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Clariant Masterbatches, a supplier of color and additive masterbatches, was awarded ...
Emagia Corp., an enterprise cash flow management software company, reports that Atof...
A SENATE committee has approved two amendments to an international treaty that would...
Prices of carrageenan are estimated at $9.00 to $9.50 per kilogram and $3.50 to $4.5...
July styrene contracts have settled up 2 cents to 34 to 37 cents per pound, due main...
THE NORTH American magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) market has been in a balanced sta...
BARR LABORATORIES Inc. posted fourth quarter 2002 net profit of $44.9 million, or 98...
THE OCCUPATIONAL Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it will reopen the gly...
THE MARKET for methanol remains tight but extremely quiet, with little spot activity...
THE ECONOMY is weakening and could fall into another downturn, bringing up the spect...
Messer Griesheim Industries has sold its Canadian business to Air Liquide Canada Inc...
FOR THE first time ever, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking enforce...
Peter K. Working has been promoted to senior vice president of research and developm...
Peter Fearn has taken on the responsibilities of managing director of Finnish Chemic...
Working Concepts, a division of Towers Perrin, and provider of e-human resource tech...
THE BROMINE market is mature, experiencing limited growth in traditional application...
US approval of new molecular entities is off this year, suggesting rough times ahead...
Solutia Inc. is increasing the price for all grades of Resimene resin products for t...
THE MARKET FOR xanthan gum is expected to tighten as oil field sales begin to reboun...
RUSSIA had ended production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and halons after the World...
AMERICAN Vanguard Corp.'s second quarter profits jumped 37 percent to $1.1 million (...
Japan's Mitsui Chemical plans to sell off its 50 percent equity stake in its synthet...
MITSUBISHI GAS Chemical Company plans to build a 10,000 metric ton-per-year nylon MX...
Kenneth Yu has been appointed vice president of business development and president o...
Thomas G. Evans has been appointed executive director of infectious diseases clinica...
IN A JULY 15 article, "Crompton Further Strengthens Its Customer Focus," a...
GSE Systems Inc., a provider of real-time simulation and process control solutions f...
ROBINSON BROTHERS Ltd. has introduced a new range of amines derived by catalytic hyd...
ABBOTT LABORATORIES received formal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for ...
BTX August contract prices were reportedly confirmed at $1.35 per gallon, well off t...
A LARGE NUMBER of Western European fertilizer producers want to exit the market, but...
Nova Chemicals Corp. and BASF Corp. have entered into a long-term supply agreement, ...
MAJOR CHEMICAL companies posted sequential improvements in second quarter earnings a...
Nick Hyde has been named global business director for the pharmaceutical services bu...
Charles G. Griswold, vice president of the chemical division of Schenectady Internat...
Amino GmbH, a producer of amino actives, and Polifarma SpA of Rome have signed a glo...
Oildex, an Internet-based suite of integrated software services for the upstream pet...
A FEDERAL COURT of appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that Dow Chemical Company...
Prices on guar gum may escalate near-term due to unseasonable monsoon rains in Pakis...
August propylene prices appear poised for a rollover at 21.75 cents for polymer grad...
PERHAPS THE biggest and boldest in a string of recent acquisitions, Bunge Ltd.'s mov...
RANBAXY Laboratories Ltd. reported second quarter net profit up 190 percent to Rs. 1...
3M COMPANY is objecting to a proposed rule that would restrict the use of 75 chemica...
THE WORST floods in Central Europe in over a century shut down chemical plants in th...
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company said in its quarterly 10-Q report filed with the Securi...
Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. expects the execution of a pigment development agreemen...
THE MARKET for titanium dioxide (Ti[O.sub.2]) remains strong, but its outlook for th...
Daniel G. Welch has been appointed chairman and CEO of Triangle Pharmaceuticals Inc....
Daniel Dillenseger has been named general manager of Polarome Europe in Basel, Switz...
THE LAUNCH of Chemical Market Reporter's new Web site (www.chemicalmarketreporter.co...
ETHYL CORP.'s gasoline additive methylcyclopentadienyl manganese carbonyl (MMT) has ...
