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Materia Will Build Plant In Singapore

by Michael McCoy
March 21, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 12

Materia will build an R&D facility and catalyst plant in Singapore. The Pasadena, Calif.-based firm says the plant will reach initial operating capacity of 10 metric tons per year by the end of 2012. Materia was founded in 1998 to commercialize olefin metathesis catalyst technology invented by California Institute of Technology professor Robert H. Grubbs. In January, it received $17 million from Alfred Bader, founder of Aldrich Chemical, and the investment group Bader/Bernstein.

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