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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...

Power Drive: Chemical Sector to Benefit from Fragmentation of Energy Supply through 2060

Automotive batteries, biofuels, and solar energy, are three renewable energy segments that can provide significant opportunities for the chemicals sector through 2060, according to a new report by Ingo Schröter, principal for consulting firm A.T...

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...

Dow AgroSciences Expands Research Capacity

Dow AgroSciences, a Dow Chemical subsidiary, says it will invest about $340 million in a multi-year expansion of its global headquarters at Indianapolis, IN, and will add more than...

Cefic Selects U.S. University to Develop HazChem Tests

The University of North Texas (UNT; DentonTX) has been awarded grants totaling $120,000 to develop toxicology tests relating to the aquatic environment, for Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council (Brussels) and the International Life Sciences Institute...

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....

Rhodia Forms Research Alliance with Academic and Government Institutions

The first of the group's projects will develop renewable soft matter ingredients for consumer products in home and personal care markets....

AgChem R&D Costs Up 68% in 10 Years

Costs associated with the discovery, development and registration of new pesticides have increased 68.4% in the past 10 years to an average of €189 million ($255 million), according to a study by Phillips McDougall (Edinburgh, U.K.), an agribusiness...

Cambrex CEO Optimistic for 2010, Seeks New Technologies

Cambrex’s president and CEO Steven M. Klosk tells CW he is optimistic that the business is well placed for growth. Speaking at the recent Informex expo in San Francisco, Klosk said that the company has experienced more requests for projects from small...

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