Elevance and Genting Partner to Produce <b>Novel</b> Specialty <b>...</b> - Blog Novel Malaysia |
| Elevance and Genting Partner to Produce <b>Novel</b> Specialty <b>...</b> Posted: 14 Jul 2014 07:08 AM PDT Woodridge, IL—Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., a high-growth specialty chemicals company that creates novel specialty chemicals from natural oils, July 14 announced a new collaboration with Genting Plantations Berhad through Genting Integrated Biorefinery Sdn Bhd (GIB), to be located in the Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Lahad Datu, Sabah, Malaysia. The 25:75 collaboration between Elevance and Genting Plantations Berhad will build a 240,000 MT metathesis biorefinery based on Elevance's proprietary metathesis technology, and will produce renewable, high-performance olefins and specialty chemicals that can be used in multiple end-product applications, including lubricants, surfactants and detergents. As part of the collaboration agreement, GIB has agreed to pay Elevance license and design fees, and Elevance will provide intellectual property rights, knowledge transfer, and technical and consulting services. Elevance will also be exclusively responsible for the sale of all specialty chemicals that are produced at the biorefinery. "This collaboration extends our ability to deliver novel products with improved performance, helping to achieve a paradigm shift in the way companies are addressing industry and consumer demand — making better products while leaving a smaller environmental footprint — in personal care products, detergents and cleaners, engineered polymers, lubricants and additives, and other specialty chemicals markets," said Elevance CEO K'Lynne Johnson. "Genting Integrated Biorefinery will spearhead our Group's expansion into the high value-added palm oil downstream segment that will showcase palm oil's immense potential to serve an ever-increasing variety of applications and further complement the many pioneering initiatives we are pursuing in our ongoing drive to unlock palm oil's full potential through scientific innovation," said Genting Plantations Berhad Chief Executive Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay. The Elevance metathesis biorefinery produces multiple high-value chemical streams similar to petroleum-based refineries. Elevance's low-pressure, low-temperature process uses Nobel Prize-winning innovations in metathesis catalysis that consume significantly less energy and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 percent compared to petrochemical technologies. A highly efficient, selective catalyst is used to break down natural oils and recombine fragments, resulting in a process with lower source pollution, production costs and capital expenditures than petrochemical refineries. For more information, call 866-625-7103.  |
| Giddens Ko's new film to hit theaters in <b>Malaysia</b>, Singapore｜Arts <b>...</b> Posted: 25 Aug 2014 06:14 PM PDT  A still from the movie. (Photo/Amazing Film Studio) Cafe. Waiting. Love, the new romantic comedy by Taiwanese writer and filmmaker Giddens Ko, is set to hit theaters in Malaysia and Singapore after brewing up success at the domestic box office. Co-produced by Ko and adapted from his novel of the same title, the film will start showing in Malaysia on Aug. 28 and in Singapore on Sept. 4. At a press conference in Singapore Sunday, the film's director Chiang Chin-lin said he hopes the movie illustrates how "everyone is waiting for someone." Maegan Lai, who plays a barista in the film, told the press how she had to learn to make coffee for her role and ended up preparing every single cup that appears on screen. "Cafe. Waiting. Love" follows the story of college girl Si-ying (played by newcomer Vivian Sung), who works part-time in a coffee shop and develops a secret crush on a frequent customer. When she is not thinking about her crush, she hangs out with her wacky friend A-Tuo. As the film progresses, Si-ying begins to discover the story behind the coffee shop and its owner. The film raked in an impressive over NT$100 million (US$3.33 million) at the Taiwan box office in its first week after its release on Aug. 15, according to Amazing Film Studio, one of the film's production companies. It is currently showing in Hong Kong and Macau. Cafe. Waiting. Love is the third novel of Giddens Ko to be adapted into a film. In 2011, his novel-turned-film You Are the Apple of My Eye became a blockbuster in Taiwan and surpassed the 2004 Hong Kong film Kung Fu Hustle to become the highest-grossing Chinese-language movie in Hong Kong's history. Ko's Killer series was also adapted that same year into The Killer Who Never Kills, which failed to become a huge hit but earned a best newcomer prize for singer and lead actor Jam Hsiao in the Hong Kong Film Awards. References: Cafe. Waiting. Love 等一個人咖啡 Giddens Ko 九把刀 Chiang Chin-lin 江金霖 Maegan Lai 賴雅妍 Vivian Sung 宋芸樺 You Are the Apple of My Eye 那些年，我們一起追的女孩 |
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