BIOTECH

Monsanto Ends GM Seed Efforts in France

12:29 PM MST | February 2, 2012 | Rebecca Coons

Monsanto says it will not sell its MON810 maize seed in France in 2012 or the foreseeable future, citing a lack of support among farmers and government officials for genetically modified (GM) traits. The company has not sold the seed since spring of 2007, and...

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Novozymes Collaborates on Seaweed-to-Biofuels Project in India

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 process for converting seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then...

Chemical Industry Weekly Innovation News Round-up, Jan. 30

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 source of much discussion and news surrounding technology and deal making in...

Biobased Chemicals Summit: Funding Available, But Investors More Savvy

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, held in San Diego last week. Overall sentiment was positive, with a number...

Study: Biofuels Could Replace 50% of Gasoline by 2030

Advanced biofuels are set to become an important factor in the global economy and could replace more than 50% of the world's gasoline demand in 2030, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report dubbed "Moving towards a...

U.K. Spin-out Firm to Generate BioButanol from Whiskey Byproduct

Celtic Renewables (Edinburgh, U.K.), a biotech company developing a process for converting whiskey byproducts into biobutanol and other biochemicals, has been launched yesterday. The start-up company is a spin out from Napier University (Edinburgh). The...

Rhodia and Avantium to Codevelop Bio-Based Polyamides

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 applications. This new agreement expands and completes the existing partnership in...

Showa Denko Chooses Myriant to Supply Succinic Acid for PBS Efforts

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, feedstock-flexible technology platform, Myriant says. Financial terms were not...

Novamont, Genomatica form Joint Venture for European BioBDO Production

Novamont (Novara, Italy) and Genomatica (San Diego, CA) say they have signed a definitive agreement establishing a joint venture between the two companies. Novamont will have a majority of equity in the new jv. The companies' previously...

Enzymicals and Herbrand Team Up for Biotechnological Production of APIs

Enzymicals (Greifswald, Germany), a company that specializes in the enzymatic production of fine and specialty chemicals and the production of biocatalysts, says that it will cooperate with Herbrand PharmaChemicals (Gengenbach, Germany) for the...

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