News Collection

1. Sasol North America has agreed to access Planalytics Inc.'s Gas Buyer, a Web-deliver...
2. IN THE diammonium phosphate (DAP) market, overall pricing has strengthened as the re...
3. The European detergents industry is under pressure not only economically, but also o...
4. SOYBEAN PROCESSING margins in the US are unlikely to improve for the rest of the 200...
5. DOW PLASTICS is raising its European prices for engineering plastics resins because ...
6. BOREALIS IS planning to cut its R&D and technical services staff by as much as 2...
7. DEGUSSA AG plans to raise its global capacity for specialty methacrylate monomers du...
8. David H. Schubert has been appointed vice president of regulatory affairs and qualit...
9. Sam Blood has joined Cedar Chemical Corp. as its president. Mr. Blood has 25 years o...
10. Management Dynamics Inc., a provider of full-function tariff and contract management...
11. THE PAST YEAR was a gem for Siegfried Holding Ltd. of Switzerland. In a close repeat...
12. JOJOBA OIL Desert Whale Jojoba Company Inc. has added water-soluble jojoba to their ...
13. ENJOYING HIGH demand, but struggling with undercapacity, the market for additives us...
14. SCHERING-PLOUGH Corp. (SHP) has been caught off guard by the quicker-than-expected c...
15. THE CZECH GOVERNMENT has given the go-ahead to a second attempt to sell its 63 perce...
16. Ashland Specialty Chemical Company, a division of Ashland Inc., has expanded its aut...
17. ADDING TO the earnings misery of the chemical industry, Ferro and Minerals Technolog...
18. David P. Wright has been appointed president and chief operating officer of GenVec I...
19. Carl A. Jennings, executive vice president of BASF Corp. and president of the compan...
20. Ironside Technologies Inc., a provider of electronic commerce solutions for the manu...
21. NATIONAL STARCH Personal Care has introduced Amaze XT, a physically modified xanthan...
22. MEDIMMUNE Inc. and Wyeth report that an FDA advisory panel has recommended approval ...
23. SEVERAL KEY developments in the past month have cracked open the market for anti-TNF...
24. Univar NV, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has announced plans to split its Nor...
25. IMC Global Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to sell its sodium bicarbonate ass...
26. EASTMAN CHEMICAL Company will miss big in the fourth quarter with an expected loss o...
27. SAP AG, Microsoft Corp, IBM Corp., BEA Systems Inc., RSA Security Inc., and VeriSign...
28. Celanese Chemicals is increasing the off-list selling prices for vinyl acetate monom...
29. EASTMAN Chemical Company has revised a previously announced global price increase. I...
30. CELANESE has completed its [euro]147 million ($152 million) acquisition of Clariant'...
31. Monsanto Company CEO Hendrik A. Verfaillie is the latest casualty of poor financial ...
32. LG Chem Ltd. has raised its acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) capacity to 800,00...
33. CHIMICA D'AGOSTTNO SpA has ceased negotiations with Dow Poliuretani Italia Srl over ...
34. February 2003 INK JET PRINTING DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE, sponsored by Information ...
35. Claes Glassell has resigned from his position as president, chief operating officer ...
36. Engelhard Corp. has formed an alliance with Nippon Sheet Glass to develop and market...
37. webMethods Inc., a provider of integration software, reports it will provide integra...
38. PRICING FOR nitrogen fertilizers in North America has been steadily increasing, clim...
39. After weathering the economic downturn and internal restructuring, several of the to...
40. Engelhard Corp. has, as of January 1, raised the prices for its kaolin-based pigment...
41. DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY's epoxy products and intermediates business is raising its off-...
42. THE POSSIBILITY of a one-year delay in the introduction of European Union (EU) legis...
43. NOVARTIS AG of Switzerland spent around $2.1 billion in 2002 to boost its stake in r...
44. Sri Mosur has been promoted to vice president of global strategic business developme...
45. Susan M. Stalnecker has been appointed vice president of government and consumer mar...
46. SAP AG, a provider of enterprise resource planning systems and e-business solutions,...
47. DUPONT, through its subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., has established ...
48. INTROGEN Therapeutics Inc. reports positive data from a phase II trial combining Adv...
49. THE MARKET for vitamin E is expected to grow steadily this year with supply and dema...
50. RHODIA IS ADMITTING it should have communicated better with the local population and...
51. The UCB Group, based in Brussels, Belgium, has acquired the liquid resin graphic art...
52. PROLIGO, a subsidiary of Degussa AG, has expanded its production capacity for oligon...
53. Robert I. Taber joins the scientilic advisory board of Locus Discovery Inc. Mr. Tabe...
54. January-February 2003. LUNCHEON MEETING, Featuring Bruce Fisher, senior vice pr...
55. The Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) and the Chemicals Sector Cyber-Security I...
56. CHARKIT CHEMICAL Corp. of Darien, Conn., has added a new line of 100 percent fruit-d...
57. GENZYME GENERAL posted unaudited 2002 revenues up 10 percent to $1.1 billion on stro...
58. PRODUCERS OF polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are heading into 2003 confident of a solid yea...
