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November 10, 2011
Protéus (Nîmes, France), a biotech firm recently has been granted a U.S. patent for protein engineering and directed evolution in the manipulation of organisms for...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Biotech-Firm-Proteus-Awarded-U-S-Patent-for-Protein-Engineering_38974.html
November 9, 2011
Mitsubishi Rayon and its Lucite International subsidiary say they are developing alternative sustainable feedstock sources for the production of methyl methacrylate (MMA), using both...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Mitsubishi-Rayon-Developing-Production-Technology-for-Sustainable-MMA_38943.html
November 9, 2011
Nandan Cleantec (Hyderabad, India), a biofuels start-up, today has listed on the AIM (London) stock exchange. The company has raised £16.1 million ($25.6 million) in the listing...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Biofuel-Company-Lists-on-U-K-Stock-Exchange_38946.html
November 7, 2011
A team of researchers at MIT have developed a novel catalyst which liberates oxygen from water at a rate at least 10 times that of existing catalysts in a so called Oxygen Evolution...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/MIT-Researchers-Radically-Improve-Performance-of-Catalyst-for-Splitting-Oxygen-from-Water_38897.html
November 4, 2011
Ron Gerard, Huntsman's corporate sustainability officer tells CW this week that Huntsman is reorienting its R&D toward sustainable chemistries. The company unveiled a series...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-Innovation-News-Round-up-Nov-4_38882.html
November 4, 2011
Thomas: Plastics from CO2. Lohec: Pragmatic approach. Van Beurden: Big in biofuel. Hawkins: Collaboration is key. Leading chemical makers continue to save costs through...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Sustainability-Focus-Shifts-from-Cost-Reduction-to-Profit-Optimization_38616.html
November 4, 2011
Amyris, an Emeryville, CA-based producer of renewable chemicals, has acquired Draths (Lansing, MI), Amyris CEO John Melo told investors during a recent conference call. Draths has...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Amyris-Acquires-Draths_38821.html
November 4, 2011
Rhodia, the Ecole Normale Superieure (Lyon, France), and the East China Normal University (Shanghai) have officially opened the Laboratory of Eco-efficient Products and Processes...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Rhodia-Opens-Sustainable-Chemistry-R-and-D-Center-in-China_38876.html
November 4, 2011
Huntsman increasingly is focusing its R&D activities on the development of products designed in response to challenges such as higher energy prices and scarcer water resources...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Huntsman-Intensifies-R-and-D-Focus-on-Sustainability_38823.html
November 1, 2011
Synthetic biology firm Amyris (Emeryville, CA) says it has signed a deal with Method Products, a provider of  environmentally-friendly home and personal care products to big box...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Amyris-Signs-Joint-Development-Deal-With-Method-Products_38687.html
October 31, 2011
For the third consecutive year, Chemical Week teamed up with CSC (Falls Church, VA), a global business solutions provider, to survey executives on sustainability and regulatory...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Survey-Firms-Focus-on-Energy-Efficiency-and-Cost-Reduction_38614.html
October 28, 2011
Earnings season dominated news in specialty chemicals this week. Higher prices helped drive up third-quarter earnings in paints and coatings, despite some end market weakness and...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Specialties-Snapshot-Oct-24-28_38697.html
October 26, 2011
Cobalt Technologies (Mountain View, CA), a company commercializing biobased n-butanol as a renewable chemical and fuel, says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Rhodia to...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Rhodia-and-Cobalt-Planning-n-Butanol-Biorefineries-in-Latin-America-Updated_38412.html
October 24, 2011
For the third consecutive year, Chemical Week teamed up with CSC (Falls Church, VA), a global business solutions provider, to survey executives on sustainability and regulatory...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Survey-Firms-Focus-on-Energy-Efficiency-and-Cost-Reduction_38506.html
October 24, 2011
The European Commission, after years of discussion, has today published and adopted an official definition of a nanomaterial. Cefic has voiced concerns that it is too broad and could...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/Industry-Fears-New-EU-Nanomaterial-Definition-is-Too-Broad-update_38386.html
October 21, 2011
This Week on CW:   As earnings season gathered steam reports were, once again, mixed. AkzoNobel reported net income down 32% year-on-year, to 217 million ($301 million), as the...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-Oct-21_38475.html
October 21, 2011
Molycorp’s (Greenwood Village, CO) rare earths processing facility in Mountain Pass, CA will reach production by the end of the third-quarter of 2012, three months ahead of...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Molycorp-to-Accelerate-Start-up-of-Rare-Earths-Facility_38439.html
October 19, 2011
Crop fungal infection Koppert Biological Systems (Berkel en Rodenrijs, the Netherlands), a leader in biological crop protection, says it has been granted exclusive rights to Bayer...
http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/sustainability/Bayer-CropScience-Signs-Biofungicide-Deal-With-Koppert_38395.html
October 19, 2011
Europe needs to step up its investment in biotech R&D and establish supportive regulatory policies if it is to keep pace with the U.S. in the biotech sector, says Stephan Tanda...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/EU-Trails-U-S-on-Biotech-R-and-D-Spending-Capability-is-Building_38404.html
October 18, 2011
Biocitech SAS (Paris), the operator of a life sciences technology park in Paris, is part of a group of organizations that is setting up Bondy Innovation, a new biotech incubator...
http://www.chemweek.com/sustainability/New-Biotech-Incubator-to-Emerge-in-Paris_38384.html
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