Article: Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo and Symyx Sign Tools Agreement for High Speed Materials Discovery.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1999--

The Instituto Mexicano Del Petroleo (IMP) and Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) today announced that IMP has purchased an initial module of Symyx' Discovery Tools(TM) Heterogeneous Catalysis System.

In addition, IMP has an option to purchase a second module within the next 12 months. This is the first sale of a Symyx heterogeneous catalysis system; Symyx completed the sale of a polyolefins Discovery Tools System to the Dow Chemical Company in November, 1999. This purchase provides IMP with the capability to increase experimental throughput up to 50-fold within its laboratories, and will be ...

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