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January 5, 2011
Virent Energy Systems (Madison, WI) and HCL CleanTech (Oxford, NC) say they have secured $900,000 in public funding for a project to demonstrate a process for converting cellulosic...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Virent-HCL-Secure-Funding-for-Pine-Tree-Sugars-to-Biomaterials-Project_31901.html January 5, 2011
Biotech start-up Qteros (Marlborough, MA) says it has successfully closed a deal to raise $22 million as part of its Series C round of financing. Qteros has developed Consolidated...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Qteros-Secures-$22-Million-of-Financing-to-Accelerate-Cellulosic-Ethanol-Program_31903.html January 5, 2011
Molycorp (Greenwood Village, CO) says it has entered into an agreement with Hitachi Metals (Tokyo) to form joint ventures to produce neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloys and magnets in the U.S....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Molycorp-Hitachi-Metals-Sign-Rare-Earth-Production-Deal_31779.html December 30, 2010
Gazprombank (Moscow) has agreed to sell a 50% stake in Sibur, Russia’s largest petrochemical company to Miracle, a company controlled by Leonid V. Mikhelson, CEO of Novatek...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Russian-Billionaire-Buys-50-percent-Stake-in-Sibur_31847.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/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/China-Reduces-Rare-Earths-Export-Quota_31827.html December 27, 2010
Saudi Aramco and China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), the parent company of PetroChina, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand crude oil trade and strengthen cooperation on refinery and petrochemical projects....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Aramco-CNPC-Sign-Agreement-to-Expand-Oil-Trade-Cooperate-in-Petchems_31798.html December 27, 2010
Global fertilizer consumption is expected to grow by 4.7% in the 2010-2011 growing season, driven by rising crop prices and the improving economy, according to the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA; Paris). By 2011-2012, nutrient application rates are expected to fully recover to the levels seen prior to the economic crisis, IFA says....http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/IFA-Fertilizer-Demand-Continues-to-Recover-Aggressive-Capacity-Expansions-Underway_31795.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/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/DOE-Report-Details-Possible-Rare-Earths-Shortages_31597.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/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Dec-17_31715.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/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/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/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/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/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Synthetic-Biology-Injecting-New-Life-into-the-Chemical-Industry_31497.html December 15, 2010
Lenzing says it will invest a total of €285 million ($380 million) to expand its fibers capacity in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. The investments will increase Lenzing’s...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Lenzing-to-Increase-Global-Fibers-Capacity_31594.html December 10, 2010
By Jim Stoppert CEO of Rivertop Renewables (Missoula, MT) Universally, companies in the green chemistry space are seeking to mitigate the negative economic and environmental...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Blog-Drop-in-Versus-Novel-Chemicals_31339.html November 29, 2010
Süd-Chemie says it has formed an alliance with the Technical University of Munich (TUM; Munich) to cooperate on research in the field of catalysis. Süd-Chemie will invest...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Sud-Chemie-Invests-$31-Million-in-Catalyst-R-and-D-Alliance_31213.html November 26, 2010
Huntsman and its partners say that there is an increasingly bright future for the development and use of new products derived from biomaterials, and that activities in this field are...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Huntsman-Boosting-Innovation-through-Collaboration_31208.html November 24, 2010
Andre Genton, president/Huntsman Advanced Materials outlines plans for the business at its Technology Exchange Day meeting with academics and industry executives in Basel, Switzerland...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Huntsman-Outlines-Innovation-Plan-video_31183.html November 18, 2010
(scroll down for video of John Shanklin). Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Dow AgroSciences say they have engineered plants that for the first time produce...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Dow-and-DOE-Grow-Plants-with-Industrially-Relevant-Levels-of-Plastics_30905.html November 17, 2010
Halliburton, which was subpoenaed by EPA last week for its refusal to voluntarily disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracking, has launched a new website identifying the chemicals...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Halliburton-Launches-Fracking-Chemicals-Website_30983.html November 12, 2010
This Week on CW: Ashland is selling its distribution business to private equity firm TPG Capital, taking the company closer to its specialties core. Chemtura has exited Chapter 11...http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/energy_and_feedstocks/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-November-12_30940.html |
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