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AkzoNobel Steps up Research into Anticorrosion Coatings

11:03 AM MST | February 8, 2012 | Alex Scott

AkzoNobel has unveiled a five-year research partnership with the University of Manchester (Manchester, U.K.) to investigate the science of anti-corrosion coatings. When the research begins April 1 of this year it will be the world’s largest academic...

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Sabic-IP Opens Polymer Pilot Facility at Mt. Vernon, IN

Sabic Innovative Plastics (Sabic-IP; Pittsfield, MA) says it has opened a new pilot facility at Mt. Vernon, IN for chemistry and process development for its high performance polymers (HPP) sold under the trade name Ultem, Siltem and Extem. The facility will...

Carbon Sciences to Demonstrate Novel Syngas Catalyst (update)

Carbon Sciences (Santa Barbara, CA), a technology start-up company, says it is on track to demonstrate the use of a proprietary steam reforming catalyst for converting natural gas into synthetic gas (syngas) by year end. The catalyst features nickel and...

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...

Genomatica Advances Second-Generation Biobased BDO with M&G

Renewable chemicals firm Genomatica (San Diego) says it has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to Beta Renewables’ (Scrivia, Italy) technology to convert biomass to 1,4-butanediol (BDO), and the two firms plan to begin demonstration-scale production...

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...

Novozymes to Supply Enzymes for Trash-to-Fuels Project

Novozymes says it will supply enzymes to cleantech start-up Fiberight (Catonsville, MD) for a $59.5 million retrofit of a Blairstown, IA corn ethanol production unit to Fiberight’s trash-to-fuels...

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...

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