production of lower-cost renewablepolyethylene terephthalate.

Original Source: Anellotech, 2013. Found onSpecialChem Plastics and Elastomers Formulation, 18 Jan 2013, (Website:http://www.specialchem4polymers.com). OriginalSource: Biomass Magazine, website:http://www.biomassmagazine.com (Jan 2013) © BBIInternational 2013

Anil Bioplus plans Rup 150 crore plantfor enzymes, bio-chemicals

Anil Bioplus Ltd has revealed plans toestablish a greenfield production plantfor enzymes and bio-chemicals, with aninvestment of Rup 150 crore. Work onthe project was set to begin in Nov2012. The new plant, to be located inHalol near Vadodara, India, will includean ultra-tech R&D unit to focus on pureresearch, and application and processdevelopment. It is expected to boost thecompany’s capacities for its existingproduct line and expand the productportfolio with the addition of newenzymes and varieties of gluconates.Anil Bioplus will manufacture hi-techactive pharmaceutical ingredients andspeciality enzymes for the pharma-ceutical and food and beveragesectors. Upon completion of the project,the company expects to generate Rup400 crore in three years. (1 crore=10 M,1 lakh=100,000).

Original Source: Chemical Business (India), Oct 2012,26 (10), 19 (Website: http://www.printsjournals.com/)© Prints India 2012

BASF restructures divisions for success

Germany’s BASF will have one fewerbusiness segments, from six to five,as a result of its restructuring thatgoes into effect 1 Jan 2013. Thechemical company will also bereducing the number of its divisionsfrom 15 to 14. A new division,performance chemicals, will becreated in the renamed functional andsolutions business segment. Thecatalysts, coatings, and constructionchemicals divisions, and BASF’sdownstream plastics, including theexisting performance polymers andpolyurethanes divisions, will beretained under the segment. Thechemicals segment will maintain itsfocus on cultivating the company’sproduction Verbund. It will incorporatea new monomers division and anexpanded petrochemicals division.The unchanged segments are

agricultural solutions; oil and gas; andperformance products, includingactive pharmaceutical ingredients andexcipients activities. Meanwhile,BASF expects to complete at end-2014 a new manufacturing complexfor Elastollan thermoplasticspolyurethanes that it is building at itsLemforde site in Germany. Thecompany is also constructing a new€50 M research building at its base inLudwigshafen and a €150 M mobileemissions catalysts plant in SrodaSlaska, Poland, with startupscheduled for 1Q 2014. Also, BASFhas opened its first InnovationCampus Asia Pacific and new GreaterChina headquarters at its Pudong sitein Shanghai, China.

Original Source: Chemistry and Industry (London),Dec 2012, 76 (12), 6 (Website: http://www.soci.org/)© Society of Chemical Industry 2012

Beta Renewables and Novozymes toform strategic partnership in biofuels

Beta Renewables, a global leader incellulosic biofuels and part of GruppoMossi & Ghisolfi, announced anagreement to jointly market,demonstrate and guarantee cellulosicbiofuel solutions. The partners willoffer customers looking to producebiofuels from agricultural residues,energy crops and other cellulosicfeedstock a combination of Novozymes’Cellic enzymes and Beta Renewables’PROESA engineering and productiontechnology. Beta Renewables willembed Novozymes’ enzymes in thePROESA technology and guaranteebiofuel production costs upon start-upof customers’ cellulosic facilities. Thedeal is unique in offering a combinedsolution that reduces the risk incustomers’ projects while providingcompetitive commercial terms.

Original Source: BioTimes (Novozymes’ Enzyme e-zine), Winter 2012, (Novozymes A/S, Krogshoejvej 36,2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark, tel: +45 44 46 0000, fax:+45 44 46 9999, website: http://www.biotimes.com)© Novozymes 2012

Calysta Energy receives grant

Calysta Energy has secured an NSFSmall Business Innovation Researchgrant that it will use to develop theenzymatic production of modifiedlipids from methane feedstock.

Original Source: Chemical and Engineering News, 21 Jan 2013, 91 (3), 15 (Website: http://www.cen-online.org) © American Chemical Society 2013

Dupont buys renewable chemicaltechnology from Verdezyne

DuPont Industrial Biosciences haspurchased xylose isomerasetechnology from renewable chemicalsfirm Verdezyne. The technologyboosts the speed and yield of fuel andchemicals produced from biomass-derived C5 sugars.

Original Source: Chemical and Engineering News, 24 Dec 2012, 90 (52), 13 (Website: http://www.cen-online.org) © American Chemical Society 2012

JM and DoE to collaborate on biofuels

Johnson Matthey and the Departmentof Energy’s National RenewableEnergy Laboratory will work on a five-year, $7 M collaboration aimed atimproving technology for transformingbiomass to fuels via pyrolysis. Thepartners will develop efficientcatalysts that can producehydrocarbons from pyrolysis vapour.

Original Source: Chemical and Engineering News, 24 Dec 2012, 90 (52), 13 (Website: http://www.cen-online.org) © American Chemical Society 2012

European Investment Bank provides£100 M for JM’s European R&D

Johnson Matthey has secured a £100M loan from the European InvestmentBank to help fund its study intocontrol, process and low-carbontechnologies. The work willsupplement the firm’s research onboth light and heavy duty vehicleemission control and on thedevelopment of catalyst technologiesthat would pass the upcoming stricteremission standards. The research willalso support work in modern platinumgroup metal refining technology and informulating more eco-friendlymaterials for various uses includingglass and electronics.

Original Source: Chemical Business (India), Dec 2012,26 (12), 43 (Website: http://www.printsjournals.com/)© Prints India 2012

Linde and Forest BtL sign licensingagreement for Carbo-V technology

Linde Engineering Dresden GmbHhas signed an agreement with theFinnish Forest BtL Oy for licensing thebiomass gasification technologyCarbo-V, which will be implemented ina new Biomassto-Liquid (BtL) plant inKemi, Northern Finland. The

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