company, has hired Endeavour Speciality Chemicals (Daventry, U.K.) to scale up a process for making a novel, liquid, non-precious...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Endeavour-Develops-Process-for-Groundbreaking-Liquid-Cathode-Fuel-Cell_40429.html January 17, 2012
Dow Corning says it has completed a new R&D facility at Seneffe, Belgium. The new facility, dubbed Solar Energy Exploration and Development (SEED) center, includes two buildings: a...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Dow-Corning-Completes-New-R-and-D-Facility-in-Belgium_40517.html January 16, 2012
This past week has seen a raft of alternative energy technology developments in both the battery and fuel cell fields. BASF made another step forward in its quest to be the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-Innovation-Round-up-Jan-13_40452.html January 13, 2012
Switchable Solutions, a green solvents firm, has hired Eric Kelusky, a former Nova Chemicals technology executive, the company says. The firm says it expects to complete pre-pilot...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Green-Solvents-Firm-Hires-Former-Nova-Executive_40413.html January 12, 2012
BASF researchers work to advance battery technology. BASF says it has acquired an undisclosed equity stake in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery developer Scion Power (Tucson, AZ) for $50...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/BASF-Invests-$50-Million-in-Battery-Developer_40408.html January 11, 2012
A group of U.S. scientists say they have successfully used solid materials based on fumed silica impregnated with polyethylenimine (PEI), a readily available and inexpensive polymeric...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/Research-Polymer-based-System-Breaks-Records-for-Capture-of-CO2_40304.html January 10, 2012
Banholzer: Spending more in 2011. Thomas: Using CO2 as raw material. Bock: Strong research culture. Investment among the top 50 largest chemicals R&D spenders increased 7.3%...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/r_and_d/R-and-D-Spending-Goes-Up_39832.html |
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