PPG Renews Zoo Commitment

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• Sunoco Sale Completes Exit From Chemicals
• Sunoco has agreed to sell its Haverhill, Ohio, phenol plant to Goradia Capital...
• Arkema And CJ Pick Methionine Site
• Arkema and CJ Cheil-Jedang have chosen a site in Kerteh, Malaysia, to build their previously announced complex for a biobased version of...
• PPG Renews Zoo Commitment
• PPG will provide a grant of $6.9 million to the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium over the next 10 years...
• Linde Receives Energy Department Grant
• The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded German industrial gas firm Linde $15 million for research into carbon capture technologies...
• AstraZeneca, Heptares Huddle On GPCR
• AstraZeneca and Heptares have launched a four-year collaboration focused on discovery and development of therapies targeting...
• Chrysler, ZeaChem To Collaborate
• Biofuel firm ZeaChem has signed a memorandum of understanding with the automaker Chrysler to speed up the development of cellulosic ethanol...
• Momentive Adds Proppant Capacity
• Momentive Specialty Chemicals will expand capacity for resin-coated proppants, used in hydraulic fracturing in the oil and gas industry...
• U.S. Imposes Sanctions On Belarusian Firms
• The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on four Belarusian firms owned by Belneftekhim Concern, which the U.S. Department of Treasury says...
• Ampac Fine Chemicals Signs Biodefense Deal
• Ampac Fine Chemicals (AFC)has finalized an agreement with Chimerix to advance commercial-scale manufacturing of the active ingredient in Chimerix’ CMX001...
• Polymer Enables Synthetic Trachea
• A synthetic trachea based on a composite of POSS and PCU—polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and poly(carbonate-urea) urethane...
• Swedish Regulators Seek Drug Standards
• Sweden’s Medical Products Agency(MPA) is calling for stronger environmental standards for the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals that are sold in Europe...
• Roche Invests In Canadian Site
• Roche will spend more than $190 million over the next five years on a pharmaceutical development center in Mississauga, Ontario...
• Cytos Biotech Slashes Staff, Research
• Cytos Biotechnology will reduce its workforce from 82 to about 10, and it is abandoning work on early-stage projects to focus its resources on CYT003-QbG10...
• Business Roundup
• BASF, Dow Chemical, Evonik Industries, Orica’s, GE Healthcare, Amyris, Pfizer and Qiagen, Human Genome Sciences...

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