Stories Collection

1. RISING FEEDSTOCK costs and growing demand are pressuring global acetic acid and viny...
2. AS LYONDELL Chemical Company closes in on its acquisition of Occidental Petroleum Co...
3. Bill Newell has been appointed senior vice president and chief business officer of Q...
4. MEDIMMUNE Inc. received regulatory approval in Canada for Synagis (palivizumab) for ...
5. PENTOSTATIN SuperGen Inc. has received Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) approval fo...
6. THE POLYESTER fiber and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins businesses are impro...
7. Delta and Pine Land Company (D&PL) has acquired the remaining 50 percent interes...
8. RESPONDING TO the growing global food ingredients market, DuPont plans to expand its...
9. Real gross domestic product (GDP) in the US increased at an annual rate of 5.6 perce...
10. BUTADIENE North America butadiene producers have nominated a 2c. increase for June b...
11. Celanese Ventures, BASF Future Business and Eastman Ventures nurture innovation and ...
12. DOW CHEMICAL Company is increasing prices for all drum and pail orders of Syltherm 8...
13. CLARIANT HAS sold a pharmaceutical intermediates site at Varese, Italy, to Euticals ...
14. Specialties MCKINNON-LAND-MORAN LLC (MLM) has signed an agreement to buy BASF ...
15. THE POLYPROPYLENE market continues to pick up steam in terms of pricing and demand, ...
16. S. Brad Larson has been appointed president of Kelmar Industries Inc. and Microblen,...
17. Week ending June 14, 2002 These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise spec...
18. DOW CORNING Corp. is marketing a new line of lubricating thread pastes under its Mol...
19. HUNTSMAN Corp. is increasing the price of surfactants (nonyl phenol ethoxylates, lin...
20. DOW Chemical Company's epoxy products and intermediates business is increasing the o...
21. IN THE SAME way that transistors and early semiconductors were on the cusp of breaki...
22. A GENERAL SIGH of relief emanated from the biotech sector last month following the S...
23. CIBA Specialty Chemicals has won the 2002 Responsible Care award of the Association ...
24. THE AMERICAN Chemistry Council's (ACC) board of directors has voted to overhaul the ...
25. Baxter Healthcare Corp. has agreed to acquire a majority of ESI Lederle, a division ...
26. Celera Genomics Group will trim 16 percent of its work force and take a $2.8 million...
27. AGAINST THE backdrop of cautious sentiment on this year's profit outlook and a huge ...
28. Irving S. Rappaport has joined Symyx Technologies Inc. as vice president of intellec...
29. Lonza has appointed DeWolf Chemical to distribute in New England its performance che...
30. Irista Inc., a developer of supply chain logistics applications, has released irista...
31. AVON Products Inc. has restructured its manufacturing operations that will result in...
32. EM INDUSTRIES Inc., an affiliate of Merck KGaA, is increasing the price of specific ...
33. Chemical Company will increase the off-list price on all forms of Eastman NPG glycol...
34. JOHNSON MATTHEY PLC reported a 10 percent rise in operating profit to [pounds sterli...
35. Great Lakes Chemical Corp. has completed the expansion of its Pedrengo, Italy, manuf...
36. Jean-Marie Vallet has been appointed vice president of business development of Guilf...
37. Seal Sands Chemicals Ltd., a subsidiary of Rutherford Chemicals Inc., has opened a n...
38. WAM Systems, a provider of advanced supply chain planning (SCP) solutions for the ch...
39. Andrew Wahl has been promoted to president and chief executive officer of Optiva Inc...
40. Ed Baracchini has joined Metabasis Therapeutics Inc. as vice president of business d...
41. Rhoditech, the design engineering and project management arm of Rhodia SA, is deploy...
42. Crude tall oil (CTO) prices remain the same in the range of $100 to $110 per ton alt...
43. Despite a run-up in feedstock costs such as propylene and natural gas, US propylene ...
44. FMC Corp. says it will fall 25 to 30c. short of Wall Street earnings expectations of...
45. The American Society of Testing and Materials has issued specification D 6751 for al...
46. LYNE LABORATORIES and Liberty Pharmaceutical have established Nephrx, a joint ventur...
47. WESTERN European chlorine production declined 2 percent to 2.31 million tons during ...
48. CHEMCENTRAL Corp. is implementing a new operating structure using what it calls a &q...
49. Metachem Products LLC, a producer of chlorinated benzenes in Delaware City, Del., ha...
50. IN A MAJOR victory for the Bush administration and the chemical industry, the Senate...
51. David Fischer, business vice president of Dow Chemical Company's polyurethanes busin...
52. Computer Sciences Corp.'s chemicals group has earned the Software Engineering Instit...
53. In many cases senior leadership has yet to define a global, integrated view of its m...
54. DOW CHEMICAL Company's new line of inhibited, glycol-based heat transfer fluids have...
55. FOREST Laboratories Inc. reports a FDA advisory panel voted positively on the effica...
56. Carol R. Reed has been promoted to executive director of Genaissance Pharmaceuticals...
57. Matthew W. Adams has been named applications engineer for fluoropolymer sheet lining...
58. Prices & People: Week ending May 3, 2002 These chemical prices are list, unles...
59. INORGANICS PRICES Bulk Prices in April April...
60. SEN. ROBERT Torricelli (D-N.J.) will continue to seek reinstatement of taxes on the ...
61. BUOYED BY AN improving electronics sector, high-temperature plastics are expected to...
62. GRANDE PAROISSE, TotalFinaElf's fertilizer operation, had a net loss of [euro]1.1 bi...
63. GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Gilead Sciences Inc. have signed a licensing agreement to co...
64. LILLY ICOS LLC, a joint venture between Eli Lilly and Company and Icos Corp., has re...
65. THE CARBON BLACK industry faced a rough year in 2001, but the market has come back s...
66. NOVOZYMES A/S HAS entered into a licensing agreement with the Oklahoma City, Okla.-b...
67. Transammonia Inc. has signed an agreement with the Bahwan Group to buy the entire ou...
68. DOW CHEMICAL Company is adding an additional 35,000 metric tons of capacity to its D...
69. Demand for cumene fell sharply last year due to the collapse in phenol demand. With ...
70. Bruce F. Molino has been promoted to senior director of medicinal chemistry of Alban...
71. Praxair Inc. has launched the Medipure family of medical gases. The franchise includ...
72. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA has licensed several products for I-many Inc., a provider o...
