All Pharma & Bio

Project hopes to produce DNA structures on a larger scale
Added: 21 Feb 2012
Southampton, UK- A team of chemists from the Universities of Southampton and Oxford have been award…

Pilot plant produces biogas from food waste
Added: 20 Feb 2012
Stuttgart, Germany – Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biot…

Shell-eating GM fungus offers low-cost process route to anti-viral drugs
Added: 17 Feb 2012
Vienna – Recent incidents, such as the SARS and Swine flu epidemics, have highlighted the need for …

Ensus still hopeful of reopening Wilton biofuels plant
Added: 14 Feb 2012
London – Ensus has dismissed reports that it is about to permanently close its biofuels plant at Wi…

EU project targets biomass-to-chemicals processes
Added: 3 Feb 2012
Closing the gap between laboratory and the industrial practice for the production of chemicals from…

Sartorius upbeat over 2011 results, restructure
Added: 2 Feb 2012
Goettingen, Germany – Laboratory and process equipment group Sartorius has reported growth in sales…

System integrators in demand in India
Added: 25 Jan 2012
London – Manufacturing companies in India are increasingly turning to system integrators to impleme…

GAMBICA details 'Automated Britain' event
Added: 24 Jan 2012
London – GAMBICA and Intellect have issued more detail about their jointly organised conference eve…

Three big issues in 2012
Added: 23 Jan 2012
London – In the run-up to the recent holiday period I got to quiz a good number of UK engineers, fr…

German biogas plant pumps up the volume
Added: 19 Jan 2012
Kronprinzenkoog, Germany – Biogas producer Biogas Kruse has increased its biomethane generation by…

Microwave flow chemistry to "radically improve" drug development
Added: 18 Jan 2012
Cambridge, UK – Uniqsis and WaveCraft have agreed to jointly develop a new range of microwave-based…

Biochemical plants in chimneys
Added: 11 Jan 2012
?RWE Power and biotechnology company BRAIN are to expand their joint CO2 -to-chemicals research in …

Digester mixing system advances biogas production at Heinz Bakenhus
Added: 11 Nov 2011
Grossenkneten, Germany – Landia’s digester mixing system, which combines sludge recirculation with …

Brazil biomass producer targets Europe
Added: 7 Nov 2011
São Luís, Brazil – Suzano Renewable Energy, part of the Suzano Pulp and Paper company, has recently…

Apps ease maintenance woes
Added: 1 Nov 2011

While CMMS (computerised maintenance management system) software helps maintenance managers to trac…

Why energy-saving plans are failing to go the distance
Added: 1 Nov 2011

Depending on the relative cost of enery at the time, energy-efficiency programmes and capital inves…

Getting off the beaten track
Added: 1 Nov 2011
Professor Mike Bradley asks: Why don’t solids processing plants work properly?

AstraZeneca to establish $200m facility in China
Added: 17 Oct 2011
London — AstraZeneca is investing $200 million to establish a new manufacturing facility in China M…

Biomass players in the dark
Added: 4 Oct 2011
Lack of progress with Drax and Siemens plan to add 900MW of new capacity highlights barriers to exp…

Ensus sits out biofuel woes
Added: 13 Sep 2011
Competition for US imports and continuing uncertainty over regulatory support mechanisms have promp…