Oudenaarde, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - Addition to the "Nanofics 120" coatings widely used to make consumer electronics, technical textiles and filtration materials water and oil repellent. The "Nanofics 110" coatings are highly water repellent (water contact angle of 110 degrees according to ASTM D5964) and highly ...
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Enerkem Inc. (http://www.enerkem.com), a waste-to-biofuels and chemical company, is pleased to welcome the first employees to the Enerkem Alberta Biofuels facility in Edmonton. This facility is currently under construction and will be one of the first full-scale advanced biofuels ...
European Crop Protection Association
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - A Humboldt Forum for Food and Agriculture report highlights that if neonicotinoid seed treatments were no longer available, impact on the EU economy could be as great as EUR4.5 billion with a loss of at least 50,000 farm jobs across the EU. Over a 5-year period, the EU could lose up to EUR17 billion and face a significant increase in pest ...
Jababeka, Indonesia (ots/PRNewswire) - L'Oreal invests EUR 100 million in the first LEED certified factory in Indonesia L'Oreal announced today the opening of its largest factory in the world. The 66,000 m2 building is located at the Jababeka Industrial Estate, West Java, Indonesia, around 60 kilometers east of ...
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences - Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (KVA)
Stockholm (ots/PRNewswire) - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) has awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2013 to: Carlo Gatti Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technology, Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISTM) Milan, Italy and MarkSpackman University of Western Australia Crawley, Australia "for developing experimental and theoretical methods to study electron density in crystals, and using them to determine molecular and crystalline ...
Petroleum Technology Research Centre
Regina, Saskatchewan (ots/PRNewswire) - There is a new-look website and new materials online for people wanting to know more about Carbon Capture and Storage technology (CCS). The CCS101.ca website is a one-stop-shop for information on CCS. At CCS101.ca visitors can access the latest knowledge on CCS in Canada and ...
The European Crop Protection Association
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - Solutions to protect farmers and public health Over the next two days, a delegation of over 50 crop protection industry and authority representatives together with farmers from various European countries gather in Sinaia, Romania, for a conference on the safe and sustainable use of pesticides. Each year the conference is organised in one of the countries implementing ECPA's European crop ...
The European Crop Protection Association
Brussels, Belgium (ots/PRNewswire) - Industry Supports EFSA Conclusion on Recent Bee Health Studies ECPA supports scientific research into the field of bee health, but recent research findings of Whitehorn and Henry [1] fails to account for the many factors that impact bee and colony health in real life[2]. These researchers have applied unrealistic pesticide dose levels in many cases and have dosed continuously bees in unrealistic environments over a long period of time ...
The European Crop Protection Association
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Cobham, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Following stories in today's media, Cargill wishes to clarify that the Italian Ministry of Health declared on 28 March 2012 that it was not sorbitol powder but sodium nitrite which caused the unexpected death in Puglia, South Italy on the 24th March 2012. Cargill does not produce or use sodium nitrite at its starches and sweeteners plants. The Italian authorities are now investigating ...
Houston, Texas (ots/PRNewswire) - June 27-28, 2012 at the Renaissance Houston Greenway Plaza Hotel Informex is announcing the revamped and restructured conference program for the 3rd Annual Specialty Chemical Forum being held in Houston, Texas on June 27-28, 2012. As North America's only conference and networking event designed specifically for the specialty chemical ...
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - Industry needs credible actions to stabilise markets and confidence Growth in European chemicals output will be weaker than expected this year and next because of heightened business uncertainty and inventory trimming, industry group Cefic said today. The group's summary forecast of chemicals sector economists predicts year-on-year growth of ...
Columbus, Ohio (ots/PRNewswire) - - World leader in chemistry content partners with leading chemistry software provider to create new technologies to enhance the discovery of chemical patents and more Chemical Abstracts Service [http://www.cas.org ] (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society and the world's authority for chemical information, today announced a ...
London, November 15 (ots/PRNewswire) - Thursday December 8th 2011 - 2pm GMT/ 3pm CET/ 9am EST http://www.fi-stevia.com Fi Conferences announces its first stevia webinar, launched in association with WILD Flavors. This free-to-attend, one-hour event will clarify the new regulations and explore post-approval market opportunities, in addition to addressing ways of overcoming key technical challenges faced in working with ...
Lyon, France, November 7 (ots/PRNewswire) - Bluestar Silicones - a subsidiary of the Bluestar Group - is opening its new Technical Service Laboratory in its Spanish facility of Santa Perpetua (Barcelona). This laboratory will focus its activities on formulating and developing silicone products for the Personal Care industry. "The opening of our new Technical Service ...
Zug (ots) - The Swiss AmVac AG, a biopharmaceutical company located in Zug, has made significant advances in the manufacture and production of its vaccine candidate against RSV over the last few months. This vaccine candidate is based on the new Sendai vector technology for which Max-Planck-Innovations GmbH has acquired the exclusive licence. This technology, which has been developed by Prof. Wolfgang Neubert's ...
Aachen, Germany (ots) - The European Federation of Chapters of the International Association for the Study of pain (EFIC) and the pharmaceutical company Grunenthal awarded the EFIC-Grunenthal Grant to five young European scientists. The grant will provide financial support for their future projects in ...
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany - (ots) - Pieris AG, a bio-pharmaceutical company developing therapeutic products comprising of Anticalins®, a novel proprietary class of human binding proteins, announced today that it has confirmed the functional antagonistic activity of its lead PRS-050 Anticalin® in vivo, supporting the development of superior biotherapeutics ...