Stories Collection

1. Sabic EuroPetrochemicals will acquire Owens Coming's 50 percent share in StaMax BV, ...
2. AS PART of a restructuring move that is scheduled to generate up to $100 million fro...
3. Steven M. Ruben has been appointed vice president of protein therapeutics at Celera ...
4. Catherine Bonuccelli has been appointed vice president of external scientific affair...
5. CROMPTON Corp. will increase prices for its Hystrene and Industrene lines of behenic...
6. Banc of America Securities analyst Kevin McCarthy has launched coverage of the commo...
7. ERCROS HAS begun construction in Valle de Escombreras, Murcia, southern Spain, of a ...
8. CRI International, with its Houston-based subsidiary Criterion Catalysts and Technol...
9. NEWLY PRIVATIZED in a $134 million buyout of minority public shareholders last Febru...
10. Robert Maes has been appointed polystyrene northern regional sales manager at Atofin...
11. Iain Ferguson has been appointed chief executive and a member of the board of Tate &...
12. As custom manufacturers and drug companies face increased financial pressures, they ...
13. Norman, Fox & Co. will be raising the price of its line of natural soaps effecti...
14. PROPIONATES Niacet Corp. is increasing the list and off-list pricing of calcium prop...
15. SHAREHOLDER pressure on ICI eased last week after Brendan O'Neill resigned as the co...
16. THE AMERICAN Chemistry Council (ACC) has downgraded its projections for the economy ...
17. NOT LONG AGO a darling of Wall Street, Cambrex Corp. saw its shares plunge by more t...
18. PEANUT OIL PRICES are reaching highs not seen since 1997-1998. A combination of tigh...
19. AVENTIS is informing health care professionals of possible muscle weakness in some p...
20. BTX Moderate crude oil and energy prices continue to weigh on benzene pricing. Sever...
21. WACKER CHEMIE GmbH is expanding its activities in Eastern Europe through a long-term...
22. Toshiba Ceramics has developed a photocatalyst titanium dioxide product for painting...
23. EXXONMOBIL Chemical Company and Stone & Webster Inc., a subsidiary of Baton Rogu...
24. James M. Williams has been elected acting chairman of the board of directors at micr...
25. George C. Hillman has been named CEO and has joined the board of directors of Pintex...
26. Zonagen Inc. has engaged CIBC World Markets Corp. to explore strategic alternatives ...
27. AT A TIME when chemical giants are pulling in their horns and streamlining capital e...
28. CELLTECH GROUP PLC upped its stake in Oxford GlycoSciences PLC to a crucial one-half...
29. Chemical Profile Potassium Sulfate April 7, 2003 PRODUCER ...
30. Per Gotfredsen has been appointed technical manager of Fortitech Europe. Mr. Gotfred...
31. DSM Desotech, a producer of ultraviolet-curable materials for glass optical fiber an...
32. IntelliCorp, a technical solutions firm, has completed a NetProcess Fact-based Plann...
33. ACCENTURE and Aspen Technology Inc. have launched the Aspen Performance Scorecard, t...
34. DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY will implement a 9 percent price increase on all polyethylene a...
35. AFTER MONTHS of uncertainty, controversy and delay, Erbitux (cetuximab), the investi...
36. MOVING CLOSER to becoming a major player in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) o...
37. Airgas Inc. has acquired 14 packaged gases and welding hardgoods branches in Florida...
38. THE US petrochemicals industry is struggling with an unprecedented run-up in natural...
39. Feedstock costs, mainly methanol and natural gas, have spurred a number of unusual m...
40. DOW CHEMICAL Company has, as of March 18, increased the price of its Drytech superab...
41. WORLD ETHANOL, a joint venture between Archer Daniels Midland Company and Dow Chemic...
42. FEEDSTOCK COSTS and supply difficulties have sent olefin prices soaring, but margins...
43. CONGRESSIONAL investigators are calling for a national strategy to address chemical ...
44. Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has shuttered its citric acid facility in Ringaskiddy, ...