59. Solutia Inc. warns it will likely post a loss of20c. per share in the fourth quarter...
60. Genencor International Inc. has acquired Rhodia's brewing and enzyme business for [e...
61. IN A MOVE to improve its operating rates and enhance its position in high-margin gro...
62. Oxford Chemicals Ltd. has established the first direct connection with Celanese Chem...
63. Celanese Chemicals is increasing the selling price for all grades of acetic acid, ac...
64. CLARIANT's life science and electronic chemicals division has, as of January 1, incr...
65. DSM HAS moved to fill a gap in its biopharmaceutical activities by establishing an a...
66. ALTHOUGH SOUTHERN California air quality regulators have voted to phase out the use ...
67. Bayer AG has reached an agreement for a settlement with the US Attorney's Office for...
68. THE US CHEMICAL industry is poised to face another challenging year in 2003. 2...
69. Ari Yeskel has been appointed project manager of Consulting Resources Corp. His most...
70. Richard K. Crump has become the sole CEO of Sterling Chemicals Inc. Mr. Crump will a...
71. Pfizer Inc. plans to divest the FemHRT, Loestrin, and Estrostep women's health produ...
72. SAP AG has launched Enterprise Services Architecture (ESA), a blueprint for complete...
73. UNIQEMA launched a new dry cleaning fluid last August, Washpoint, which is a combina...
74. SUNOCO Inc.'s chemicals business reported $17 million in fourth quarter 2002 earning...
75. Dow Corning Corp. will be increasing the price of eight of its weatherproofing produ...
76. THE MARKET for carbon black improved in 2002 after a weak 2001. Producers and analys...
77. Cambrex Corp. posted underlying profits of $10.4 million in the fourth quarter, mark...
78. ALBEMARLE CORP. has acquired the fuel and lubricant antioxidants business of its for...
79. NYLON 6 pricing remains lackluster. In a range of $1.25 to $1.50 per pound depending...
80. LATE SPOT PRICES CRUDE VEGETABLE OILS * Coconut oil, t.l., N.Y. ...
81. Craig Vail has been appointed South-west field sales manager for Degussa Corp.'s fin...
82. J. Kevin Buchi, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Cephalon Inc., ...
83. Robm and Haas Company is raising its off-list prices for acrylic copolymer emulsions...
84. Dow Chemical Company will increase the selling price of many of its oxygenated solve...
85. NATIONAL STARCH and Chemical Company's personal care unit has introduced Amaze XT, a...
86. A BIOTECHNOLOGY company has agreed to pay the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) mo...
87. DuPont has established a commercial agricultural seed business in China. DuPont's su...
88. Christine Tsingos has been appointed chief financial officer of Bio-Rad Laboratories...
89. Katie Pipkin has been promoted to senior director of investor relations of Dynegy In...
90. Nick J. Caruso has been narned executive vice president and chief financial officer ...
91. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector declined for the third consecutive mon...
92. THE BIOTECHNOLOGY industry has revised its position that plant-made pharmaceutical c...
93. WHEN IT comes to investing in China, large-scale commodity chemical projects funded ...
94. Salvatore J. Guccione Salvatore J. Guccione has been promoted to executive vice...
95. Luke M. Beshar Luke M. Beshar has joined Cambrex Corp. as senior vice president...
96. H.B. Fuller Company, a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of specialty chemicals, w...
97. SODIUM SILICATE Chemical Products Corp. has increased the pricing on sodium silicate...
98. NEATSFOOT OIL REFINERIES Corp., based in Philadelphia, has raised prices on all prod...
99. SCIOS Inc. reported positive Phase III trial data for Natrecor (nesiritide) in renal...
100. ACAMBIS PLC expects that a short delay in in-process batch testing of a smallpox vac...
101. THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) last week approved over-the-counter (OTC) sal...
102. SNPE will withdraw from its venture with Dow Chemical Company to produce phosgene de...
103. Richard S. Kent Richard S. Kent has been appointed president and CEO of Serenex...
104. AVENTIS has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Taxotere (docet...
105. DIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE Pricing in North America during the fourth quarter has declined...
