Researchers Decode Energy Crop Genomes

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• Asian Firms Expand Solar Polysilicon
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• LyondellBasell Industries is withdrawing from business with firms in Iran, Syria, and Sudan because of U.S. sanctions against those countries...
• DuPont Makes More Solar Panel Polymer
• DuPont has expanded a plant in Fayetteville, N.C., that makes polyvinyl fluoride, a raw material for its Tedlar brand film...
• Arch Chemicals Plans R&D Consolidation
• Arch Chemicals is consolidating much of its U.S. research effort at a site in Alpharetta, Ga., that was part of the company’s 2008 acquisition of the water treatment chemicals maker Advantis Technologies...
• Nalco Buys Enhanced Oil Recovery Firm
• Nalco has acquired Casper, Wyo.-based Fabrication Technologies, a supplier of enhanced oil recovery equipment and services...
• BASF Will Sell Starch Business
• BASF has signed an agreement to sell its European starch business, including a cationic reagent division, to Chemigate...
• Coal-To-Plastics Plant Opens In China
• China Shenhua Coal to Liquid & Chemical Baotou Coal Chemical Co., part of the Chinese coal giant Shenhua Group, has started up China’s first polypropylene plant to use feedstocks derived from coal...
• Petrobras Inks Biofuels Partnership With KL Energy
• Under a joint development agreement, the U.S. arm of Brazilian energy firm Petrobras will optimize KL Energy’s cellulosic ethanol process to use sugarcane bagasse...
• Asahi Builds Medical Materials R&D Center
• Asahi Kasei will spend $19 million to build an R&D center for medical materials. To be located in Miyazaki, Japan...
• Roche Signs Peptide Pact With Aileron
• Roche and Cambridge, Mass.-based Aileron Therapeutics will jointly develop a new class of stapled-peptide drugs against five Roche disease targets...
• … And Will Acquire Diagnostics Company
• Roche is buying BioImagene, a digital pathology technology vendor, for approximately $100 million...
• Merck Matches Gates On Aid For Botswana
• Merck & Co. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are committing a total of $60 million to support Botswana’s African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP)...
• Researchers Decode Energy Crop Genomes
• Independent programs have sequenced the genomes of two oilseed crops...
• Business Roundup
• Shell, AWB, Dorf Ketal, Dow Corning, Tata Chemicals, Cosan, ChemAxon, Albany Molecular...

Topics Covered

oilseeds, castor bean, jatropha