45. DUPONT IS offering to acquire the 24 percent of DuPont Canada it does not already ow...
46. Paul L.H. Olson Paul L. H. Olson has been elected to the board of directors of ...
47. Matthew Emmens Matthew Emmens has been appointed to the board of directors and ...
48. Air Products snd Chemicals Inc. has added the production of germane ([GeH.sub.4]) an...
49. EasyAsk, a provider of information access software, reports that BASF Corp., the Nor...
50. DUPONT TITANIUM TECHNOLOGIES is raising its prices for Ti-Pure titanium dioxide grad...
51. The value of pharmaceutical mergers and acquisitions declined considerably in 2002 a...
52. SODIUM SILICATES Occidental Chemical Corp. has placed an energy surcharge on all sod...
53. Norac Inc. is increasing the price of its Norox ketone peroxides and blends by l0c. ...
54. Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals will increase the list and off-list price of all grades...
55. DUPONT ENGINEERING POLYMERS is raising North American prices for standard and specia...
56. SOLVAY HAS entered the market for hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) insulation and blowing age...
57. THE CHEMICAL industry expressed disappointment last week over the Supreme Court's 5-...
58. WITH SPRING around the corner, the North American phosphoric acid market has begun t...
59. JLM Industries Inc. began an unplanned maintenance turnaround at its Blue Island, Il...
60. DOWPHARMA, the pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals contract manufacturing busines...
61. Millennium Chemicals Inc. will increase the price of its glacial acetic acid (GAA) a...
62. FEEDSTOCK COSTS continue to pressure acetic acid and its derivatives. Skyrocketing n...
63. LAUNCHED ON March 5, 2002, as Dow Corning Corp.'s web-enabled silicone products busi...
64. General Chemical Corp., a subsidiary of GenTek Inc., and Esseco SpA plan to form a j...
65. DUPONT ENGINEERING Polymers has bought Eastman Chemical Company's high-performance c...
66. John T. Reid has been elected to the board of directors of Minerals Technologies Inc...
67. Richard Donnelly, a former executive with General Motors Corp., has been named to th...
68. The challenging environment for specialty chemical companies serving the US is a pro...
69. Eastman Chemical Company has launched a 5c. increase for list and off-list prices of...
70. PRICING FOR white mineral oil and petrolatum remain under pressure with feedstock co...
71. IVAX Corp. was one of four companies to receive FDA approval for its generic version...
72. RESOLUTION PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS is raising its off-list prices for bisphenol-A and e...
73. CLARIANT MAY divest or spin off its businesses in pharmaceutical and crop protection...
74. DOW CHEMICAL Company has established a new business that specializes in novel emulsi...
75. Harry Parker, vice president and general manager of DuPont Surfaces at DuPont, has b...
76. Braes Group, a natural foods company based in the UK, has selected McCormick & C...
77. ABB, Accenture, Intel and Microsoft have formed an alliance to provide computing dia...
78. SODIUM SILICATE Occidental Chemical Corp. has increased the price on chlorinated iso...
79. PROFIT MARGINS have become too slippery for detergent surfactant producers, who are ...
80. DOVER CHEMICAL Corp. will be increasing the prices of all of its chlorinated product...
81. MERCK & Co. and Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals have successfully completed the ...
82. Douglas M. Moore has been appointed vice president and general manager of DuPont adv...
83. John D. Baldeschwieler has been selected a recipient for the 2003 Othmer Gold M...
84. Venture capital investments in biotechnology and medical device companies totaled $4...
85. IBM has released the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) Resolver software, which provid...
86. NOVARTIS AG continues to stuff its late-stage pipeline through targeted acquisitions...
87. Benzene The global benzene market was highly volatile during 2002, tracking th...
88. THIS YEAR'S Petrochemical Heritage Award goes to Harold A Sorgenti, in recognition o...
89. Gary L. Mossman has joined Cambrex Corp. as president of the Cambrex pharmaceutical ...
90. PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences has inked a new OEM distribution agreement ...
91. ROHMNOVA is raising its prices for all emulsion polymer binders for the paper and pa...
92. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE Atofina Chemicals Inc. says it will delay an expansion it planned ...
93. Plastics ABS (spot) .80-.90 lb. HOPE, inj. .53-.6...
94. The run-up in oil and natural gas costs, coupled with tight supplies of propylene, h...
95. Banc of America Securities analyst Mark Gulley has initiated coverage of Airgas Inc....
96. BASF Corp., on March 15, increased the off-list selling prices for the following pro...
97. VULCAN Chemicals is increase the price of all grades of methyl chloride, methylene c...
98. FRANCE'S CHEMICAL industry association (UIC) projects that the growth of chemicals o...
99. BASF CORP., the North American division of BASF AG, engineered a turnaround in 2002 ...
100. Shipley Company LLC has sold its dry film photoresist business used in printed wirin...
101. CELANESE ACETATE LLC and China National Tobacco Corp. (CNT) have signed an agreement...
102. James J. O'Brien James J. O'Brien, chairman and CEO of Ashland Inc., has been ...
103. Mark de Somer Mark de Somer has been appointed executive vice president of R&a...
104. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. has entered into an agreement with Catlettsburg Refi...
