BASF IT Services optimises service provider process at Merck KGaA

08-Jan-2004 - BASF IT Services have installed a new IT system to boost site maintenance for Merck KGaA in Darmstadt. The system is based on an IT-supported standard service provider process and handles assignments from external companies. As well as providing the necessary equipment, BASF IT Services has also ...

Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year Award for the Fine Chemicals Industry is awarded to Degussa

18-Dec-2003 - The 2003 Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year Award for the Fine Chemicals Industry is awarded to Degussa for its L-hydantoinase enzymatic process for single-step production of L-amino acids used in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industry. Prior to hydantoinase technology, non-natural ...

Wayne Mackwood Appointed Business Development Manager for Crompton's Petroleum Additives Grease Market

15-Dec-2003 - Wayne Mackwood has been appointed business development manager for Crompton's Petroleum Additives grease market. In this expanded role, Wayne is responsible for managing the portfolio of new grease products and applications to help ensure the continued dynamic growth of the grease business. ...

LGC and Pharmidex form strategic alliance

12-Dec-2003 - LGC and Pharmidex, the London-based neuroscience research service provider, have formed a strategic alliance that raises the standard for DMPK (Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics) screening services to drug discovery companies. Factors related to DMPK - the science of how molecules are broken ...

BASF: Even stronger focus on profitability and customer benefit

11-Dec-2003 - BASF is adding to its successful strategy. In future, the world's leading chemical company will: - concentrate its capital expenditures even more heavily on its most profitable business areas; - focus its innovations and business models even more closely on the needs of its customers; and - ...

Sigma-Aldrich Deploys Chemical Search Engine Developed by Synthematix,(R) Inc.

Leading Edge Technology Deployed to Power Chemical Structure/Substructure

10-Dec-2003 - RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK and ST. LOUIS, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synthematix, Inc., a provider of chemistry reaction planning tools for synthetic chemists, and Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL), a leading Life Science and High Technology company, announced the deployment of a new leading edge ...

Dionex Wins Prestigious R&D 100 Award

08-Dec-2003 - Dionex Corporation is pleased to announce it received an R&D 100 award as part of R&D Magazine's 41st annual search for the most innovative new products. The award was granted for the Continuously Regenerated Trap Column (CR-TC), which is used in Dionex's breakthrough Reagent-Free(TM) ion ...

DuPont-led Scientists Unveil Key Nanotechnology Discovery with Use of DNA

Sorting Carbon Nanotubes Provides Significant Step in Advancing Nano- Electronics Applications

04-Dec-2003 - A collaborative group of DuPont-led scientists have discovered an innovative way to advance electronics applications through the use of DNA that sorts carbon nanotubes. This research in the emerging field of nanotechnology appears in the current issue of the journal Science, which is published ...

Chemical Diversity Labs, Sienabiotech S.p.A. Enter Research Collaboration

04-Dec-2003 - Chemical Diversity Labs, Inc. (CDL), a leading provider of discovery chemistry services, and Sienabiotech S.p.A. of Siena, Italy, an integrated drug discovery company focused on disorders of the central nervous system, announced today that they have entered into an innovative research ...

Nobel Laureate Hartmut Michel to join Angewandte Chemie Editorial Board

04-Dec-2003 - Nobel Laureate Hartmut Michel (Chemistry, 1988) has accepted the invitation by the board of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) to join Angewandte's editorial board. The editorial board of Angewandte Chemie advises the editors on matters regarding the content and presentation of the journal. Its ...