Partners sought

Technology company (a pharma jv) has developed rapid closed loop cycling on bench top, combining chemistry and biology in the pharmaceutical laboratory. Scope for fantastic research productivity increases – but difficulties in pumping extremely small volumes of liquid.
New partners are sought.

Public consultation by EU on financial rules for FP7

A public consultation by the EU on the financial rules that are applied to their programmes (including FP7) is open at:

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/consultations/FRconsult2009_en.htm

This is an opportunity to feedback views on the ways that the rules are implemented and how they might be improved. The consultation closes on 18th December.

National Contact Point Team
Tel: 0870 600 6080
Email: help@fp7uk.co.uk
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4591 R&D Partner

Japanese company seeks UK R&D partner for work on functional films.
Properties of interest include heat resistance, weatherproofing, low cost polymers, thermplastics, crystalline structures, transparent conductive layer or transparent layer with lower water vapor permeability.

Interests also in specialty surface processing technologies for films to make the layers referred to above.

Enquiry received via UKTI and CIA

4582 Friedel Crafts Acylation

A chemical cluster has the following requirement for custom chemistry: “Our chemistry requires expertise and capabilities for Friedel-Crafts acylation and condensation reactions and handling and shipping of high VOC and potentially also chlorinated solvent formulations. We need supply solutions in scales ranging from very small batches (10 and 50 kg) to multi tonne. Ideally, we [...]