Stories Collection

1. WHEN DOW CHEMICAL Company posted unexpected earnings gains in the fourth quarter, Wa...
2. REICHHOLD CHEMICALS Inc. will issue price increases of 4 to 6 percent on its emulsio...
3. JOST CHEMICAL INC., St. Louis, Mo., is now in full production at its new 40,000 squa...
4. Producers say penalties are needed to stem flow of illicit product. THE EUROPEAN ...
5. PHOSPHORUS TRICHLORIDE February 3, 1997 PRODUCER ...
6. PHOSPHORUS PENTASULFIDE January 27, 1997 PRODUCER ...
7. JAPAN'S CHEMICAL MAKERS may be among the most efficient in handling their imported h...
8. The countries in the Mercosur trading bloc, particularly Argentina and Brazil, are d...
9. Market in Europe has strengthened, but raw materials are up, too. POLYVINYL CHL...
10. SUPPLY OF HIGH-ERUCIC acid rapeseed (HEAR) oil is tight as usual, and prices reflect...
11. THE COMMONWEALTH of Independent States--Russia--has plenty of aluminum ore, but its ...
12. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE LTD. has obtained exclusive rights to market Viracept, an anti-AID...
13. A NEW LOCATION--China's Hainan province, an island just south of Guangdong province-...
14. EXPANSION, RATHER THAN a grassroots plant, is the course China's Illin Chemical Indu...
15. DOMESTIC SALES OF THE German chemical industry declined by 2 percent last year to DM...
16. CRUDE SULFATE TURPENTINE'S seven-quarter-long run of price increases has finally com...
17. Offshore markets are offering the greatest opportunity for growth in bleaching agent...
18. SOQUIMICH SA will invest $6 million to boost its sodium sulfate production from 40,0...
19. COCONUT OIL---Supply of coconut oil is easing slowly but surely, and so are prices. ...
20. SGL CARBON is expanding its interests in carbon fibers through the acquisition of RK...
21. Niagara Falls, N.Y.-based Alox Corporation has received ISO 9001 certification for i...
22. ALTHOUGH THE WORLDWIDE pulp industry has not recovered from its downturn early last ...
23. PHENOLCHEMIE GMBH says it has an agreement in principal and is close to releasing th...
24. The outlook for basic chemicals in 1997 is fairly good. Reasonable US economic growt...
25. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. is reducing the prices on its HFC-152a for propell...
26. Benzene looks to rebound from a weak second half in 1996, as oversupply loomsJ3r key...
27. SHELL HAS REITERATED it is considering possible joint ventures for some of its petro...
28. MORTON INTERNATIONAL INC. acquired two European companies last week that will increa...
29. THE MORE THAN 200 confidential business documents Environmental Protection Agency re...
30. DSM IS CONSIDERING raising capacity for its superstrong Dyneema fiber by two-thirds ...
31. BAYER AG's ASIAN PLASTIC operations are in an expansion mode, with a new plant for C...
32. CLOUDS LOOM OMINOUSLY on the horizon as the year comes to a close. Wall Street fully...
33. NATURAL RESOURCES Defense Council has filed a lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the f...
34. ENTERPRISE RESOURCE planning software offers chemical companies a way of tracking tr...
35. LAST YEAR MARKED the start of an aggressive plan by the Chinese central government t...
36. AMERCHOL CORPORATION, Edison, N.J., may be best known for its lanolin derivatives su...
37. ALTHOUGH THE US high-intensity, noncaloric sweetener market is dominated overwhelmin...
38. ALTHOUGH IBUPROFEN DEMAND is running strong due to the proverbial cold & flu sea...
39. Modest gains in production and demand are projected for Western Europe in 1997, alth...
40. TENNECO INC., which over 33 years became Houston's largest public company, a powerfu...
41. Petrochemical makers had been counting on easing in feedstocks this year. HOPE...
42. Proposed hikes won't fully cover increased costs. SOME WESTERN EUROPEAN polyethyl...
43. THE MERCHANT SULFUR TRIOXIDE market is undergoing radical change. After a period of ...
44. MINERAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.'S Japanese subsidiary', Mintech Japan KK, is forming Speci...
45. JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP Inc. has established a new engineering relationship with Da...