105. RECENT PRESSURES affecting the chemical industry are extensively documented and well...
106. DOW CHEMICAL Company's epoxy products and intermediates business is raising its Nort...
107. A BIPARTISAN group of farm-state senators has reintroduced legislation that would ba...
108. HYDROGEN PEROXIDE Degussa will increase the pricing for all grades of hydrogen perox...
109. National Starch and Chemical Company is increasing the price of all adhesive product...
110. LATE SPOT PRICES CRUDE VEGETABLE OILS * Coconut oil, t.l., N.Y. lb. 2...
111. BASF Corp. will raise prices for all cold polymerized high solids styrene butadiene ...
112. RESPONDING TO the current volatility of oil and natural gas prices, an increasing nu...
113. DOW CHEMICAL Company will increase the price of all grades of monoethanolamine, diet...
114. SODIUM CROSCARMELLOSE Noviant is raising selling prices in North America for Nymcel ...
115. DEGUSSA IS breaking up its health and nutrition division, which it had previously ea...
116. Methanex Corp. has put on hold its plans for a 2 million ton-per-year methanol proje...
117. DESPITE A global leadership position in the business segment, the UK oil and chemica...
118. Eastman Chemical Company has launched a global price increase for off-list prices on...
119. THE NEW industrial, revolution is quietly underway, as biotechnology becomes an incr...
120. NOVOZYMES A/S reported a 4 percent drop to DKr 2 billion ($300 million) in sales las...
121. Joe Taets has been named president of ADM European oilseed processing at Archer Dani...
122. J. Richard Fredericks has been appointed to the board of directors of Chiron Corp. M...
123. Solvay Solexis has launched a Web site, www.solvaysolexis.com, to access the company...
124. Towers Perrin, the global, New York-based management, human resource and administrat...
125. Accelrys Inc., a subsidiary of Pharmacopeia Inc., has formed a technology software a...
126. THE RECENT ROUND of fourth quarter results revealed substantially higher revenues, y...
127. CELANESE CHEMICALS will increase the contract selling price of ethyl acetate, n-buta...
128. EASTMAN CHEMICAL Company has introduced EastaPure PM acetate stabilized, a high-puri...
129. ASHLAND SPECIALTY Chemical Company's Drew Industrial business has introduced Drewplu...
130. THE NORTH American water treatment chemicals market is projected to grow organically...
131. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. Bush is proposing a fiscal 2004 budget of $7.63 billion for the ...
132. Ciba Specialty Chemicals has acquired Sun Chemical Corp.'s perylene product line. Su...
133. DuPont Bio-Based Materials and Stavanger, Norway-based Statoil ASA have formed a joi...
134. A SURGING methanol market received an additional jolt last week when Methanex Corp.,...
135. Brian F. Peterson has been elected senior vice president of corporate affairs at Arc...
136. Calvin B. Cobb has been appointed vice president and general manager of Invesys PLC'...
137. Novozymes A/S has acquired Semco Bioscience Inc., a producer of natural micro-organi...
138. REICHHOLD INC. is revising its previously announced price increase for unsaturated p...
139. AMMONIA prices have been increasing this month, due to several factors, including hi...
140. KEMIRA said last week that two-thirds of capacity at its titanium dioxide plant at P...
141. BASF AG has increased its capacity for waxes and wax emulsions by 10,000 tons per ye...
142. Eric Tillirson has been named director of marketing at Thiele Kaolin Company. Mr. Ti...
143. Harold Charles Hawthorne has joined BASF's technical services laboratory in Ledgewoo...
144. These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise specified. These listings are based...
145. Microsoft Corp. plans to release a new offering this spring that will map to Six Sig...
146. GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC (GSK) has received a positive opinion from the European Commissi...
