Süd-Chemie sales break €1 bn barrier: 2006

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Weight: 426 KB
• Volume: 2007
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(07)70333-1

✦ Synopsis

uses for which include bioethanol production, performing particularly well and rapidly catching up with the company's most important product, washing product enzymes. Turnover was up 20% for technical enzymes in 1Q 2007, with surprisingly good sales of enzymes for bioethanol production on the US market as an alternative fuel for cars; China also drove sales up. Technical enzymes now account for 28% of Novozymes' total turnover, compared with 30% for washing product enzymes.