Stories Collection
- Dow Chemical Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary Union Carbide Corp. (UCC),...
- CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM was the order of the day at the Federation of Societies of Coating...
- Kemira Agro, the largest subsidiary of holding company Kemira Oyj, has sold 20 perce...
- US real gross domestic product in the US increased 3.2 percent in the third. quarter...
- David M. Evjen
David M. Evjen has been named CEO of Technologene Inc. Mr. Evjen...
- Robert P. Rennie
Robert P. Rennie, divisional director of medical microbiology ...
- HYDROGEN PEROXIDE Pricing in the hydrogen peroxide market softened earlier in the ye...
- The top North American distributors look to next year for recovery as tighter margin...
- AVENTIS Pasteur will invest $150 million in its industrial capacity in the US and Fr...
- CRUDE SULFATE TURPENTINE (CST) is holding firm at 50 cents per gallon, its price unc...
- BTX December benzene contracts were nominated at $1.50 to $1.55 per gallon, well abo...
- VALSPAR CORP. posted a 16 percent gain in fiscal fourth quarter (ending October 25) ...
- Engelhard Corp. is doubling its global manufacturing capacity for Lynx polyolefin ca...
- US AND EUROPEAN antitrust authorities have launched a joint investigation into alleg...
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to allow certain "essent...
- DuPont Fuel Cells and DuPont Taiwan Ltd. have signed definitive agreements with Asia...
- DEGUSSA CORP., the North America operation of the specialty chemicals giant Degussa ...
- DUPONT DOW ELASTOMERS' new generation Viton fluoroelastomers made with Advanced Poly...
- IF SUCCESSFUL, recent price increases by FMC BioPolymer and International Specialty ...
- HYDROGEN BOC Canada Ltd. has commissioned a major compressed gas facility at its Mag...
- Habib M. Nasirullah has joined Andrx Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Andrx Corp., as vice pr...
- Chris C. Dick has been appointed vice president of business development for Elite La...
- Altair Nanotechnologies has entered into an evaluation agreement with Avireco USA LL...
- THE CHAIRMAN of the Senate Agriculture Committee is objecting to the biotechnology i...
- TESSENDERLO's sales increased by 11 percent to [euro]480 million ($480 million) in t...
- GENOMICS FIRM CuraGen Corp. is realigning its drug development efforts to focus on m...
- Crompton Corp. has sold its Petromix soluble oil base product line to UK-based Polar...
- Mine Safety Appliances Company is exploring strategic options for subsidiary Callery...
- DOW CHEMICAL Company has further expanded its capabilities in the development and ma...
- The polyethylene market appears weaker than in the first half, but it remains fairly...
- Christopher Patusky, deputy director, chief operating officer and a member of the Un...
- Rolf Classon has been appointed the new chairman of the board of management of the f...
- Aspen Technology Inc. plans to significantly enhance its Aspen Engineering Suite by ...
- Church & Dwight Co. Inc. will increase off-list pricing for all USP, food and te...
- SINGLE-SITE Catalysts LLC and PTC Organics Inc. have partnered to commercialize a pr...
- THE MARKETS for polypropylene and polyethylene appear to have crested and are flat o...
- TOTALFINAELF plans to sell to Bain Capital, the private investment company, its Sigm...
- PROCESS MANUFACTURERS and software vendors that serve the chemical and allied indust...
- Shell's investment in Pulau Bukom more than 40 years ago marked the beginnings of a ...
- Ian Rodricks has been appointed marketing manager for the specialty additives busine...
- Jeremy Guy A. Davis has been appointed to chairman of the board of Gradipore. Mr. Da...
- Praxair Inc. has. introduced ClearCross Inc.'s Chemmate gas mixture material safety ...
- Economic activity in the US manufacturing sector declined in September, according to...
- HOVIONE HAS OPENED its Technology Transfer Center (TTC) in East Windsor, N.J. The 30...
- ROCHE Holding AG and Trimeris Inc. report that data from a Phase III study show Fuze...
- DEGUSSA AG will raise its prices for pigment carbon blacks (furnace carbon black, 7 ...
- ELAN CORP. took a major step last week in a disposal of assets to pay its $1.5 billi...
- Spurred by strong demand for bisphenol A (BPA), LG Petrochemical Ltd. will invest 20...
- IN A SHOCKING reversal of previous guidance, Dow Chemical Company says it will miss ...
