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