73. Chlorine operating rates have shown steady increases since January. The effective op...
74. TALL OIL fractionators are encountering crude tall oil (CTO) stock buildup. Demand f...
75. ENVIRONMENTAL activists have filed a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protectio...
76. MAKHTESHIM-AGAN Industries Ltd. has agreed to acquire Feinchemie Schwebda GmbH, the ...
77. THE LATEST economic survey by the American Chemistry Council (ACC) indicates a robus...
78. DSM Desotech Inc., supplier of UV-curable fiber optic materials, has completed its n...
79. THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating emissions of volatile org...
80. Taiwan's petrochemical industry still confronts the challenges of a fairly mature do...
81. Marc Vasseur has been appointed chief executive officer and chairman of the board of...
82. Claudius Feger has been elected president of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)...
83. Rely Software Inc., a provider of global transportation management solutions to the ...
84. Sulfuric acid pricing has been stable to flat and has followed the decline in sulfur...
85. May contract prices for propylene are up 2 cents across the board, bringing polymer-...
86. NEW CAPACITY IN Chile over the last couple of years has led to gradual, but steady, ...
87. LIKE MOST INDUSTRIAL oils, demand for lard oil in the industrial manufacturing secto...
88. THE FOOD AND Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a severe stance toward recurrent ma...
89. LENZING recorded a 4 percent rise in sales to [euro]623 million ($573 million) and a...
90. Nova Chemicals Corp.'s Styrosun weather-resistant polystyrene is now available in No...
91. FOR A PUBLIC company, communicating with investors is one of the most critical facto...
92. POLYETHYLENE pricing is moving up rapidly as demand picks up and producers seek incr...
93. Torben Lund-Hansen has been appointed vice president of manufacturing of Genmab A/S....
94. NuCo2 Inc., a provider of bulk carbon dioxide systems and services for carbonating a...
95. Manugistics Group has acquired the assets and business of privately held Western Dat...
96. BY SELLING ITS petrochemicals division in March for [euro]2.25 billion ($2.05 billio...
97. AIR PRODUCTS and Chemicals Inc. will increase the price for all methylamines sold in...
98. AMGEN Inc. reports the existence in the US of a counterfeit drug product labeled as ...
99. Rolf Nyfeler has been appointed CEO of Bachem AG. Mr. Nyfeler is currently chief ope...
100. Jack Clem has been named president and general manager of Degussa Engineered Carbons...
101. SourceXL, formerly ChemXL, is launching a suite of hosted solutions to provide mid-s...
102. PETROCHEMICALS PRICES Bulk Prices In April April ...
103. PATHEON NC., the Toronto, Canada-based provider of pharmaceutical contract manufactu...
104. AVENTIS SA inked a $480 million deal with Genta Inc. to license its oncology drug, G...
105. LONZA HAS provisionally agreed to sell its polymer intermediates operation to Bear S...
106. ICL Fertilizers, the fertilizer division of Israel Chemicals, has completed its $45 ...
107. ACTIVITY WAS bustling at the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) inaugural U...
108. BOC Group had a 5 percent drop in sales to [pounds]1.9 billion ($2.8 billion) in the...
109. THE CURRENT harsh market conditions make the integration of refining and petrochemic...
110. Burdened with over $1 billion in debt, Polymer Group Inc. and 20 subsidiaries have f...
111. AS PART OF an effort to build more cost-effective production sites for its polyureth...
112. Ninety-eight percent of cumene is consumed for the production of phenol and acetone....
