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Bayer CropScience Expands Collaboration with Australian Research Agency

March 18, 2010 | Deepti Ramesh

Bayer CropScience says it is expanding its research collaboration with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO; Clayton South, Australia), Australia’s national research agency, to assess the sustainability of new generation...

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DSM on Track to Commercialize Production of Resins, Adhesives and Coatings from CO2

DSM says it expects to be in a position to announce plans for the commercialization of specific products derived from CO2 feedstocks in the next 12-24 months. “We have sufficient perspective now to say we will continue down this road,” the company...

EU Consortium Begins Biorefinery Development Project

A consortium of 28 companies and research institutes has begun a four-year project to develop an efficient biorefinery system for converting biomass into final chemical products. Named EuroBioRef, the project aims to increase the “economic...

Kemira and VTT to Establish Water Treatment Research Center

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...

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....

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