ENVIROTECH

Chemical Industry Weekly News Round-Up, July 30

This Week on CW: The trend of strong second-quarter earnings continued this week. BASF's earnings rose 30% on demand increases, as DuPont's income shot up 92%. Ineos's EBITDA rose, while Reliance's profits saw a considerable jump. In Japan, Mitsui and...

Genetically Modified Maize Gains EU Import Approval

DuPont says the European Commission has approved imports into the EU of food and feed products containing Herculex maize, a stacked trait corn jointly developed by DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred business and Dow Chemical....

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Environment

BASF, Inpex, JGC to Jointly Test CCS Technology in Japan

BASF, energy firm Inpex (Tokyo), and engineering firm JGC (Yokohama, Japan) say they have jointly entered into an agreement to carry out demonstration tests on the effectiveness of a novel carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture and recover CO2...

Regulatory

House Hears Testimony on Changes to TSCA Bill

Industry representatives today asked lawmakers to consider further changes to the Democrat-sponsored bill to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), saying it would stifle innovation and create a safety standard that is nearly impossible to meet...

R&D

Spider Silk Reproduced from Bacteria

Scientists have pieced together a spider silk gene and used it to express spider silk inside E.coli bacteria. The protein was tested and compared to spider silk and very few differences were found. Sang Yup Lee from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and...

Innovation

Lonza to Supply Commercial Volumes of Antibody Drug

Lonza has disclosed that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Genmab’s antibody drug Arzerra, for treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), will be manufactured by Lonza. Arzerra, also known as ofatumumab, is a monoclonal antibody. The drug recently has been...