DuPont says it plans to expand the DuPont Knowledge Center at Hyderabad, India. The company will add research & development (R&D) capabilities to support local customer needs for businesses...
ZeaChem (Lakewood, CO), a bioprocessing firm, says it has successfully tested a fermentation process for manufacturing acetic acid from renewable biomass to a scale of 5,000 liters, up from laboratory scale of 0.5 liters. The production of acetic acid is the...
Research services company Peakdale Molecular (Chapel-en-le-Frith, U.K.) says it has entered into a research collaboration agreement with Pfizer. Peakdale, which provides research services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries...
The company aims to spend €1.38 billion this year....
Wacker Chemie says it has finished the expansion of its Suwon Technical Center in South Korea. The investment is intended to boost the company’s local research and development competency in the...
Research chemists Gerard Parkin and Aaron Sattler from Columbia University (NY) say they have developed an organic compound containing tungsten that is able to break strong carbon-carbon bonds. The unusual activity of the compound could lead to new methods for...
Bioengineer Trygve Brautaset, a researcher at Sintef Group (Trondheim, Norway), Scandinavia’s largest independent research organisation, has been awarded NK11 million ($1.9 million) to develop a low-cost process for manufacturing lysine from methanol...
BASF Plant Science (Limburgerhof, Germany) and KWS SAAT (Einbeck, Germany) have announced collaboration in plant biotechnology whose aim is to develop sugar beet varieties with higher sugar and energy yields as well as greater drought tolerance. The...
Axens (Paris), a petrochemicals technology provider, and Headwaters (South Jordan, UT), a materials technology firm, say they have created a joint venture company Alliance DCL, to provide solutions for producing clean transport fuels via direct coal...
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