- CELANESE IS looking at further opportunities to strengthen its acetyls business foll...
- AIR FREIGHT FORWARDERS
^ CENDIAN CORPORATION
BAG FILLING
Abrachem L...
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UBENIMEX
Goyo Trading Co., Ltd.
UBIDECARENONE (Coenzyme Q 10)
...
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PACLI TAXEL See Taxal
PADIMATE O, USP
# www.spectrumchemical.com,...
- K
KAINIC ACID
BioVectra dcl
KALAMSI (Citrofortunella Mitis)
M...
- rh-GCSF
Xenos BioResources, Inc.
G SALT
* ACETO CORP.
GABAPEN...
- BISMUTH NITRATE PENTAHYDRATE
ALFA AESAR-JOHNSON MATTHEY
CANTON CHEM, INC....
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ABRASIVES
Electro Abrasives Corp.
ABSCISlC ACID
Advance Sci...
- Dick Larson has been promoted to manager of administration and finance for MGP Ingre...
- The Chemical Heritage Foundation has announced that Kathryn Hach-Darrow will receive...
- Prices & People
Week ending October 25, 2002
These chemical prices are list...
- SAP AG reported third quarter sales of [euro]1.7 billion ($1.66 billion), up from [e...
- Although demand continues to be flat to down in major consumption markets, supply is...
- POLYPROPYLENE has returned to strong growth after weak years in 2000 and 2001. With ...
- Producers recently reached a two-month settlement whereby prices rolled over in Augu...
- NYLON DSM Engineering Plastics will raise its prices for Akulon nylon 6 products by ...
- Suppliers of coatings resins, faced with restrictions on the emission of volatile or...
- THE FATTY alcohols market is feeling the effects of sliding prices because of overca...
- A COALITION of activist groups filed a lawsuit last week charging that a federal rul...
- BOC GROUP is taking a cautious approach in its attempt to become a player in the wat...
- POTASH CORP. of Saskatchewan last week reported mixed results for its third quarter....
- Lonza Ltd. and Lonza Inc., subsidiaries of Lonza Group Ltd., have charged five compa...
- SCHERING-PLOUGH Corp. (SHP) posted a 29 percent decline in net income to $429 millio...
- ONCE A darling of Wall Street in the specialty chemicals sector, OM Group Inc. now f...
- CHEMOGENOMICS: New Approaches to Toxicology and Drug Discovery, hosted by Iconix Pha...
- Edward Ovsenik has joined Reichhold Inc. as assistant general counsel. Mr. Ovsenik i...
- Steven R. Drew has been appointed strategic planning manager of Elementis Specialtie...
- Honeywell Plastics has launched www.honeywell-plastics.com detailing over 500 grades...
- While the US economy has shown signs of improvement, it is still operating below its...
- INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY Products Inc. has rolled out a new preservative, Nuosept 44,...
- Green Tree Chemical Technologies Inc. is increasing off-list prices for industrial n...
- Zaclon Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, will increase the pricing of zinc chloride an...
- CARGILL Inc. has introduced Progressive Baker, a new line of shortenings and oils to...
- TRANSKARYOTIC Therapies Inc. (TKT) has encountered a hurdle in its race with Genzyme...
- The House of Representatives energy bill is expected to include A 5 billion gallon r...
- SERONO SA of Switzerland, Europe's largest biotechnology company, has reached a coll...
- Solutia Inc. says third quarter underlying earnings are expected to be around 11 cen...
- SCHERING-PLOUGH Corp. (SHP) says the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is inv...
- LAWMAKERS WORKING to resolve differences between separate energy bills passed by the...
- Jim Fisher, president and CEO of IBMA Inc., Hilton Head Island, S.C., states it is t...
- BASELL MAY speed the expansion of its new Spherizone circulating fluid-bed polypropy...
- Cognis Corp. has resumed production of alkanolamides, amine oxides, amphoteric surfa...
- Sigma-Aldrich has released the latest Aldrich Handbook of Fine Chemicals and Laborat...
- Whether individually or by committee, chief financial officers (CFOs) are largely re...
- Clearbridge Inc., a provider of managed solutions for supply chain integration, has ...
- Jurong Island offers companies sound infrastructure with security features, stabilit...
- Patrick Poty has been named vice president and general manager of Noveon Inc. Mr. Po...
