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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta) has reshuffled its work...
Bayer reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings before interest and taxes...
The CW75 Index improved by about 1% for the week ending September 8, in line with bro...
Bayer says its Bayer HealthCare subsidiary has agreed to form a "broad strategic alli...
BASF says its agchems business will reach a previously announced Ebitda margin target...
The CW75 Index was flat for the week ending September 15, in line with broader indexe...
The Michigan Department of Community Health (DCH; Lansing) has issued a public health...
Energy and feedstock costs have hit unprecedented highs this year, but chemical maker...
Siam Cement says it has made a tender offer to purchase the 72.5% it does not own of ...
Industry association the European Council of Plasticizers and Intermediates (ECPI; Br...
Cytec Industries has agreed to acquire UCB's chemicals business for 1.5 billion [euro...
California voters will decide in November whether the state's laws governing the righ...
Foreign direct investment in the chemical sector staged a recovery in the first half ...
Organizations representing employers and trade unions in Europe's chemical industry h...
Innovation has become a buzzword for companies seeking sales and profit improvement i...
As China opens up its borders to global industry, more and more specialty chemical co...
European propylene spot prices spiked by more than 100/m.t. [euro] last week in respo...
Evalca (Houston), a Kuraray (Osaka) subsidiary, says it will double capacity for ethy...
A federal jury has ordered Continental Carbon (Houston) and its parent company China ...
Bayer's Lanxess unit says it will dismantle an existing hydrazine hydrate plant in Ba...
COMMERCIAL/ NEW BUSINESS/ ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CMAI--USA 11757 Katy Freeway, S...
Second-quarter petrochemical results are looking pretty good. ExxonMobil led the pack...
Arch Chemicals, Cytec Industries, Engelhard, FMC, Rohm and Haas (R&H), and Sigma-...
The leading indicator for the chemical industry has shown almost no movement since pe...
Merck KGaA is looking for ways to double chemicals sales within four years, according...
Most diversified and commodity chemical makers posted strong second-quarter results r...
BASF and Shell Chemicals say they will divest Basell, their 50-50 polyolefins joint v...
U.S. benzene prices eased by about 10 cts/gal, to about $4/gal, last week but remain ...
Ciba Specialty Chemicals (Basel) has focused on strengthening its balance sheet and r...
Business groups and right-to-know activists are awaiting the outcome of a lawsuit pen...
The chemical industry is one of the U.K.'s largest manufacturing sectors. Excluding p...
Major changes are afoot in the polypropylene (PP) industry. BASF and Shell Chemicals,...
Honeywell International may have to spend as much as $2.3 billion to clean up mercury...
AMERICAS August 22-26 PHILADELPHIA American Chemical Society's National Meetin...
Researchers from Nova Chemicals and plastics processing equipment firm Teubert Maschi...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) will uphold Archs formal protest of a...
J.M. Huber says it has agreed to buy the 71.4% stake in hydrocolloid producer CP Kelc...
Wilton International is a world class-manufacturing site which welcomes chemical and ...
Most paints and coatings companies reported sales and earnings improvements for the s...
OxyChem, PPG Industries, and Formosa Plastics have separately announced a $65/ton inc...
The completion of the second-quarter earnings season has shown that chemical makers h...
China's vast population and low operating costs have encouraged investment in all che...
Fine chemical catalyst producers have been hit by a fall in new drag approvals and th...
Fertilizer producers reported improvements in second-quarter sales and earnings, help...
The U.K. chemical industry started to recover in 2003 after a slight decline in the p...
A National Academy of Sciences (NAS; Washington) panel says regulators should conduct...
Epoxy resin producers have announced more price increases in an effort to offset cont...
Lyondell Chemical and Millennium Chemicals say they have delayed the expected complet...
Things are looking up at Dow Corning (Midland, MI), the world's largest silicones mak...
Lucite International (Southampton, U.K.), the market leader in methyl methacrylate (M...
More leading European companies have reported substantially higher second-quarter sal...
A group of private shareholders in Elementis has launched a public attack on the comp...
The U.K. and Hungarian governments have published a joint report proposing what they ...
Syngenta and Diversa say they have restructured their research and product developmen...
After several years of heavy spending on major, high-cost projects such as informatio...
Veteran consultant Peter Spitz's new book, The Chemical Industry at the Millennium--M...
Global catalysts sales increased 6% in total between 2000 and 2003, to $12.1 billion,...
Problems in the custom manufacturing sector have hurt results at several major Europe...
The Titan Group (Johor, Malaysia) will expand capacity of its petrochemical complex a...
Enzyme discovery firm Codexis says it has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement...
Goodyear has abandoned plans to sell its $1.2-billion/year chemical unit, saying "tha...
Most leading European companies have reported increases in second-quarter sales due t...
Customer needs continue to be the focus of ExxonMobil Chemical's Polypropylene Busine...
Dow Chemical says it has awarded IBM Global Services (Armonk, NY) a seven-year outsou...
DuPont has issued its formal challenge to EPA's allegations that the company violated...
The CW75 Index fell 1.3% for the week ending July 28, despite higher second-quarter e...
