My apologies for the late weekly news roundup as I am trying to
recuperate from an exhausting (but still fun!) trip in California.
Coming up in future event coverage is the 100th year meeting of the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) in Orlando, Florida. Stay tune for that starting May 4-6. For now here are last week's roundup:
Green pharma JV
SiGNa Chemistry, a developer of stabilized reactive metals for safer, more efficient industrial chemistry formed a partnership with Pacific World Discovery, a pre-clinical chemistry service provider. The collaboration will allow both companies to better serve customers across key areas such as fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
New enzyme contract
Verdezyne, a privately-held synthetic biology company developing processes for the industrial chemicals and fuel markets signed a deal with Novozymes where Verdezyne will optimize selected genes that encode industrial enzymes. These enzymes will then be manufactured in microbial systems.
Coming up in future event coverage is the 100th year meeting of the American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) in Orlando, Florida. Stay tune for that starting May 4-6. For now here are last week's roundup:
Green pharma JV
SiGNa Chemistry, a developer of stabilized reactive metals for safer, more efficient industrial chemistry formed a partnership with Pacific World Discovery, a pre-clinical chemistry service provider. The collaboration will allow both companies to better serve customers across key areas such as fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
New enzyme contract
Verdezyne, a privately-held synthetic biology company developing processes for the industrial chemicals and fuel markets signed a deal with Novozymes where Verdezyne will optimize selected genes that encode industrial enzymes. These enzymes will then be manufactured in microbial systems.
US army uses water-based paints
The Michigan Army National Guard is repainting its facility and equipments with water-based Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) paints. The switch to water-based CARC paints is said to significantly reduces the facility's hazardous waste stream and disposal costs for painting operations.
Oil company in eco-crimes
Texas Oil and Gathering, its owner John Kessel and its operations manager Edgar Pettijohn pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Houston to criminal violations related to the disposal of refinery wastes at an underground injection well in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Infrastructure needed for renewable goals
The U.S. must increase incentives for a wide variety of biofuels infrastructure investments if the nation is to meet federal renewable fuels goals, according to a new report by the Biofuels Infrastructure Task Force of the National Commission on Energy Policy.
And in ICIS news (requires subscription):
The state of Michigan will provide $543.5m (€407.6m) in tax credits to support plans by four companies - including a Dow Chemical joint venture - to build lithium-ion battery plants.
US environmental groups expect the US Environment Protection Agency to soon declare carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a danger to public health and welfare and thus subject to federal regulations.
Novozymes has teamed up with China's COFCO and Sinopec to develop commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production in China.
The Michigan Army National Guard is repainting its facility and equipments with water-based Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC) paints. The switch to water-based CARC paints is said to significantly reduces the facility's hazardous waste stream and disposal costs for painting operations.
Oil company in eco-crimes
Texas Oil and Gathering, its owner John Kessel and its operations manager Edgar Pettijohn pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Houston to criminal violations related to the disposal of refinery wastes at an underground injection well in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Infrastructure needed for renewable goals
The U.S. must increase incentives for a wide variety of biofuels infrastructure investments if the nation is to meet federal renewable fuels goals, according to a new report by the Biofuels Infrastructure Task Force of the National Commission on Energy Policy.
And in ICIS news (requires subscription):
The state of Michigan will provide $543.5m (€407.6m) in tax credits to support plans by four companies - including a Dow Chemical joint venture - to build lithium-ion battery plants.
US environmental groups expect the US Environment Protection Agency to soon declare carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a danger to public health and welfare and thus subject to federal regulations.
Novozymes has teamed up with China's COFCO and Sinopec to develop commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol production in China.
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