- Charles J. Casamento, president, CEO and chairman of Questor Pharmaceuticals Inc., h...
- Week ending October 4, 2002.
These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise s...
- CAN CONVENTIONAL investor relations (IR) practices actually work in enhancing stock ...
- POLYMER Chemistry Innovations (PCI) has begun operations at its new Polymer Chemistr...
- NOVARTIS AG and GENENTECH Inc. caused a buzz on Wall Street with study abstracts ahe...
- BASELL USA INC. is unveiling a range of measures to strengthen its position in polyp...
- NOVA CHEMICALS sees an opportunity to further expand its styrenics and olefins asset...
- Bayer AG has sold chemical additives business Rhein Chemie to US-based private equit...
- COMPETITION in fine chemicals has reached a fever pitch, as pipeline-challenged phar...
- THE THREAT OF war in the Middle East hangs over the petrochemicals industry as it mo...
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XANTHAN GUM See Gum Xanthan
XANTHATES
Complex Quimica, S.A. DE C....
- SODIUM CASEINATE (Casein, Sodium Complex)
AMERICAN CASEIN CO.
Prestige Te...
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DACARBAZINE
Flavine North America, Inc.
DAMAR BATU
Gehring-...
- Bo Yang has been named general manager of China of Sartomer Company. Mr. Yang is res...
- David Duncan has been appointed chief financial officer of La Jolla Pharmaceutical C...
- POLYETHYLENE is slowing after a strong first half. After pushing through three price...
- Negotiations for fourth quarter prices are underway, with producers looking for a 5 ...
- INK consumption is projected to grow by only 3.1 percent annually over the next five...
- EPS/CCA, a supplier of emulsions, resins and colorants to the coatings and construct...
- MERCK & CO. Inc. posted earnings per share (EPS) of 83 cents for the third quart...
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) finished cleanups at 42 Superfund sites in...
- Spot benzene prices continue to slide and reached a low of $1.14 per gallon. Toluene...
- [TiO.sub.2] The market for titanium dioxide remains strong, and producers continue t...
- CUMENE August cumene prices have slipped 1.50 cents to roughly 24.75 cents perpound ...
- WAX Chemcentral Corp.'s joint ventures, Rishichem and Dovechemcentral, have formed a...
- Great Lakes Chemical Corp., as of September 23, will increase the price of all grade...
- ACAMBIS PLC has produced its first doses of final, filled and kitted smallpox vaccin...
- ACRYLIC monomer consumption in the US during 2001 totaled roughly 5.8 billion pounds...
- EUROPEAN CHLORINE producers hope that next month European Union (EU) governments wil...
- BBCA Biochemical and Brussels-based Galactic have signed a joint venture agreement t...
- HONEYWELL'S FLUORINE products business has opened a world-scale plant in Geismar, La...
- Chemical Profile
PHOSPHORUS PENTASULFIDE September 16, 2002
PRODUCER ...
- Patti Barring has been promoted to vice president of sales for North America of Tara...
- THE FOOD and Drug Administration (FDA) is recommending that manufacturers label medi...
- [TiO.sub.2] DuPont Titanium Technologies is raising its prices for Ti-Pure titanium ...
- THE US IS trying to catch up on its European counterpart as several investments for ...
- THE BUSH administration has released draft guidance to help biotechnology companies ...
- ACETIC ACID Millennium Chemicals Inc. is raising its prices for vinyl acetate monome...
- SENATOR Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) may modify his chemical plant security bill to address ...
- Dow Chemical Company will exit the ethyl acetate business in Europe. Sekab (Svensk E...
- HOUSTON--Ineos Phenol has declared force majeure on the production of phenol and ace...
- Avery Spunt has joined the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy as competency ...
- Steve Cullen has been appointed business development manager for performance chemica...
- THE NATIONAL Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA) says it disagrees with th...
- SAP AG reports that the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies has selected mySAP Ente...
- While custom manufacturing for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermed...
- NANOMAT INC. has developed an aluminum oxynitride (AION) nanopowder, a high-performa...
- RIGEL PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. has moved R112, a mast cell inhibitor to treat allergic r...
- GENERICS DRUGMAKERS are calling on the brand-name pharmaceutical industry to halt it...
- DEGUSSA's feed additives business unit plans to build a 30,000 metric ton-per-year L...