147. DSM is transferring its soil remediation technology, PuriSoil, to a new company call...
148. Chemical Profile HYDROGEN February 24, 2003 PRODUCER ...
149. Laurie Ann Lucchina has joined Shuster Laboratories Inc. as director of the food and...
150. Refron Inc., the nation's largest distributor of refrigerant gases, has upgraded its...
151. RESPONDING TO an unforgiving business environment in the chemical industry, Foster W...
152. CELANESE CHEMICALS is increasing the off-list selling prices for polyols, paraformal...
153. Zambon Group SpA is an Italian based multinational pharmaceutical company committed ...
154. THE CHEMICAL industry is urging Congress to look for ways to promote abundant and di...
155. IN WHAT have been described as "dawn raids," antitrust investigators in th...
156. EUROPEAN antitrust authorities last week raided the offices of operators of deep-sea...
157. THE WHITE House has released a plan for protecting the nation's critical infrastruct...
158. Sweden-based Perstorp Group and South Korea-based Hansol Group have formed a joint v...
159. KOCH NITROGEN Company, based in Wichita, Kan., has signed agreements with Kansas Cit...
160. QUEST, ICI'S flavors and fragrances business, continues to be dogged by the effects ...
161. Alco Chemical Corp. will, as of March 1, increase the price of its Alcogum solution ...
162. VAM Celanese Chemicals will increase the off-list selling prices of vinyl acetate mo...
163. SHELL CHEMICALS increased its adjusted earnings more than fivefold to $180 million i...
164. HELIUM February 17, 2003 PRODUCER CAPACI...
165. David D. Pendergast has been promoted to executive vice president of operations. He ...
166. Arnold Demain has been appointed to the industrial advisory board of Codexis Inc. Mr...
167. Borealis A/S will extend its distribution agreement with Ashland Distribution Compan...
168. Ross Systems Inc., a provider of enterprise software solutions for process manufactu...
169. BTX Spot benzene prices slipped a bit last week with February offers down to $1.92 p...
170. DYSTAR has developed Remazol Fluorescent Yellow FL, which the company is calling the...
171. PENRECO has reduced temporary competitive allowances on all grades of NF, USP and te...
172. PERSTORP Coating Intermediates will raise its prices for pentaerythritol by 8c, per ...
173. EUROPEAN CHEMICAL majors Clariant, Akzo Nobel and DSM saw revenues slip in 2002, and...
174. MARGINS AT PolyOne Corp. continue to be hurt by rising energy costs, but the company...
175. Aceto Corp., a global distributor of pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals, report...
176. Ashok Mendiratta has been named vice president of global technology at Reichhold. Mr...
177. Eric Carlier has been named director of technology, Europe, at Reichhold. Mr. Carlie...
178. Emerson Process Management has received a multi-year contract from Voridian, a divis...
179. OMNOVA SOLUTIONS will raise its prices for all styrene butadiene, styrene butadiene ...
180. NORTH AMERICAN soda ash has been generally balanced over the last several months, al...
181. EASTMAN CHEMICAL Company is increasing the prices of its specialty plastics products...
182. CHEMICAL INDUSTRY officials say a new federal study on the levels of environmental c...
183. DOW CHEMICAL Company has idled part of the polymeric methyl diphenyl diisocyanate (p...
184. VITAMIN C BASF Corp. is increasing the prices for Lutavit vitamin C crystal and Luta...
185. Robert Terranova has joined Fanwood Chemical as an associate. Mr. Terranova has more...
186. Daniel W. Fisher has been promoted to vice president of Houghton Fluidcare, the chem...
187. Rockwood Specialties Inc. has announced a $7 million expansion and refurbishment pro...
188. Lurgi Oel Gas Chemie GmbH, a subsidiary of Lurgi AG and part of the engineering divi...
189. VAM Dow Chemical Company will increase selling prices of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM)...
190. CAMBREX, ANNOUNCING fourth quarter earnings, has also disclosed an accounting issue ...
191. LAST WEEK Roche Holding AG of Switzerland saw its shares rise slightly on a vote of ...
192. LAST YEAR, Altana AG raised its chemicals sales by 4 percent to [euro]748 million ($...
193. ELAN CORP. PLC agreed last week to sell its primary care franchise to King Pharmaceu...
194. DUPONT POSTED underlying fourth quarter profits of $345 million, a big improvement o...
195. Wesley P. Wheeler has been appointed president, North America at ICN Pharmaceuticals...
196. Gregory Kinch has been appointed vice president of sales and services. He will be re...
197. Genencor International Inc. has released its second annual report on corporate susta...
198. THE CHEMICAL Industry Data Exchange's (CDX) cyber security initiative is off and run...
199. Thayne Hansen has been appointed business vice president of the UCAR emulsion system...