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Profile The company provides scientific information products and services to the fine-chemical, pharmaceutical, agrochemical, biotechnology, and academic research communities. Synopsys operates worldwide, with offices and distributors in Europe, the United States, and Japan. It specializes in chemical reaction databases that deliver added-value information and refined data. 

The current or potential iadustrial appHcations of microemulsions iaclude metal working, catalysis, advanced ceramics processiag, production of nanostmctured materials (see Nanotechnology), dyeiag, agrochemicals, cosmetics, foods, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology (9,12—18). Environmental and human-safety aspects of surfactants have begun to receive considerable attention (19—21). 

Large, multinational companies engaged in discovery, manufacture, and distribution of agrochemicals, seeds, and other products of biotechnology. 

Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Divisions of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and of Agrochemicals as part of the program of the Biotechnology Secretariat at the Third Chemical Congress of North America (195th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society), Toronto, Ontario, Canada,... 

Inspection of the contributory curves shows that the main area of job growth has been in industry. This growth has been at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies principally, but also some jobs have been created at agrochemical, chemical, petroleum, lubricant, polymer, explosives, flavorings, photographic film, glass and ceramic companies. 

Wiley recognized the opportunity for the introduction of a series of books within the theme Agrochemicals and Plant Protection with a wide scope that includes chemistry, biology and biotechnology in the broadest sense. This series is effectively a replacement for the successful Progress in Pesticide Biochemistry and Toxicology , edited by Hutson and Roberts, which has run to nine volumes. In addition, it complements the international journals Pesticide Science and Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, published by Wiley on behalf of the Society of Chemical Industry. 

One of the most potentially lucrative approaches for value creation is the development of entirely new processes to make existing products. Over the next ten years, biotechnology and combinatorial chemistry are hkely to change the face of quite a number of industry segments even outside of agrochemicals or food ingredients, as well as the way that chemical companies produce molecules. 

Agrochemicals is an attractive biotechnology segment for chemical companies. It seems that the current fears of health and environmental risks are likely to be overcome in the long run, and the potential returns are high. Essentially, the winners here will be companies which already have a very strong base in traditional agrochemicals. 

By 2010, biotechnology is likely to have significantly transformed the agrochemicals market, with fungicides the only segment likely to remain rela-... 

Fig. 6.3 Biotechnology will significantly transform the agrochemicals market by 2010 Source Institut Sup rieur de lAgro-Alimentaire, broker reports, McKinsey analysis...

The winners will have to be strong in both traditional crop protection and plant biotechnology, and will be able to combine both skills effectively. They wiU have operational excellence in traditional agrochemicals and will use the returns from the traditional business to invest in plant biotechnology as a medium term growth platform. 

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