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January 14, 2011
This Week on CW: DuPont has agreed to acquire Danish enzymes and food ingredients maker Danisco for $6.3 billion, enhancing the company’s footprint in those areas. Did a Solvay...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Jan-14_32160.html January 14, 2011
DSM BioSolutions, DSM’s microbial fermentation contract manufacturing business, has disclosed that it has secured a contract with BiAqua (Badhoevedorp, the Netherlands) to...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/DSM-Secures-Contract-to-Develop-Water-Decontaminating-Microbes-update_32093.html January 12, 2011
U.S. EPA announced today that it will delay greenhouse gas (GHG) permitting requirements for industries that use biomass a feedstock until 2014. The agency is soliciting input from the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/EPA-to-Delay-Biomass-GHG-Rules_32109.html January 7, 2011
This week in CW: The chemical industry was less energy-efficient in 2009, while GHG emissions fell due to output declines. But companies are generally not taking action. Monsanto swung...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Jan-7_32041.html January 6, 2011
U.S. EPA has issued a final rule requiring the testing of 19 high production volume (HPV) chemicals for health and environmental impacts. "This rule is one of a series of actions...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/EPA-to-Require-Testing-of-19-Chemicals_31887.html January 6, 2011
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT (Oberhausen, Germany) say they are testing how plastics can be given new characteristics...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/CO2-Impregnation-Creates-New-Characteristics-in-Plastics_31930.html January 5, 2011
The site will include a 8 million gallon/year biofuel unit powered by renewable biomass, including yard, vegetative, wood, and municipal waste....http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Ineos-Wins-USDA-Grant-for-Florida-Biorefinery_31905.html January 4, 2011
Vermont Law School (VLS; South Royalton, VT) has published a ‘Top 10 Environmental Watch List’ for U.S. environmental laws and policies that it predicts will play out in...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Top-10-Watch-List-For-Environmental-Law-in-2011_31888.html December 28, 2010
The Chinese Commerce Ministry is cutting export quotas for rare earths minerals by about 11% for the first half of 2011, it announced today. China supplies more than 95% of the world's...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/China-Reduces-Rare-Earths-Export-Quota_31827.html December 23, 2010
U.S. EPA has reached a settlement with several states, local governments and environmental groups regarding the timeline for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions regulation of refineries and...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/EPA-Clarifies-Refinery-GHG-Rules_31782.html December 22, 2010
The European Commission has issued draft legislation to strengthen the rules on the control of major accidents involving hazardous chemicals. Proposed changes to the so-called Seveso...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/EU-Rolls-Out-Plans-to-Strengthen-Plant-Safety-Legislation_31739.html December 21, 2010
Biomaterials start-up Elevance has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round, the company announced today. The funding round is the company's third. Naxos Capital partners led...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Elevance-Raises-$100-Million-in-Funding-Round_31742.html December 20, 2010
China’s chemical industry association the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation (CPCIF) has joined the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) as an...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Dows-Andrew-Liveris-Welcomes-China-as-ICCA-Member_31698.html December 20, 2010
A report by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE; Washington) says the country could well face shortages of rare earth materials within the next fifteen years. Rare earth materials, or...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/DOE-Report-Details-Possible-Rare-Earths-Shortages_31597.html December 20, 2010
Enzymes technology firm Novozymes has agreed to buy Merck KGaA’s (Darmstadt, Germany) Crop BioScience business for $275 million. The firm’s say they expect to complete the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Novozymes-to-Buy-Merck-KGaAs-Crop-BioScience-Business-for-$275-Million_31716.html December 17, 2010
This Week on CW: In another private equity backed M&A deal, YuleCatto is buying PolymerLatex from TowerBrook Capital Partners for $585.7 million. Nearly 200 nations signed the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Dec-17_31715.html December 16, 2010
The jv will use sugarcane as feedstock and Amyris' yeast platform to produce farnesene, which will then be converted to high-end base oils....http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Amyris-Cosan-Form-Base-Oils-JV_31617.html December 16, 2010
Fine chemicals firm Novasep (Pompey, France), and Daniso (Copenhagen), say they have jointly developed a “cost-effective, environmentally friendly process” to produce...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Novasep-and-Danisco-Develop-Process-for-Betaine-from-Bioethanol_31615.html December 16, 2010
There is not yet a global deal that will protect the world from catastrophic climate change, but the so called Cancun Agreements secured by parties to the UN climate summit in Mexico...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Progress-on-UN-Climate-Agreement-Going-Chemical-Industrys-Way-update-2_31595.html December 15, 2010
The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI; San Diego, CA) announced in May of this year that it had, for the first time in scientific history, created a new, living microorganism in a...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Synthetic-Biology-Injecting-New-Life-into-the-Chemical-Industry_31497.html |
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