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Chemical Management

Bioworks, Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited | June 08, 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks, Inc. announced today the signing of a collaboration agreement with Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., one of Japan's leading chemical companies. Ginkgo is building the industry's best horizontal platform for cell programming to serve customers from various sectors looking to develop better products. Sumitomo Chemical intends to use Ginkgo's long-standing expertise in organism engineering to significantly improve the efficiency and sustainability of an essential bio-based c...

Cen | September 17, 2020

CEFIC, Europe’s leading chemical industry association, is calling on the European Commission to allocate a share of Europe’s proposed $875 billion COVID-19 Green Recovery fund to the chemical industry to help it recover from the pandemic and simultaneously transform itself into a more environmentally sustainable business. Over the next few years, the Commission plans to make about $455 billion in recovery funds available in the form of grants and another $420 billion as loans....

Theintercept | June 07, 2020

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s shelter-in-place orders went into effect, the governor quietly signed into law the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the law created new felony penalties for protest actions targeting oil and gas facilities, as the state continues to confront opposition to two massive natural gas pipelines designed to cut through delicate forests, streams, and farmland. If construction is completed, the Mountain Valley and Atl...

PRNewswire | January 16, 2020

Italmatch Chemicals, a leading global specialty chemical group focused on the production and marketing of performance additives for water & process treatment, oil & gas, industrial lubricants and plastics, announces that has acquired from Israel Chemicals (ICL) the RecoPhos Project Technology, including all licenses, IP, know-how and assets related to it. The aim is to further develop and complete a sustainable, highly efficient and economical viable process to recover phosphorus from al...