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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
In England, D1 Oils reported that it has 257,370 hectares of jatropha under cultivation in India, Southeast Asia and Africa under its joint venture with BP. D1-BP Fuel Crops said that it has now commenced its first shipments of jatropha oil, delivering 2,000 tonnes recently from its plantations. The company, which cultivates jatropha under co-operative arrangements [...]
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Treehugger (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
all images: D1 Oils Though The Guardian is calling it a biodiesel breakthrough, the announcement by D1 Oils that they are (finally) on track to deliver their first commercial quantity, 1000 tonnes, of raw jatropha oil by December of this year seems to be more a sigh of relief than anything else. The firm is lost £13.1 million ($23 million) in the first half of the year, and could see losses as high...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
The owner of paint and chemicals company Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) is to cut 3,500 jobs by 2011 and postpone its share buy back programme.
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Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
BIOFUELS business D1 Oils says it is in talks to sell its Bromborough refining site which will reduce losses when it reports annual results in six months.
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Outstanding Investment, Top stocks (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
In the midst of $100+ billion bankruptcies, it may seem a bit strange to read my reports of tiny multi-million dollar silver mints and dealers who are in trouble with delivery delays, such as the Perth Mint, Kitco, Johnson Matthey, NorthWest Territorial Mint. You might be wondering if I've lost my perspective, or focus. But I'm concerned for the people who were smart enough to get "into silver" because...
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DieselNet.com RSS (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Johnson Matthey announced that a demonstration of its SCRT diesel retrofit technology has been launched with a fleet of Ralph grocery trucks in southern California.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The following is a round-up of key small cap movers on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday.
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trucks world news (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Johnson Matthey Technology Puts they on Southern California Roads Long Beach, Calif.,USA - Trading Markets -Sept 16, 2008: -- Older big-rig trucks now can have cleaner emissions than even the most modern clean diesel trucks... Johnson Matthey's latest diesel emissions technology , the SCRT(R) system , was unveiled in southern California today... Johnson Matthey and its partner, Cummins Emissions Solutions...
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Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Germany's Bayer AG has snapped up the protein engineering company Direvo for $298 million. The acquisition, one in a series of planned buyouts, is designed to bolster the biologics work being done by Bayer Schering. Direvo's protein engineering drug platform will be deployed to find new therapeutic candidates. Bayer says the work will be integrated into the company's existing R&D infrastructure ....
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Two former managers of the Johnson Matthey Inc. metal-refining facility in West Valley City have pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making false statements about levels of selenium in wastewater.
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Somervell County Salon (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
And now, from the company that brought the world heroin , the extinction of the human race.
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Rants From The Rookery (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Just making sure we still have them and are trying to save them. In early June , Germany halted the sale of seven insecticides linked to the deaths of honeybees in 11,500 colonies. The main culprit was Bayer AG's corn seed treatment clothianidine (trade name Poncho), which the German crop research institute determined killed the bees. Bayer said improper seed handling caused particles containing the...
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bootstrap analysis (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Last month I wrote about Germany's ban on the pesticide clothianidine, produced by Bayer AG. It was implicated in the death of thousands of honeybee colonies. See that post for more background.Last week the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a...