OMEGA PROTEIN Corp. has reported net income of $2.9 million for the second quarter c...
FERRO CORP.'S recent divestiture of its powder coatings operations to Akzo Nobel NV ...
PRESIDENT GEORGE W Bush last week signed industry-supported legislation restoring th...
BAYER'S SHARE price on the Frankfurt stock exchange slumped to a 12-month low of [eu...
THE BRAND-NAME pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries are sharply criticizing t...
Cambrex Corp. will build new laboratories and a pre-clinical-scale pilot plant to ad...
AFTER CELANESE declared force majeure last week on acetic acid and derivatives suppl...
Jean Wills has been appointed executive vice president at the American Oil Chemists'...
Joseph M. Di Bussolo has been named director of field applications at Cohesive Techn...
Week ending August 2, 2002 These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise specif...
Oversized and highly debt-funded acquisitions as well as negative financial performa...
DOW HALTERMANN CUSTOM PROCESSING (DHCP) has launched a Web site describing its facil...
BIOGEN INC. and Celltech Group PLC report two Phase III studies of CDP 571, their hu...
DESPITE A fundamentally long position in North America, phenol producers are poised ...
POLYMERAdditives.com LLC, an e-marketplace for polymer additives, is increasing its ...
Elan Corp. unveiled a recovery plan to restructure itself into a new biopharmaceutic...
DOW Chemical Company and BASF AG will join forces to develop technology for the manu...
Donna Supko has been appointed director of regulatory affairs of Paratek Pharmaceuti...
Neal Fitzpatrick has been appointed to the newly established position of vice presid...
Cognis and Norway-based Natural ASA have signed an agreement which grants Cognis an ...
WAM Systems, a provider of advanced supply chain planning (SCP) solutions designed e...
Other Bulk Chemicals Alginates 4.20-4.60 lb. Carrageenan ...
Prices of alginates are estimated at $4.20 to $4.60 per pound. Key market sectors fo...
Despite a fundamentally long position in North America, US phenol producers are expe...
STRUCTURAL engineers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) hav...
SCHERING-PLOUGH Corp. plans to appeal a decision by a US district court which found ...
AFTER DECADES of exploiting the restorative properties of hyaluronic acid (HA) for u...
Bob Smith has joined Stryka Botanics Company Inc. as national sales manager. Mr. Smi...
Christine Carberry has been appointed vice president of program and alliance managem...
Prices & People Week ending July 12, 2002 These chemical prices are list, u...
As in other electronic chemical sectors, players in chemical mechanical planarizatio...
SCHENECTADY International Inc. is increasing the list prices of alkylphenols, alkylc...
WATSON Pharmaceuticals Inc. was one of seven companies to receive FDA approval for i...
OMG INDUSTRIES is bullish on its new PlastiStab 2265, an over-based calcium oleate w...
FOLLOWING A planned takeover of its parent Stinnes AG by Deutsche Bahn (DB), the Ger...
Novozymes A/S has taken over the majority of InterBio's business, which includes mic...
Three Japanese companies, Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Asahi Kasei Corp. and Idemitsu ...
THE POLYSTYRENE market remains firm and 2002 is shaping up as a powerful comeback ye...
ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES SEEM to have done little to dent business at the Rotterdam Mun...
George Trent has been promoted to director of manufacturing of Degussa Corp. Mr. Tre...
Rhett R. Atkins has been appointed president, CEO and to the board of directors of E...
IBM has acquired all the shares of Metamerge, a provider of directory integration so...
GIVAUDAN IS looking high and low for new flavors and ingredients, traversing the glo...
ANDRX CORP. saw its shares slip in late June on a supportive advisory panel vote by ...
KERR-McGEE Chemical LLC and affiliates are raising their prices for Tronox titanium ...
EUROPEAN petrochemical and bulk polymer producers hope to raise their prices as high...
AFTER MONTHS OF speculation on possible buyers for the major European oilseed proces...
Gilad S. Gordon has joined FeRx Inc. as vice president of medical affairs. Dr. Gordo...
AN INDUSTRY group said last week that the US Court of Federal Claims has granted its...
