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Materia announced the exclusive licensing of its metathesis technology to BASF, the world's leading chemical company, for use in the R&D of certain speciality chemicals. Metathesis catalysts enable the formation and manipulation of carbon-carbon bonds in the synthesis of novel speciality chemicals with superior properties as well as in the development of more efficient and low cost production processes for existing ones. Materia's catalysts include those from Professor Robert Grubbs at Caltech who won the Nobel Prize for the technology in 2005. Materia was founded in 1998 to commercialize olefin metathesis catalyst technology.
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company. Both partners have also concluded long-term agreements concerning contract manufacturing and precious metal recycling. Based on these agreements, Ravindra Heraeus will continue to produce precious metal catalysts for the Indian market and recycle used catalysts at its site in Udaipur on beh
rapidly growing. In response to this growth, catalysts production and shipments in Japan, which exceeded 90,000 tonnes in 2002, further increased to 92,250 tonnes in 2003. Production and shipments were up 2% and 3% respectively in 2003. Growth in demand for automotive catalysts is being fuelled by t