SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 21, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) today announced that the Symyx Screening Pressure Reactor (SPR) has won an R&D 100 Award for being one of the most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace in 2009. Selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine, this award provides a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the SPR is one of the most innovative products of the year.
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The Symyx Screening Pressure Reactor is a high-throughput research system enabling up to a 100-fold increase in the speed of optimizing catalysts and catalytic processes. The Symyx SPR is available for refining, petrochemical and organic and fine chemical applications. Specific uses include research of sulfur and nitrogen removal to produce clean fuels, applications in emerging catalytic fields such as biomass, and applications in the discovery of biopharmaceutical drugs.
"At a time when R&D operations are under tremendous stress, we're honored to receive recognition for a product that enables scientists to do more with less," said Richard Boehner, president, Symyx High Productivity Research (HPR). "The SPR allows more catalysts to be tested, under more conditions, and helps scientists make better-informed decisions."
For the last 47 years, the R&D 100 Awards have identified revolutionary technologies newly introduced to the market. Many of these, including the fax machine, the automated teller machine (ATM), the NicoDerm(r) antismoking patch and HDTV, have become household names, helping shape everyday life for many Americans.
For more information about the Symyx Screening Pressure Reactor and other Symyx offerings, please visit: http://www.symyx.com/products/tools/tools-technology/reactors/.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:SMMX) enables companies in life sciences, chemicals and energy, and consumer and industrial products to transform scientific R&D and achieve extraordinary breakthroughs in productivity and return on investment. Symyx scientific information management enables scientists to design, execute, analyze, and report experimental results faster, more easily, and less expensively. Symyx microscale, parallel experimentation enables a single scientist to rapidly explore a broad experimental space and develop comprehensive data sets in days - not weeks or months. Symyx contract research delivers these advantages on a project basis and enables companies to increase R&D productivity, agility, and flexibility. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.
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