The Cyber Security Information Sharing Forum for the Chemicals Sector, formed as a d...
June propylene contracts climbed I cent, bringing the polymer-grade price to 21.75 c...
BTX Following the collapse of a cooling tower at Shell Chemical's Deer Park, Tex., f...
ANDRX Corp. and Biovail Corp. have executed a binding settlement, resolving with pre...
DSM has developed a soil remediation technology that enables contaminants to be remo...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a rule that would require som...
A. Schulman Inc.'s board of directors has approved a plan to build a $7.4 million ma...
LAST WEEK brought new proof that no company is immune to the productivity slowdown p...
Edward F. Schnipper has been appointed president and CEO of CellGate Inc. Dr. Schnip...
Mark Augustine has joined the US equity research department of Credt Suisse First Bo...
China is undergoing a period of if momentous change following its recent membership ...
Although the market for flat panel displays was down in 2001, a casualty of the poor...
ROHM and HAAS Company's plastics additives business is increasing prices for its Acr...
ROCHE and GILEAD SCIENCES Inc. received European Commission (EC) approval to market ...
STYRENE July styrene contracts have been nominated at 3c. to 4c. per pound. Much of ...
E.ON'S ACQUISITION of Ruhrgas, Germany's largest gas distributor, has been approved ...
Huntsman Tioxide has completed its acquisition of AECI's 40 percent minority holding...
CLARIANT WILL expand its specialty chemicals production in Mexico with a newly commi...
AT THE TWILIGHT of the much anticipated second quarter earnings season, there is cau...
The German cities of Cologne and Bonn are situated in one of the richest economic ar...
John C. Pottage has joined Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. as senior director of drug...
GE Plastics, a division of General Electric Company, will transfer its Asia Pacific ...
Francisco Partners, a technology buyout fund, has agreed to buy General Electric Com...
SIEGFRIED, the Zofingen, Switzerland-based manufacturer of active pharmaceutical ing...
VIGON International Inc. has expanded its strategic partnership with the basic ingre...
THE MARKET for iron oxide pigments is strengthening as the economy recovers from las...
Ubichem has commissioned a new pilot plant in Budapest, Hungary, to manufacture adva...
AKZO NOBEL made a pair of moves last week to strengthen its paints and coatings busi...
Emile Farhan has been promoted to senior director of chemistry and scientific affair...
These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise specified. These listings are based...
Petrochemicals Benzene $150 gal. Butadiene ...
Although demand for phenol remains stable, a price increase of 6 cents to 7 cents fo...
CHLORALKALI Contract pricing in both caustic soda and chlorine have experienced cons...
AMGEN Inc. has completed its acquisition of Immunex Corp. Under the terms of the acq...
SIEGFRIED Group recorded a 26 percent increase in sales to SFr 204 million ($138 mil...
CONSTRUCTION OF Conoco Inc.'s $125 million new technology carbon fibers production f...
Ferro Corp. says it will post higher than expected underlying earnings of 35 cents t...
FOLLOWING A cooling tower collapse at Shell Chemical's Deer Park, Tex., facility, th...
Steve Nathanson joins Tessenderlo Davison Chemicals LLC as vice president and genera...
Stephen Alberstadt has been promoted to industry manager for rubber, plastics and ad...
BASED TN KREMS, Austria, the newly formed Krems Chemie Chemical Services GmbH (KCCS)...
As specialty chemical producers assemble next week at Semicon West (Wafer Processing...
GREAT LAKES Chemical Corp. will increase the price of its Great Lakes DE-83R (decabr...
JOHNSON & JOHNSON received a nonapprovable letter from the FDA for its schizophr...
BTX Benzene spot prices jumped significantly last week with the July spot price reac...
SNPE'S ISOCHEM resumed fine chemicals production at Toulouse, France, last week as i...
PQ Corp. has acquired the silicates business of Kemira Chemicals Inc. located in For...
AKZO NOBEL Surface Chemistry (ANSC) sees its recent acquisition of Crompton Corp.'s ...
Charles Baisden, manager of project development division for the National Gas compan...
WESTERN AUSTRALIA IS a world-class natural gas province with over 100Tcf of gas in o...