46. ZOLTEK COMPANIES Inc. is expected to benefit from strong demand, make timely and cos...
47. Association finds that public perception of chemical industry is changing. CITIN...
48. COGA INDUSTRIES LLC has awarded Bechtel, Houston, a contract to provide engineering ...
49. SCHERING-PLOUGH CORPORATION will discontinue its funding of a research collaboration...
50. JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP Inc. says its off-site construction subsidiary, Jacobs Appl...
51. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency is pressing ahead with plans to issue a final rule b...
52. VULCAN MATERIALS COMPANY, through its Callaway Chemical Company unit, has acquired t...
53. SOCO CHEMICAL INC. acquired Burris Chemical Inc. and Burco Petroleum Company of Char...
54. BAYER CORPORATION is acquiring selected assets of Pharmacia & Upjohn Animal Heal...
55. GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL Inc. sold its Snomax Technologies unit to York International ...
56. THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY is urging the Clinton Administration to retaliate agains...
57. The major aliphatics are poised for a relatively favorable 1997, and butadiene and e...
58. SEABROOK INDUSTRIES Inc. has introduced a new line of quaternary-like compounds ster...
59. Traditional Western producers expected to survive, but not thrive in coming years. ...
60. CARBON BLACK MANUFACTURERS, sulfuric acid plants, petroleum refineries, copper smelt...
61. Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY'S polyurethanes unit will supply Isobind polymeric methylene di...
62. BASF AG AND ONE of its Asian affiliates closed out the year with significant changes...
63. US ETHYLENE expansions continue to move ahead. The Pace Hodson Report for November 1...
64. Company denies it will exit industry following merger with IVO. NESTE DENIES spec...
65. To TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS of a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that require...
66. VEBA IS PLANNING to withdraw from the chemicals distribution business even though it...
67. Facing a sluggish market for hard surface cleaners, producers turn to line extension...
68. PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES posted improved earnings and sales in the fourth quarter du...
69. PRICES OF TUNG OIL and oiticica oil are skyrocketing and aren't likely to come back ...
70. Producers are gearing up for a favorable year in 1997, and are looking to offshore m...
71. ALTHOUGH THE WORLDWIDE pulp industry has not recovered from its downturn early last ...
72. AFTER EXPERIENCING ANOTHER YEAR of volatility in cobalt metal pricing, cobalt salt p...
73. Slow and steady is an apt description for the multi-billion dollar detergents market...
74. RHONE-POULENC HAS INVESTED approximately $500,000 in its Freeport, Tex., plant to ex...
75. MORTON INTERNATIONAL INC. is exiting the aerospace polymers business and will close ...
76. MIAMI-BASED IVAX Corporation and the Knoll AG unit of BASF have ended their drug dis...
77. Sales, however, continue to make substantial gains. RISING FEEDSTOCK COSTS and a ...
78. Facing a sluggish market for hard surface cleaners, producers turn to line extension...
79. A SETTLEMENT CONCERNING ongoing litigation over the broad spectrum anti-infective ci...
80. ROCHE REPORTED a 9 percent increase in vitamin and fine chemical sales last year to ...
81. ICN PHARMACEUTICALS INC. has obtained approval from Canada's Health Protection Branc...
82. THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION is once again calling on Congress to pass an environmenta...
83. VALSPAR CORPORATION has completed the second phase of its purchase of Coates Coating...
84. THREE CHEMICAL COMPANIES that are expected to outperform the S&P 500 in 1997, ha...
85. TOUGH NEW STANDARDS proposed by Environmental Protection Agency for two types of air...
86. A SENIOR CHEMICAL industry official last week cautioned that a Clinton Administratio...
87. COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATIVE reform of the Superfund law--a top chemical industry prior...
88. ALLIEDSIGNAL INC.'S specialty chemicals division got some Christmas shopping done la...
89. ALTHOUGH THE METHYLENE diisocyanate market has loosened up globally in the last two ...
90. Regional players are using a variety of approaches to improve margins and do battle ...
91. POLYBUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE producers are responding to strong sales growth by expand...