106. METHYLENE DIISOCYANATE is balanced and projected to grow at a 5 to 6 percent clip in...
107. Data Systems International Inc. (DSI), a technology solution provider, has formed a ...
108. Chemical Profile: METHANOL December 16-30, 2002 PRODUCER ...
109. John A. Spears has been appointed chairman and CEO of Intradigm Corp. He has more th...
110. Darrell E. Borne has been named chief financial officer of First Horizon Pharmaceuti...
111. PMP Fermentation Products Inc. has completed the first stage expansion of its Peoria...
112. GENENTECH Inc. and Idec Pharmaceuticals Corp. announced data from a randomized, mult...
113. A FORECASTED pickup in demand next year and an increase in pricing for canola in Wes...
114. DIOSYNTH, AKZO Nobel's contract manufacturing business, has substantially bolstered ...
115. AN ENVIRONMENTAL group and several unions are asking a federal court to ban the use ...
116. AFTER A LIFETIME in the chemical industry, Marvin Schlanger, CEO of Resolution Perfo...
117. IN A HISTORIC move that could set a national precedent, Southern California air qual...
118. Jerry Treppel has been appointed to the board of directors of Able Laboratories Inc....
119. PROPYLENE GLYCOL Dow Chemical Company will increase prices for industrial, food and ...
120. THE MAJORITY of literature about industrial brands--not that there is a vast amount-...
121. POLYETHYLENE Several producers have given up on implementing their most recent price...
122. RICERCA Biosciences LLC has obtained the exclusive worldwide rights from Eli Lilly &...
123. CIBA Specialty Chemicals has launched a wood photo-stabilization additive that inhib...
124. THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) proposed new policy on the assessment of chemicals is putt...
