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Kemira and VTT to Establish Water Treatment Research Center

March 9, 2010 | Kerri Walsh

 Kemira and The Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) will establish a Center of Water Efficiency Excellence in Finland, which will focus on developing new technology to enhance water usage and recycling. The center's goal is to "develop unique...


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Lonza Forms Alliance and Acquires Stake in U.S. Drug Discovery Tech Firm

Lonza says it has signed an agreement with drug discovery technology company Odyssey Thera (San Ramon, CA) to make Odyssey Thera’s proprietary protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) technology, and Odyssey Thera has granted to Lonza an option to...

Bayer MaterialScience Acquires Artificial Muscle Inc., an Electroactive Polymers Business

Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) has acquired Artificial Muscle Inc., (AMI; Sunnyvale, CA), a leader in the field of electroactive polymers for the consumer electronics industry. Financial details were not disclosed. AMI polymers are used in the development...

Researchers Find Greener Way to Process PET Fibers

Researchers at the University of Torino in Italy found that treating polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fibers with a low-temperature, partially ionized gas increased the fibers' affinity for water....

IBM, Stanford Report Organocatalyst Breakthrough

Discovery could have implications in the production of biodegradeable plastics and recycling of common PET, the researchers say....

SusChem Builds Relations with Downstream Sectors on Sustainable Production

The European chemical industry is building closer relations with downstream sectors on sustainability issues, says the European Union’s (EU) Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem), which hosted a meeting on sustainable technologies...

Wacker Opens New Biologics Facility at Jena

Wacker Chemie has opened a new production facility for pharmaceutical proteins at its Jena, Germany site. The plant is part of Wacker's program to enlarge its biotech operations. The expansion, together with the a new building for process development and...

Total to Reconfigure Dunkirk Refinery Site; Biofuel Cluster Planned

Total has, as expected, presented a plan to its French central works council to cease operations permanently at the company's Dunkirk, France refinery, in response to a decline in petroleum product demand. The refinery, a major producer of propylene, has been...

Arkema Reinforces Research into Bio-Based Acrylics

The Lorraine Regional Council in France has joined forces with Arkema and two local university laboratories to back a research program into bio-based acrylics manufacture. Christian Collette, Arkema's R&D v.p. and Jean-Pierre Masseret, president of the...

DuPont Developing Macroalgae-to-Isobutanol Process

DuPont and Bio Architecture Lab will jointly focus on improving domestic macroalgae aquaculture; converting macroalgae to bio-available sugars; converting those sugars to isobutanol; and economic and environmental optimization of the production process....

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