Samsung-Atofina, a 50-50 joint venture between Samsung and Atofina, plans to build a ...
OM Group (OMG) says an audit of its earnings dating back to 1999 has found that adjus...
ACC has asked the Michigan Supreme Court to prohibit plaintiffs who are not ill from ...
In the chemical industry today, you don't have to be in China to be very involved wit...
Oriental Union Chemical Corp. (OUCC; Taipei), an affiliate of Far Eastern Textile (Ta...
Food ingredient suppliers are bulking up their offerings as consumers, particularly i...
State oil company Petrobras (Rio de Janeiro) is planning to build a $1.3-billion gas ...
Growth prospects and the ability to recover pricing leverage were among the major the...
There's no question that industry' leaders assembled at Ace's meeting at the Greenbri...
Most specialty chemical producers in Canada say they have at least one big problem--s...
Nearly half the respondents to Cefic's latest biannual public survey said their overa...
The CW75 Index tell 2.4% for the week ending July 7, lagging broader market indexes i...
Radiation curing remains a small application for the plastics industry, used on about...
Senate leaders tried to reach an agreement last week on the amount of money needed fo...
Rohm and Haas (R&H) says it has signed a seven-year contract to outsource its wor...
AMERICAS August 22-26 PHILADELPHIA American Chemical Society's National Meeting. T...
Elementis says it will expand its chrome chemicals operation by building a joint vent...
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington) says chemical pl...
LG Chem is expanding its neopentyl glycol (NPG) capacity, a move that the company say...
A rebound in demand and rigorous cost-cutting have given the Canadian chemical indust...
Benzene spot prices reached new highs last week, reflecting tight supply and strong d...
The National Environmental Trust (NET; Washington) says a review of 40 consumer and h...
Private equity firm 3i (London) says it expects "good growth prospects from the Kemir...
Bayer has confirmed plans to acquire the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs business of Roc...
Chemical makers will benefit from improved consumer and business confidence through s...
SEC says it has agreed to set up a means for investors to track a company's environme...
Hoffmann-La Roche says it will build monoclonal antibody plants at Basel and Penzberg...
EPA's assertion that DuPont did not submit key information on worker exposure to perf...
A consortium led by U.K. businessman Dennis Matthewman and private equity capital com...
Our industry needs to be out front in promoting the benefits that chemistry brings to...
Manufacturing shipments rebounded by 0.3% in May after declining 0.1% in the previous...
Solutia's European subsidiary says in a regulatory filing that it has appointed inves...
The Senate tidied to pass a class-action reform bill backed by Senate Majority Leader...
Prices U.S. LLDPE, 54-55 cts/lb del; HDPE, 55 cts-59 cts/lb del, domestic: LLDPE, ...
While the ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) curing industries represent an esti...
Most early reporting chemical companies posted increases in second-quarter sales and ...
Diversa says it has launched an enzyme for the textile industry that will cut down th...
Robert L. Wood left a top job at Dow Chemical last year to take on one of the tougher...
The California State Senate has approved a bill banning phthalates in cosmetics, and ...
DSM Melamine and China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) say they have signed a let...
"Better," "faster" and "cleaner" may sound like the selling points of a new car, but ...
Ultraviolet (UV) and electron beam (EB) are promoted as environmentally safe technolo...
Benzene spot prices hit another record last week, breaching $4/gal fob at CW press ti...
EPA says it is conducting a nationwide investigation of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plan...
The recent debate about ISO 14000 diluting Responsible Care has been interesting (CW,...
Startup contract research firm PharmaQuick-Development (PQD; Cham-Steinhausen, Switze...
The CW75 fell 1.8% for the week ended June 21, lagging the Morgan Stanley global comp...
(EPDC; Venlo, the Netherlands) says it is going ahead with a previously announced pro...
Since its inception in the 1970s, radiation-cured coatings have been suitable for var...
Next year will mark the end of a six-year restructuring and business growth plan at S...
Aromatics prices rose dramatically last week, despite lower crude oil. Tight benzene ...
Dow Chemical and state-owned Oman Oil Co. (OOC; Muscat) say they have agreed to form ...
European polystyrene (PS) producers, struggling with an unprecedented rise in feedsto...
Saudi Aramco says it has agreed to acquire an initial stake of nearly 10% in refining...
U.S. ethylene contracts have settled at a rollover for June, at 31.5 cts/lb del, mark...
An unplanned outage at BASF's 1-billion lbs/year polystyrene (PS) plant at Joliet, IL...
Rhodia's silica systems division says it has launched a precipitated silica that can ...
India's Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, has asked the count's Ministry of Fina...
Sigma-Aldrich says it has acquired privately owned custom pharma intermediates manufa...
Responsible Care was born in Canada in the wake of the 1984 chemical accident at Bhop...
Benzene prices eased slightly last week after soaring past $1,000/m.t. in Europe, and...
The antibiotics industry has evolved from small beginnings in the years immediately a...
Solutia Pharmaceutical Services Division (PSD), a provider of drug development servic...
Almost every leading Japanese company posted improved earnings for the fiscal year en...
A 10-year European Union (EU) risk assessment has found that the flame retardant deca...
