Science company finds new home in the Triangle

  • 2015-01-22
Danish enzyme company Novozymes has moved to Research Triangle Park, into a building once occupied by Synthon Pharmaceuticals.

Novozymes hopes to change the farming industry for good. At first, Novozymes planned to move to Cary, then decided to move to the Raleigh area instead, taking over the Synthon building. Synthon had been working to develop a duckweed culture that would grow pharmaceutical proteins, a technology it had acquired from Biolex Therapeutics of Pittsburgh. Neither Biolex nor Synthon was able to perfect the process, so Novozymes has taken over the 30,536 square foot building. Novozymes bought the former Synthon building, which Synthon had owned since 2008, for $5.25m. It is part of a campus comprising 16 acres.

Synthon has since moved elsewhere in Research Triangle Park, while Novozyme's North American headquarters are in Franklinton. Novozymes is apparently going to keep working on duckweed, which is an aquatic plant that produces large amounts of biomass when grown in municipal wastewater or livestock effluent. The biomass produced when duckweed feeds on the nutrients in these fluids is high in either starch or protein, and can be used to produce ethanol.

Since Novozymes is new to the Raleigh area, the company will probably want to work with Stationery printers to create a letterhead reflecting its new address. It may also want to consult a business card printing company to produce new cards for employees.
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