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DuPont India opens research facility in Hyderabad
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 00:59 IST |
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Hyderabad: DuPont India, a subsidiary of the farming solutions provider EI du Pont de Nemours and Company, has opened the first research facility at the DuPont Knowledge Center (DKC) in Hyderabad. The Biotech Research Center begins its operations with more than 80 scientists working on a variety of global research programs on plant and industrial biotechnology. The India center is the first integrated agriculture and industrial biotechnology research center for DuPont outside the U.S. The other research facilities at the DKC will come up in phases over the next couple of months, and the complete DuPont Knowledge Center is expected to be formally inaugurated sometime before this year-end.
"The global demand for agricultural crops is very strong. We have the science to help farmers and others across the value chain meet the growing demand and this research center is going to help us do that faster," said William Niebur, vice president, DuPont Genetics Research and Development and chief scientist at DuPont subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International.
The center will focus on bringing new crop genetics to the market faster and on application of industrial biotechnology to produce biofuels and biomaterials for global markets. Plant biotech scientists at the DKC will work on developing biotech traits and technologies that will be incorporated into multiple crops for markets the world over. The trait discovery work conducted on site will help create advanced seed products to meet the growing global demand for increased food production, improved animal feed products and expanding energy needs. Research teams will work to deliver new technologies and products for the DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition platform and the DuPont Applied BioSciences business for India and global markets. Both research teams will work together to develop products from renewable resources for food, feed, materials and energy.
DuPont expects the number at the Biotech Research Center to double by year-end. An estimated total of 600 scientists and across all disciplines will work out of DKC once it is fully functional.