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EIB awards €200-million loan to Repsol for R&D program

10:18 AM MDT | May 20, 2013 | Francinia Protti-Alvarez

The European Investment Bank (EIB; Luxembourg) has granted a €200-million ($256.7 million) loan to Repsol's (Madrid) R&D and innovation program, EIB and Repsol have announced. EIB will be financing various activities under the company’s...


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Canadian consortium builds pilot plant to grow algal biomass using oil sands CO2 emissions

The government of Canada will invest in technology to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in oil sands by converting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into commercial products, the National Research Council Canada (NRC; Ottawa) says. The three-year Algal Carbon...

Finland's UPM and Neste Oil in court dispute over biodiesel patent

Industrial group UPM- Kymmene (Helsinki) has registered a court request with the Helsinki District Court to invalidate Neste Oil's (Espoo, Finland) biodiesel patent, alleging it does not differ from previously patented innovations, UPM tells CW.  UPM...

EU approves state aid to French R&D consortium to develop third-generation biorefineries

The European Commission has approved aid granted by the French government to Picardie Innovation en Végétal Enseignement Rechercher et Techologie (Pivert; Compiègne, France) and Institut d’Excellence en Énergies...

BASF boosts its footprint in enzyme technologies

BASF says it has boosted its presence in the enzyme technology space, via three separate transactions. The company has identified the enzymes business as a key growth area to prioritize. "The acquired technologies are a prerequisite to develop and...

Merck KGaA leads international consortium to develop cobalt-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) is leading a consortium sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bonn) to develop cobalt-based, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) for use in photovoltaic and other indoor and outdoor applications, the...

BASF R&D conference: Chemistry powers energy

The central theme of the latest BASF research conference, held recently in Ludwigshafen, was “Chemistry powers energy: Renewable generation, safe storage, and efficient transport and use,” relying on “chemistry as an enabler.”...

APIC 2013 Day 2: Diversification and new technologies could counter threat from low-cost shale

ASIA'S MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Board members of petrochemical associations of (from l) Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and India. Speakers and delegates attending this year’s Asia Petrochemical Conference (APIC) in Taipei...

Arkema launches production of biobased nylon-10,10

Arkema has launched production of Rilsan T, a biobased nylon-10,10 processed from castor oil, at the company's production facility at Serquigny, France, the company has announced. The new product possesses a high degree of rigidity, in particular when...

New enzyme research could result in less expensive biofuels production

Five researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL; Washington) and a scientist from the Weizmann Institute of Israel (Rehovot, Israel) say they have discovered two approaches using catalytic performance that could render biofuels production...

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