Malvern Instruments has set up a new biopharmaceutical applications laboratory in the heart of San Diego’s biotechnology cluster.
The laboratory has been developed in partnership with Sevion Therapeutics, a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company that develops next-generation biologics. Sevion Therapeutics will host the laboratory for which Malvern will provide analytical instrumentation, training and continuing support.
Plant opens
German chemical group BASF has opened a new production plant for concrete admixtures in Lagos, Nigeria, BASF’s first production plant in western Africa looking into the production of stronger and more durable concrete admixtures. For more than 20 years, BASF has been selling construction chemicals in the western African market.
We’ll drink to that
Researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy have developed a biorefinery model that would produce polyphenols, fatty acids, biopolymers, and biomethane from the skins and seeds left over from wine production. The country produces about five million metric tons of the feedstock annually that currently has little value and the new model combines supercritical carbon dioxide with anaerobic digestion, microbial treatment, and anaerobic fermentation to produce the chemical products.