Jiro Okada has been appointed vice president of Asian affairs of Celanese AG. Mr. Ok...
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Honeywell Pharm...
Reforms in corporate reporting governance continue to be key issues in the post-Enro...
Baerlocher USA in increasing its entire metallic stearates price, effective July 1 o...
THE AUTO CATALYST market is seeing some unexpected competition from a privately held...
THE MARKET for styrene-butadiene (SB) latex is under pressure because of a run-up in...
DuPont Fluoroproducts has reached an agreement with China Nuclear Honghua Specialty ...
CHEMSPEC EUROPE, held in Basel, Switzerland, last week, was again home to fine and s...
Sid Oakley has joined Boehme Filatex Inc. has sales manager of Nova specialty chemic...
Borealis's first third-party license for its Borstar technology is now operational a...
LORATADINE/PSEUDOEPHEDRINE SULFATE IMPAX Laboratories Inc. has been granted ten...
THE DOW EMULSION POLYMERS business is increasing its prices for styrene/butadiene (S...
The Monsanto Company and Tokyo-based Nissan Chemical Industries Ltd. have signed a d...
SYMYX TECHNOLOGIES Inc. has unrolled a new component to its business strategy: an in...
Personal income in the US increased $22.5 billion or 0.3 percent, and disposable per...
BUTANEDIOL BASF Corp. will raise its off-list price for 1,4-butanediol by 7c. per po...
Though the chemical industry has always been concerned with the security and safety ...
DUPONT Fluoroproducts has increased prices in the US for its Freon 22 and Suva 134a ...
SEVERAL RUSSIAN and Central and Eastern European (CEE) oil and petrochemical compani...
Croda International PLC has announced its withdrawal from the textile chemicals, sol...
THE DEPARTMENT of Justice (DoJ) last week issued a 12-step assessment tool to help c...
Raymond Lee has been promoted to treasurer of the North American services finance te...
SENATE DEMOCRATS have introduced legislation that would add a prescription drug bene...
THE NORTH American soda ash market has been characterized as balanced to a bit tight...
JOHNSON Polymer is increasing the prices of its acrylic and styrene acrylic emulsion...
TWIN RIVERS Technologies LP will increase prices for all whole cut and fractionated ...
AKZO Nobel functional chemicals is increasing the price of ethanol and ethylene amin...
AN AGREEMENT between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and two chemical comp...
THE MARKETS for aciylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and styrene acrylonitrile (SAN...
SHARES OF Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) were up slightly last week based on a m...
Aventis SA plans to sell part of its osteoporosis research unit to Warburg Pincus, a...
Amvac Chemical Corp., a subsidiary of American Vanguard Corp., has acquired the US F...
THE AMERICAN Chemistry Council's (ACC) board of directors has approved a new securit...
Thomas E. Rathjen has been hired as vice president of investor relations of Genencor...
Degussa has appointed Lintech International to distribute in much of the Mid-Atlanti...
A SURVEY of over 300 European companies conducted by Taylor Nelson Sofres for KPMG L...
Cognis's care chemicals business has introduced a product range of high quality plan...
Ferro Corp,. is increasing the price of several of its products, effective July 1 or...
Formol Y Derivatlos SA will increase the price of paraformaldehyde by $100 per metri...
BAYER CROPSCIENCE, formed last week through Bayer AG's [euro]7.25 billion ($6.8 bill...
Great Lakes Chemical Corp. has entered into a comprehensive agreement with DuPont Fl...
Nicole S. Williams has been appointed to the board of directors of Orchid BioScience...
Kobe Steel Ltd. and Belgium's Solvay SA have agreed to jointly enter the polyvinyl c...
PPD Inc. has acquired Complete Software Solutions Inc. (CSS), a privately held techn...
Pricing had softened during the first quarter but has since remained flat. Eroding m...
The June range for styrene is 35 cents to 37 cents following contract settlements in...
DESPITE CRITICISM by environmental activists, President George W Bush and administra...
WAXES Clariant has launched a wax for UV paints, available in two physical forms und...
THE TEXAS Supreme Court has agreed to hear a potentially precedent-setting case on t...