(capacities in thousands of m.t/year; contract values in millions of dollars) CO...
The majority of companies that have recently left ACC say the move has had little, if...
Demand for fine and specialty chemicals has strengthened during the past month, and t...
PKN Orlen says it has agreed to buy the Czech government's 66.99% stake in refinery a...
The mood at ACC's annual meeting at The Greenbrier last week was more cheerful than i...
As the chemical business finally starts to pick up, senior financial officers (SFO) c...
U.S. benzene contracts set a new record for June at $2.60/gal, a rise of 32 cts/gal f...
Office Cheriffien des Phosphates (OCP; Casablanca) and Fauji Foundation (Rawalpindi, ...
A group of researchers from China, Japan, and Sweden say they have developed a surfac...
Bayer MaterialScience says it will invest about 3 billion [euro] ($3.6 billion) throu...
The electronics business of Samsung says it plans to phase out the use of certain haz...
Cefic says it is mulling changes to the European Responsible Care program as part of ...
Prices U.S. 43-44 cts/lb, spot; 54-57 cts/lb April Contract EUROPE $940-96...
Private equity firm Bain Capital (Boston) is continuing its buying spree in the chemi...
Mexican chemical firms say they are struggling against diminished expectations for re...
The Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling last week that had required an en...
Congestion on Union Pacific (UP) rail lines has resulted in significant shipping dela...
The CW75 Index jumped 2.4% for the week ending June 2, well ahead of broader market i...
The Senate is expected to take up a tort reform bill, the Class Action Fairness Act, ...
Private equity firm Apollo Management (New York) says it has agreed to pay $215 milli...
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP; Trenton) issued a report ...
Several software and consulting firms say they have banded together to from the Compl...
August 30-September 1, 2004 * Shangri-La Pudong Hotel * Shanghai, China Dominating...
A startup firm headed by fine chemicals veteran Ian Short says it has acquired Great ...
Victrex (Thornton Cleveleys, U.K.) says it is reviewing options to expand its polyeth...
DuPont says it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Maxygen's ag biotechnolo...
The four major parcel tanker lines--Jo Tankers, Odfjell, Stolt, and Tokyo Marine--are...
Concern is growing that many international ports and vessels are not prepared to meet...
Siam Cement says it plans to increase its stake in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) producer ...
A veteran CEO recently commented to CW how the extended downturn of the last several ...
Honeywell Specialty Materials says it has launched a range of high-purity electrolyte...
Cambridge Major Laboratories (Germantown, WI) says it expects to finish installing eq...
Many essential chemical processes used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical ingredien...
The chemical storage sector is in the midst of a restructuring, partly in response to...
Kuraray's board is expected to approve a $150-million plan this month to double ethyl...
Iran is racing ahead with almost unprecedented speed to build a petrochemicals indust...
EPA is expected to take enforcement action against DuPont for failing to report infor...
Q: What is the scope of Basell's Technology Business? A: Innovation is the main dr...
Most chemical analysts are upgrading their earnings outlook for petrochemical compani...
Engineering and construction (E&C) firms serving the chemical industry say they a...
Prices U.S. $470-$480/m.t. fob Gulf Coast, spot EUROPE $420-$450/m.t. fob Nort...
Socma says its members are gearing up to comply with the expanded Responsible Care pr...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG; Washington) says that some of the chemical ingr...
China's pharmaceutical intermediate manufacturers represent a significant competitive...
Pfizer CentreSource (PCS; Kalamazoo, MI), the $400 million/year contract manufacturin...
BP has given further details of its previously announced plan to spin off its olefins...
Hacking, viruses, worms, and other attempts to breach security of IT systems and netw...
The Bayer board will decide within two months whether to spin off Lanxess, its recent...
The National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD; Washington) says the second ...
The CW75 Index was flat for the week ending June 9, slightly lagging broader markets ...
Strong demand and tight supply drove up benzene spot prices last week, despite a decl...
Honeywell says it will invest $20 million to build a new production line for its Spec...
Dow Corning officially emerged from bankruptcy on June 1, and the company says it wil...
Shell Chemicals says it has completed construction of a 95,000-m.t./year polytrimethy...
ABF's safety, security, and freight-handling performance is consistently recognized a...
The volume and value of chemical industry M&A activity, in first-quarter 2004 was...
'Sustainability' defines how countries can meet the needs of their populations today ...
Compass Minerals says it has filed a registration statement for the sale of up to 6.9...
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG; Washington) has a released a list of w...
Caustic soda contracts to the alumina industry are expected to fall in the second hal...
The CW75 jumped 1.8% for the week ending June 30, outpacing broader market indexes, w...
The mantra of any management system--plan, do, check, act--is easier said than done w...
GDP grew 4.4% in the first quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, but...
Rising raw material costs and strong demand has prompted epoxy resin producers to rai...
Nova Chemicals (Calgary, AB) says it is poised to turn around its earnings performanc...
Chemical industry analysts expect a strong second-quarter earnings season as improved...
Praxair says it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Home Care Supply (Beaumo...
Strong demand and tight supply has driven up U.S. chlorine prices to record levels, p...