{"id":17191,"date":"2013-10-07T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T07:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20131004\/NEWS\/131009955\/invista-and-ingenza-team-up-for-bio-derived-chemicals"},"modified":"2013-10-07T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T08:09:30","slug":"invista-and-ingenza-announce-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/invista-and-ingenza-announce-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"INVISTA and Ingenza announce collaboration for the development of bio-derived industrial chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INVISTA, one of the world\u2019s largest integrated producers of polymers and fibers, and Ingenza, a leading industrial biotechnology and synthetic biology company, announce a collaboration for the development of new technologies to enable bio-derived processes for the production of industrial chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration will leverage INVISTA\u2019s capabilities in biotechnology and catalysis, and knowledge of the chemicals industry, and Ingenza\u2019s synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology capabilities for the development of new, bio-derived routes to industrial chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINVISTA believes biotechnology has the potential to significantly improve the cost and availability of several chemicals and raw materials that are used to produce its current products,\u201d said Warren Primeaux, president of INVISTA Intermediates. \u201cWe see Ingenza\u2019s capabilities as very complementary to our own and are pleased to announce this extended collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Ian Fotheringham, president of Ingenza, \u201cThis exciting partnership with INVISTA brings together two innovative, global leading companies that could establish a new generation of transformational bio-manufacturing technologies for industrial chemicals and polymers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About Ingenza<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ingenza Ltd. is an industrial biotechnology company based in Roslin, Edinburgh, UK. The company has a broad customer base within the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food, feed and fuel industries where it applies its proprietary synthetic biology to manufacture industrial products.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About INVISTA<br \/>\n<\/strong>With leading brands including LYCRA\u00ae, COOLMAX\u00ae, CORDURA\u00ae, STAINMASTER\u00ae and ANTRON\u00ae, INVISTA is one of the world\u2019s largest integrated producers of chemical intermediates, polymers and fibers. The company\u2019s advantaged technologies for nylon, spandex and polyester are used to produce clothing, carpet, car parts and countless other everyday products. Headquartered in the United States, INVISTA operates in more than 20 countries and has about 10,000 employees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WICHITA, KAN. &mdash; Invista has announced a partnership with U.K.-based Ingenza Ltd. to pursue the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2449,3374],"class_list":["post-17191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ingenza-ltd","supplier-invista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17191"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}