- Bayer AG has commercialized a new chiral hydrogenation technology to meet the demand...
- DUPONT SAID last Tuesday that it would continue defending against pending asbestos l...
- September-October 2002
HERBALS and BOTANICALS CONFERENCE, organized by Leatherh...
- In the light of gloomy predictions at the start of the year, the chemical industry c...
- Chemical Profile
Phosphorus Trichloride September 23, 2002.
PRODUCER ...
- Del Kubeldis has been hired to manage American Geosciences Inc.'s environmental and ...
- Cargill Inc. is giving Iowa State University's (ISU) College of Agriculture an enter...
- Petrochemicals
Benzene 1.25 gal.
Butadiene ...
- Elizabeth A. Potts has been named vice president and general manager of Ashland Spec...
- Altair Nanotechnologies has received its second US patent "Processing Aqueous C...
- USi, an application service provider, reports Sunoco has completed the migration of ...
- Vulcan Chemicals has increased the off-schedule price for all grades of caustic pota...
- DOW CHEMICAL Company has increased its North American price for Flexol plasticizer e...
- ALTANA AG postponed its European filing for Rofiumilast--a selective phosphodiestera...
- DSM HAS moved to transform itself into a predominantly life sciences products compan...
- Praxair Inc. has finalized an agreement with BP PLC to supply BP with hydrogen at it...
- IOI CORP. BERHAD, a major investment holding and palm oil player in Malaysia, will a...
- Cognos, a provider of business intelligence software, and Manugistics Group Inc., a ...
- Charles T. Nomides has been appointed chief operating officer of Barrier Therapeutic...
- Douglas M. Baker has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of Ecola...
- PRICES & PEOPLE
Week ending August 30, 2002
These chemical prices are list,...
- STEPAN Company's Neobee medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) can now be substituted for...
- PESTICIDES THAT pose potential health risks to children are still widely used in pub...
- ASHLAND SPECIALITY CHEMICAL COMPANY is increasing the price of its polyester resins,...
- THE RECORD floods that swept through Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) last month hav...
- JUST FOUR YEARS out of the gate and with the backing of private venture capital firm...
- THE BOC GROUP says that its industrial gases company in Poland, BOC Gazy, has signed...
- POLYETHYLENE has had increases similar to those for polypropylene. Polyethylene cont...
- BUTADIENE August prices settled up a penny at 24 cents per pound. Initial September ...
- POS PILOT Plant Corp. of Saskatoon, Canada, will soon offer enhanced and improved mi...
- Dow Chemical Company is, effective immediately or as contracts allow, increasing the...
- BAYER AG and CuraGen Corp. have devised a new technology, the "Predictive Toxic...
- TICONA IS introducing Celanex 2000-K, an economical grade of polybutylene terephthal...
- THE OCCUPATIONAL Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed $313,500 in fi...
- BASF Corp. says it should have no trouble supplying its customers following an explo...
- DUPONT TEXTILES and Interiors (DTI) is launching a [pounds sterling]30 million ($46....
- Erin E. Quinn has been appointed vice president of human resources of Therion Biolog...
- Stephen P. Adams has joined Ricerca Biosciences as vice president of drug developmen...
- Prices & People
Week ending September 13, 2002
These chemical prices are li...
- DUPONT TEXTILES and Interiors (DTI) is projecting above trend line growth for its ny...
- Observers with an interest in the evolution of Responsible Care are following the ne...
- SENATE DEMOCRATS insisted last week that Congress can juggle several issues at once ...
- THE FUTURE OF propylene oxide (PO) technology is near as several producers work to d...
- PLANNING to become "the top supplier of the market," Dow Coming Electronic...
- Merck KGaA's affiliate Liphatech SA will sell its global rodenticide business, inclu...
- IN A SURPRISE move with broad implications for the global chemical industry, Saudi A...
- Philippe Remes has been appointed vice president of investor relations and to the bo...
- David Briscoe has been appointed vice president of business development and to the b...
- Week ending September 27, 2002
These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise...
- Well on its way to becoming a pure-play life science manufacturer, Cambrex Corp. is ...
- THE INCREASING development of large molecule, biological-based drugs such as peptide...
- CROMPTON CORP. Citing a market preference for vegetable- versus animal-derived slip ...
- James J. O'Brien has been named president, chief operating officer and a member of t...