A $1 bn Russian fund seeks investment projects in nanotechnology (a fairly loose definition). Preferences are specified for activities of interest (and are available on request from SORIS).
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The Technology Strategy Board is planning to hold a sandpit on ‘User centred design for energy efficiency in buildings’ in early 2010. A sandpit is a 5 day intensive immersive workshop where participants from a wide range of backgrounds compete to attend, but once there they work collaboratively to come up with new [...] Ethyl silicates sought by a new company working on enhanced oil recovery. Price is an important factor but the enquirer favours a European supplier for ease and simplicity. 35 kg of 3 n-propyl phenol required. It is thought to be an odour component for tsetse fly control. UK company has raised this enquiry through a regional chemical cluster – but the product is used overseas (and may be formulated overseas). SORIS suspects that existing supply arrangements have proved too informal. “A solution seeking a problem”. Four Delta Consulting Ltd is collaborating with Mott Medallist Professor Peter Weightman of the Department of Physics, University of Liverpool in seeking industrial applications for Reflectance Anisotropy Spectroscopy (RAS). This spectroscopic technique can provide an exceptionally sensitive probe of surfaces and for materials on surfaces (see www.liv.ac.uk/~sc35/RAS.htm) . Peter seeks [...] UK company needs contact filling and packing of a solid dose diagnostic reagent (into 75,000 x 10 mg vials). Material is for a biological application, so might have to be sterile or aseptic. Table 3.2 of Annex VI of CLP Regulation was thought to be a straightforward “cut and paste” from Annex I of the Dangerous Substance Directive. It is not. Companies should verify carefully the status of their substances under Annex VI, Table 3.2.The UK Competent Authority promises to be pragmatic and proportionate in dealing [...] European Commission has listed a further 59 chemicals which will be allowed into the EU duty free from 1 July 2010 More information, and the proposed and existing suspensions, can be found at www.berr.gov.uk//whatwedo/europeantrade/importing-into-uk/duty-suspensions-quotas/page23164.html Enquirer seeks contract nitration and chlorination (by the same contractor). Information on scale still awaited. |
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