125. Sunoco Chemicals has idled its aniline and diphenylamine (DPA) production facility a...
126. SHARES OF Eastman Chemical Company fell $2.93 (7 percent) to $36.67 on the heels of ...
127. DINNER MEETING: Who's in Control? -- The Prospect or the Consultant? sponsored by As...
128. Nicholas Abramovich Nicholas Abramovich has been appointed Midwest field sales ...
129. PGPhillips & Associates Inc. of Southern Pines, N.C., a management consulting fi...
130. SODIUM CHLORATE Sterling Pulp Chemicals Ltd. has increased the price of sodium chlor...
131. MOST ANALYSTS and observers regard the use or even creation of tiny robots as one of...
132. METALLIC STEARATES Ferro Corp.'s polymer additives division will increase the price ...
133. Ti[O.sub.2] Millennium Chemicals Inc. will raise its prices on titanium dioxide (Ti[...
134. MOL PLANS to spend $500 million in capital expenditure in petrochemicals over the ne...
135. BP WILL expand ethylene capacity at its Chocolate Bayou, Tex., facility by 295,000 t...
136. THE SCOURGE OF unending asbestos litigation lingers over the chemical industry, weig...
137. INDSPEC CHEMICAL Corp. has developed Ulti-Pro 100, a resorcinol-based functional pro...
138. Dow Chemical Company's UCAR Emulsion Systems business unit is raising its off-list p...
139. ROHM AND HAAS Company will increase off-list prices for all vinyl acetate-based prod...
140. TOLUENE DIISOCYANATE is tight and threatens to become short because of production pr...
141. STYRENE A 21c. increase in benzene contracts is expected to boost December styrene c...
142. Klaus Schollmeier has been appointed CEO of Graffinity Pharmaceuticals AG, effective...
143. PRICES & PEOPLE Week ending December 13, 2002 These chemical prices are lis...
144. BTX Markets for all three products have been quiet. Benzene was last trading in a ra...
145. JOHNSON MATTHEY Chemicals has begun offering a range of selective oxidation catalyst...
146. DuPont Textiles and Interiors will increase list and off-list prices for several of ...
147. BASF SAYS its leadership in eco-efficient paints and systems partnerships has helped...
148. Galen Holdings PLC's subsidiary Galen (Chemicals) Ltd. has entered into a conditiona...
149. Richard F. Syron, chairman and CEO of Thermo Electron Corp., will assume a newly cre...
150. Stanley C. Penzotti has joined Anagen Therapeutics Inc. as vice president of pharmac...
151. Airgas Inc. has acquired Welding Metals Inc., a Detroit-based independent distributo...
152. J.D. Edwards has announced a new independent software vendor (ISV) program to expand...
153. Pharmaceutical companies, their product pipelines dominated by single-enantiomer dru...
154. US SOYBEAN oil prices have steadily climbed this year, and they are expected to cont...
155. ABBOTT Laboratories has sold its pancreatic enzyme line of products to Axcan Pharma ...
156. BAYER CropScience says new product launches will add more than [euro]450 million to ...
157. INDUSTRIAL GAS company Messer Griesheim says its strategy of divesting noncore busin...
158. The German and Norwegian competition authorities have inspected the premises of Degu...
159. Chemical Profile AMMONIA November 25, 2002 PRODUCER ...
160. Alan F. Rich Alan F. Rich has been named vice president of sales and marketing ...
161. Samantha Hetherington Samantha Hetherington has joined TRI-K Industries Inc. as...
162. Peter van Hoorn Peter van Hoorn has been appointed president of the Cambrex Bi...
163. STATE-OWNED Mexican oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has shut down all produ...
164. webMethods Inc., a provider of integration software, has formed a collaboration with...
165. Plastics ABS (spot) .75 lb. HDPE, inj. .46-.4...
166. PURIFIED PHOSPHORIC ACID (PPA) Pricing in the PPA industry has been flat during the ...
167. STYRENE November contracts remain unresolved, although some who have settled report ...
168. BTX December benzene contract nominations came out at $1.50 to $1.55 per gallon. The...
169. ROHM AND HAAS Company is, effective November 18, implementing an 8 to 9 percent acro...
170. ROSUVASTATIN AstraZeneca PLC plans a major study next year to determine if its stati...
171. ENI IS STEPPING UP its drive to offload parts of its petrochemicals business with th...
172. Jagdish Sheth, the Charles H. Kellstadt Joel Jones professor of marketing at Emory U...
173. Fritz Bittenbender has been appointed president of the Pennsylvania Biotechnology As...
174. Hyseq Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to acquire Variagenics Inc. in a definitive me...
175. SAP AG has introduced automated, internet-based e-recruiting capabilities in its hum...
176. SB LATEX--ROHMNOVA, a joint venture between Rohm and Haas Company and Omnova Solutio...
177. ERUCAMIDE Croda Universal has increased pricing for its erucamide slip agents market...
178. ASTRAZENECA PLC has received its first European approval for Crestor (rosuvastatin),...
179. INVITROGEN Corp. has signed a worldwide exclusive agreement with Novozymes A/S to di...
180. ASAHI KASEI Corp. is withdrawing from the acrylic fibers market. The company will st...
181. NEW RULES that would help speed generic drugs to market, together with federal enfor...
182. Chemical Profile Benzene Novembre 11, 2002 PRODUCER ...
183. Douglas E. Rogers has been elected to the board of directors of Charles River Labora...
184. SAP AG has enhanced its mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) solution by expand...
185. Eastman Chemical Company has selected ClearResearch from ClearForest, a provider of ...
186. THE NORTH American sodium silicate market has experienced a slight improvement in de...
187. LUTEIN Cognis Nutrition and Health, which holds the trademark for Xangold natural lu...
188. MARGARINE Swedish specialty fats manufacturer Karlshamns has acquired Raisio's indus...
189. AMGEN Inc. delayed by three months a business review meeting in order to provide &qu...
190. COOKSON reported a 3 percent drop in sales to [pounds sterling]173 million ($270 mil...
191. GE Toshiba Silicones, a joint venture between General Electric of USA and Toshiba of...
192. David Stephon has joined Adolor Corp. as a senior director of quality assurance. Mr....
193. Carole S. Ben-Maimon has been elected to the board of directors of Barr Laboratories...
194. PPG Industries Inc. has selected Bensenville, Ill.-based Brant Technologies to distr...
195. Eka Chemicals has increased the price of sodium chlorate by $25 per ton in the US an...
196. CLARIANT Pharmaceuticals, a business within the Life Science and Electronic Chemical...
197. Vulcan Chemical will increase pricing of all grades of methylene chloride and perchl...
198. THE $19 BILLION cholesterol market has been jolted by Food and Drug Administration (...
199. Ti[O.sub.2] Kerr-McGee Chemical LLC and affiliates are raising their prices for Tron...