CNPC bears 60 %, Holley 40 % of the 2.4 billion Yuan overall investment. Beginning of production is scheduled for early 2015, cassava supply will be 860.000 t/y China Industrial Biotechnology News, May 31, 2013
CAS and others team up with UK Royal Chemical Society for launch of international academic journals in inorganic and organic chemistry
Publication rules will follow international standards, with 4 deputy editors from Japan, the US, Europe and China. Signatories are UK Royal Chemical Society, CAS, Peking University, CAS Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry and the Chinese Chemical Society. The first issues are to be published at the beginning of 2014 Science and Technology Daily, May 27, […]
Longnan Municipal Forest Research Institute breeds olive trees yielding high-quality olive oil
The research center, based in Gansu Province, had established a germplasm resource and did breeding experiments covering 106 olive varieties and 12.300 strains to arrive at a virgin olive oil which is considered to meed international standards. China Industrial Biotechnology Network, May 29, 2013
Jiangr Biotechnology Co. builds new plant for Monascus products
Jiangr Co., located in Zhejiang Province, is an international leader in Monascus purpurea products such as Monascus red rice, monascin and monacolin K. Present production scale is 6.000 t/y and will be tripled shortly. The products are low in citrinin. Resveratrol is a newly added specialty. China Industrial Biotechnology Network, May 29, 2013
CAS South China Botanical Garden develops α-and ß-amino isobutyric acids into fruit preservatives
As Chinese fruit harvest losses exceed 100 billion Yuan per year, this development which has been tested with litchi, mango, kiwi, papaya and other fruits is considered very important China Industrial Biotechnology News, May 29, 2013
National Natural Science Foundation will fund R&D with 23,8 billion Yuan (about 3,9 billion USD) in 2013
71 % will be covered by the central government, and 158.000 applications have been received so far. In 2012, about 38.400 applications out of 177.000 were funded. CAS news release, May 29, 2013
Legal limitation of petrochemistry-based plastic bags since 2008 was no success
China’s nationwide ban on the production, sale and use of plastic shopping bags with thickness less than 0.025 mm seems to have faltered, within 5 years there was a reduction of just 10 %. A major reason is that farmers’ markets did not comply and are difficult to control. Stricter rules will be implemented in […]
Tsingtao Brewery will host State Key Laboratory of Beer Fermentation and Engineering
MOST has accepted to install a State Key Laboratory of Beer Science and Technology at Qingdao Beer Co. in Shandong China Industrial Biotechnology Network, May 28, 2013
New enzyme production center to be built at Tianjin City Jiashan Industrial Park
A major company involved is Jinshi New-type Ferment Co., a producer of glucoamylase, protease and feed enzymes. The first phase of construction will take 24 months. China Industrial Biotechnology Network, May 27, 2013
CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology develops HTS assay for succinic acid
The microfluidic assay is based on fumarate reductase/peroxidase and allows 10 – 100 cycles per second at a sensitivity of 50 – 200 vM/L. CAS press release, June 27, 2013