16-05-2013

OPX Biotechnologies, Inc. (OPXBIO) and Evonik Industries AG announced the two companies have entered into an agreement to jointly develop certain bio-based specialty chemicals. The joint-development agreement signed May 3rd 2013 calls for OPXBIO to use its proprietary EDGE™ (Efficiency ...

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Patrik Wohlhauser, member of the Executive Board: “In the Health & Nutrition Business Unit alone we hope to see sales of €1 billion by 2020 from products made using biotechnology.”

11-10-2012

Evonik Industries plans to continue expanding its commitment to biotechnology. “Biotech opens up interesting opportunities for profitable growth in a range of business areas,” says Patrik Wohlhauser, a member of the Executive Board. “It’s also giving Evonik’s growth strategy a stronger focus ...

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09-08-2012

Evonik Industries AG and BRAIN AG co-operate in the field of the development of novelmicroorganisms with unique, selective binding- and adsorption characteristics on selected surfaces. Within the co-operation the partners pursue the joint objective of identifying and developing suitable ...

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16-07-2012

Evonik Industries is moving forward with its plans to produce Biolys®, a source of L-lysine for animal nutrition, in the OOO DonBioTech joint venture in Russia. The Evonik Executive Board has approved the realization of the project, based in Volgodonsk in Russia's Rostov region. The ...

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Investments of approx. €350 million

20-06-2012

Evonik plans to construct new facilities for the biotechnology production of its Biolys® feed additive (source of L-lysine) in the growth markets of South America and Eastern Europe. Work is also underway to expand the production facility at the Blair site in the U.S., with completion ...

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26-04-2012

Effective immediately, Evonik Industries is increasing the prices for the products L-Ornithine-L-Aspartate, L-Proline, L-Lysine salts, L-Methionine, L-Arginine-L-Aspartate, Glycine and all other cGMP-grade amino acids. The increase amounts to 10 – 20 percents and applies globally to all new ...

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01-02-2012

The goal of the interdisciplinary research project PeTrA*, which is sponsored by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), is supersede the need for injections for biopharmaceuticals used e.g. in cancer immunotherapy by developing spray and tablet formulations which include ...

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Investment in attractive pharmaceuticals market

18-11-2011

Evonik Industries AG has set up a new laboratory at their Hanau site for highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI) and expanded their cGMP capacity for HPAPI on a kilogram scale at Tippecanoe Laboratories (Lafayette, Indiana, USA). The new laboratory allows Evonik to develop and ...

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After acquisition of RESOMER business further expansion of Pharma Polymers activities

04-11-2011

Evonik Industries AG has reached an agreement to acquire the Pharmaceuticals business of SurModics, Inc. headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA. Signing took place on November 1, 2011 and the transaction is expected to close shortly. Following the acquisition of the RESOMER® business ...

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Growing demand for biotechnology-manufactured L-lysine in Russia

05-10-2011

Evonik Industries and Russian company RusBiotech International have established the joint venture Russkie Biotechnologii for manufacturing L-lysine in Russia by means of a biotechnological process. Vassily Golubev, governor of the Rostov-on-Don region, and Vadim Varshavsky, a deputy of the ...

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