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Article: Novozymes Getting Protein Production, More From Delta.
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- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Senior Staff Writer
Danish company Novozymes A/S acquired a recombinant protein company from the Sanofi-Aventis Group, creating a new subsidiary based in Nottingham, UK.
Delta Biotechnology Ltd., which was formed in 1984, now falls under the realm of Copenhagen-based Novozymes. Delta brings to the table a business with research and development, as well as manufacturing facilities. The company develops and manufactures recombinant protein products using engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast strains.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the fit is good for both companies, said Anders Gram, managing director of the new company now ...