113. C.H.S. Majoor has been elected senior vice president and and officer of Calgon Carbo...
114. Quadra Chemicals Western Inc. will acquire substantially all the assets of Sego Inte...
115. SciQuest Inc., a software, information and services company, has introduced SciQuest...
116. THE NORTH American potash market is mature, and while some sources say it has been g...
117. AS RAW MATERIAL suppliers gather this week for the Society of Cosmetic Chemists' Sup...
118. A FORTRESS OF intellectual property (IP) protects a biotechnology firm's technology ...
119. Albrecht W. Frauendorf has been appointed senior director of DNA array manufacturing...
120. CHEMSPEED Ltd. is introducing what it calls the industry's first solid dosing unit a...
121. UK POLICE raided the offices and homes of the staff of six generics drug companies l...
122. Nova Chemicals Corp. says it has lopped off another $160 million in debt in the firs...
123. FOLLOWING A slump in US glycerine prices, the glycerine market is experiencing upwar...
124. ABBOTT Laboratories has filed applications with US and European regulatory authoriti...
125. DESPITE A dependence on a plasticizer industry that is increasingly affected by prop...
126. TITANIUM DIOXIDE ([TiO.sub.2]) producer NL Industries Inc. cut its 2001 bonus payout...
127. UOP LLC and Sud-Chemie Inc. have formed a new company, HyRadix Inc., to supply fuel ...
128. COMING OFF a difficult 2001 along with the rest of the chemical industry, BASF Corp....
129. Vance N. Meyer has been appointed global public relations director at Celanese AG. M...
130. Christopher R. Clegg has assumed responsibility for the global human resources organ...
131. PRICES & PEOPLE Week ending March 29, 2002 These chemical prices are list, ...
132. PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a new study, Paths to Value, which analyzes earl...
133. GLYCERINE Crompton Corp.'s Oleochemicals group will increase prices on its glycerine...
134. CORIXA Corp. intends to amend its Biological License Application for Bexxar (tositum...
135. EASTMAN Chemical Company will increase the off-list price of its methyl isobutyl ket...
136. CHEMICAL COMPANIES are becoming involved for the first time in emissions trading in ...
137. Roche has created an independent biotech company named BioXell, formed by the spinof...
138. DUPONT CANADA Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Enhance Packaging Technologi...
139. Bala Sreenivasan has been appointed research chemist at Polyphenolics. Mr. Sreenivas...
140. Elliott Grossbard has joined Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. as senior vicepresident of m...
141. MycroSensor Technologies has selected Knoxville, Tenn.-based Innovative Controls, an...
142. Invensys PLC'S production management division and the North American operation of Rh...
143. DUPONT AND Myriad Genetics Inc. have joined forces to investigate the genetics behin...
144. MOUNTING opposition by manufacturers to President George W. Bush's initiative to fur...
145. Steven W. Smith has been appointed vice-president of bioinformatics at NimbleGen Sys...
146. CLARIANT announced in February a reorganization of its Life Science Molecules (LSM) ...
147. Crompton Corp. introduced a new, non heavy metal organic base stabilizer (OBS) syste...
148. AFTER A SUCCESSFUL entry to the infant formula sector, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is...
149. THERE HAVE been major shifts in the ranks of the pharmaceutical giants over the last...
150. THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) is stepping up its safety measures on food and feed additive...
