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BUSINESS Business Roundup ShareShare onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail C&EN, 2020, 98 (19), p 13May 18, 2020Cite this:C&EN 98, 19, 13AbstractNova Chemicals and Enerkem will collaborate on technology to make ethylene from municipal solid waste. Enerkem runs a plant in Edmonton, Alberta, that gasifies the waste and converts the resulting synthesis gas—a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen—into methanol and ethanol. Purdue University has licensed rare-earths extraction and purifying technology based on ligand-assisted chromatography to Hasler Ventures. The process is better for the environment than conventional acid-based methods used to produce the important electronic materials, Purdue says. DSM has agreed to make 2.8 million nose swabs for COVID-19 test kits in the Netherlands within 3 months. It took the firm 2 weeks to establish a swab production system on Dutch soil following a call for help by the Dutch government. Ecoinno, a Hong Kong–based start-up, has received a $6 million investment from the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund to make a biodegradable composite out of leftovers from processing bamboo and sugar cane.View: PDF | Full Text HTML
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