151. The Plaza Group has been selected by the Frontier Oil and Refining Company to market...
152. Ashland Specialty Chemical Company has teamed up with Ashland Union Electronic Chemi...
153. Atofina has selected Pavilion Technologies Inc., a real-time enterprise optimization...
154. This month, at least two major nitrogen fertilizer producers, Agrium Inc. and Potash...
155. Contract prices settled for March and April with producers gaining .75 cents per pou...
156. THE US LIME market is experiencing overcapacity because of weak demand in some key i...
157. EPOXY RESINS The epoxy products and intermediates business of Dow Chemical Company i...
158. VINNOLIT, Number four in Europe's polyvinyl chloride (PVC) market, says it is now on...
159. Gary A. Landsettle has been named director of sales for the FRP supply division of A...
160. Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, will build an $800 mi...
161. In line with other chemical companies, Rohm and Haas Company saw its revenues and ea...
162. DUPONT NYLON INTERMEDIATES AND SPECIALTIES is launching a market development program...
163. NOVARTIS AG posted first quarter profit up 20 percent to SFr 1.8 billion ($1 billion...
164. ROCHE RECENTLY released new data that appear to justify the hype surrounding its lat...
165. BASF has acquired from Hydro Formates, a Norsk Hydro subsidiary, a formic acid deriv...
166. Daiichi Fine Chemicals Co. Ltd., the vitamin and fine chemicals manufacturing subsid...
167. EXXONMOBIL Chemical Company is moving ahead with plans to expand its capacity for me...
168. Mechanical rubber goods, 30 percent; automotive components, 25 percent; adhesives, 2...
169. Richard Moras has been named marketing manager for the fiber coating and bonding mar...
170. International Specialty Products (ISP) sold its Haifa, Israel-based FineTech Ltd. un...
171. SOLVAY ADVANCED Polymers LLC has completed its previously announced expansions of it...
172. Thomas W. Dekleva has been appointed technical manager of the lubricants business in...
173. NEDERMAN Inc., of Westland, Mich., has developed the NEX S stainless steel fume extr...
174. PRICES & PEOPLE Week ending April 12, 2002 These chemical prices are list, ...
175. Credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the senior debt ratin...
176. THE PHARMACEUTICAL industry says a study documenting state efforts to rein in rising...
177. GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC and Cytokinetics Inc. intend to file an investigational new drug...
178. THE US BUTADIENE market is tightening as demand increases and the availability of fe...
179. SENATE DEMOCRATS charged last week that the Bush administration has dramatically slo...
180. Genencor International Inc. will build a 22,000-square-foot biologics facility to ma...
181. AS PART of their strategy to follow the feedstocks, Chevron Phillips Chemical Compan...
182. Paul J. Marangos has been selected as chief executive officer and a member of the bo...
183. Richard Casey has been named plant manager for Solvay Advanced Polymers LLC's Mariet...
184. SeeBeyond, a provider of e-business and application integration solutions, is suppor...
185. The aftermath of the Enron Corp. and Arthur Andersen downfalls has brought the issue...
186. A NEW APPLICATION for waxes may boost the industry's lagging growth rate. Although r...
187. THE GENERAL Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, is preparing...
188. BTX With most participants still in San Antonio, Tex., for NPRA, business has been l...
189. GENZYME GENERAL, a division of Genzyme Corp., has lowered its first-quarter earnings...
190. Sensient Technologies Corp. has purchased the flavors and essential oil operations o...
191. BASF CORP. is permanently reducing its capacity for expandable polystyrene (EPS) in ...
192. Steven Peltzman has been elected vice-president of business development and licensin...
193. Scott E. Deeter has been appointed president and chief executive officer at Ventria ...
194. Univertical Corp. has named Rishichem and Dovechemcentral as distributors of its ano...
195. In February, DuPont announced plans to transform the company into five market and te...
196. CONGRESS WILL review a settlement agreement that the Environmental Protection Agency...
197. A COMBINATION of low inventory, rising feedback costs and unplanned outages has cons...
198. Stephen Runnels has been appointed chief executive officer at S*BIO Pte Ltd. Mr. Run...
199. Richard L. Jackson has been appointed president and chief executive officer at EmerG...