92. Joins Shell and Degussa with plans for monomer, but via a biotech route. E.I. ...
93. A RESPECTED CHEMICAL ANALYST has developed an intriguing system that could help inve...
94. THE EUROPEAN WATER treatment industry is getting a new look as two of its companies ...
95. THE 1996 ANNUAL REPORT of EPA's office of pesticide programs notes that over half of...
96. DURR ENVIRONMENTAL INC. has introduced a new burner which the company claims destroy...
97. EPA proposes significant cuts in methylene chloride and TDI emissions. MAKERS OF...
98. EPA will make a decision within the next month or two on whether states should have ...
99. By linking up with MCN, Lyondell's chemical business secures natural gas supply. ...
100. W.R. GRACE & Co. has temporarily suspended its 18-million share repurchase progr...
101. CRESYLICS December 23, 1996 PRODUCER ...
102. ALBANY MOLECULAR RESEARCH Inc., has been awarded a patent in connection with the ter...
103. A MILAN COURT has ordered insurers to indemnify Sisas for $75 million after an explo...
104. ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS last week claimed victory in a protracted fight against Exxon C...
105. GEO SPECIALTY CHEMICALS Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio, has purchased the aluminum sulfate ...
106. FOUR COMPANIES ACCUSED by customers of fixing prices on citric acid have agreed to p...
107. ALLIEDSIGNAL INC.'S specialty chemicals division got some Christmas shopping done la...
108. INDIA'S THAPAR GROUP has signed a contract with Italy's Pressindustria S.P.A. for a ...
109. PETRESA CANADA INC., a linear alkylbenzene manufacturing facility in Becancour Quebe...
110. LONZA LTD. is investing CHF$36 million ($27.4 million) to build its sixth multi-purp...
111. EXPANSION of the Toxic Release Inventory should ensure that the public is getting me...
112. CALGENE INC. has received its third bioengineering patent for manipulating palnt cel...
113. ACHESON COLLOIDS COMPANY has introduced a new dry film lubricant coating that contai...
114. Transaction completes Texaco's exit from the chemicals arena. HUNTSMAN CORPORAT...
115. PHOSGENE December 16, 1996 PRODUCER ...
116. GEO SPECIALTY CHEMICALS Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio, has purchased the aluminum sulfate ...
117. Reduced supply of lauric oils continues to drive prices, and buyers are feeling the ...
118. Outsourcing distribution functions is a boon to the third-party logistics firms. ...
119. THE WORLDWIDE DEMAND for fine chemicals is estimated at $35 billion to $40 billion, ...
120. THE US CHEMICAL INDUSTRY will continue to be the nation's biggest exporter, despite ...
121. Current target is mid-sized specialty firms. PRIVATE INVESTMENT companies are bec...
122. THE MOTCO SUPERFUND location in La Marque is scheduled for completion of capping lat...
123. W.R. GRACE & CO. says that each of its three core businesses is expected to achi...
124. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. is revamping its marketing plans for elastomers i...
125. A SENIOR CHEMICAL industry official last week cautioned that a Clinton Administratio...
126. RAISIO CHEMICALS OY and Solv-Ex Corporation have teamed up to develop a new pigment ...
127. KYZEN CORPORATION LOOKS to a strong year ahead, aided by its entry into niche market...
128. ETHYLENE AND ITS DERIVATIVES are also being pressured by runaway feedstock costs, an...
129. THE COMING DECADES will bring "heightened challenges" to the US chemical i...
130. Air Products Japan Inc. has taken another step to secure a portion of the electronic...
131. SCHUMACHER HAS IDENTIFIED a new chemical for oxide chamber cleaning that it claims r...
132. MONSANTO COMPANY has become the first major US chemical producer to bet its future o...
133. DESPITE THE ANTITRUST issues involved, FMC Corporation is said to be interested in a...
134. Trade group cites earlier Marion Merrell Dow case as precedent. CHEMICAL MANUFACT...
135. Whittaker, Clark & Daniels Inc. and Akzo Nobel Resins have joined in a new distr...
136. TEXAS PETROCHEMICALS Corporation has shut down one of its two dehydro units at its m...
137. HOECHST CELANESE Corporation's detergent raw materials group will increase the off-l...
138. IN A HIGH-STAKES GAME of cat and mouse, Loctite Corporation outmaneuvered Henkel KGa...
139. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY has issued a final rule limiting the discharge of po...
140. THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE (NCI) of The National Institutes of Health and Bristol...
141. Output to be used for the production of adipic acid. MONSANTO COMPANY'S chemica...
142. RESPONDING TO growing demand, US producers are increasing capacity for spirulina, a ...
143. Nova CHEMICALS LTD. has begun a Cdn$120 million (US$90 million) project to upgrade i...
144. THE VITAMIN E MARKET continues its bull run as suppliers increase production, and st...
145. The prospects for chemical distributors in Mexico are improving, as the domestic eco...
146. AFTER OVER A YEAR OF RISING PRICES and dwindling supplies, the chemical cousins cyst...
147. THE PLAZA GROUP has made significant strides from its inception at the beginning of ...
148. Output to be used for the production of adipic acid. MONSANTO COMPANY'S chemical ...
149. Projections call for 42 million metric tons of new capacity by 2005. GLOBAL ETHYL...
150. E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & Co. and Fiberite Inc., Tempe, Ariz., have signed a let...
151. WATER TREATMENT SERVICE companies will still dominate boiler and cooling water treat...
152. The new venture combines strengths in veterinary and biotech markets. RHONE-POULE...
153. REFORM MINDED REPUBLICANS on Capitol Hill aren't exactly shedding tears over the une...
154. ETHICAL HOLDINGS PLC has entered a strategic alliance with G.D. Searle & Co., th...
155. Akzo Nobel Gets Rep Akzo Nobel Resins has a new distribution partnership with Whi...
156. AGA HAS SIGNED a long-term contract for the supply of compressed air, oxygen, nitrog...
157. Sodium chloride, just like its de-icing competitor calcium chloride, is experiencing...
158. KOCH CHEMICAL COMPANY has developed a new aromatic solvent at its facility in Corpus...
159. WITH PARENT COMPANY First Mississippi Corporation's impending divestment of its fert...
160. CLOROX COMPANY SAYS it will assign its soon-to-be acquired Armor All automotive clea...
161. MONSANTO COMPANY says a rule proposed by Environmental Protection Agency to protect ...
162. SUNOCO CHEMICALS, a business unit of Sun Company Inc., has wrapped up its propylene ...
163. NOVA CORPORATION is introducing a new polyethylene technology to challenge metalloce...
164. MORE TAX PROVISIONS than originally thought could become subject to the line-item ve...
165. Schenectady will produce while DSM will market. DSM AND SCHENECTADY Europe, a sub...
166. Lack of consumption by DuPont Singapore plant is a plus. THE CYCLOHEXANE MARKET...
167. Plant shutdowns and problems benefit salt business. SLOWER SALT SALES and produ...
168. Push will put it up against market leader Shell. CIBA POLYMERS IS BRANCHING OUT...
169. CHEMICAL MAKERS IN TEXAS and elsewhere are up in arms over the latest move by Enviro...
170. CHEMICAL COMPANIES HAVE posted third-quarter results that were healthier than the pr...
171. HARMONIZATION WAS THE BUZZWORD at last week's conference in Baltimore given by Inter...
172. VITAMIN E IS LEADING a double life. While its popularity continues to grow as an ant...
173. MOPE THAN THREE-QUARTERS of Americans now consider a congressional candidate's stand...
174. THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S improved environmental performance and increasing public tru...
175. DESPITE THE FAILURE of the polyethylene industry's most recent price move, most US p...
176. Shift away from solid and plywoods is benefiting pheolic resins. FORMALDEHYDE R...
177. Deal calls into question status of Borealis plans there. BP CHEMICALS HAS been ...
178. PRODUCER CAPACITY* Eastman, Kingsport, ...
179. The upturn, however, will be short lived as new capacity is set for '97. POLYE...
180. Crackdown on imports and new machinery sales should help next year. THE FLUOROC...
181. THE SODIUM SULFATE MARKET is experiencing nearly historic strength, and distributors...
182. LOUISIANA CHEMICAL PLANTS are expected to add 600 new jobs during the next two years...
183. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency administrator Carol Browner visited the Lord-Shope L...
184. BENZOIC ACID November 4, 1996 PRODUCER ...
185. Plant would be latest in a series of investments CHEVRON CHEMICAL COMPANY is co...
186. DEEP DRILLING FOR NATURAL GAS off the Louisiana Gulf Coast will produce a bonanza of...
187. Weak glass industry, new capacity and customer woes conspire against industry. ...
188. ONCE MARKETED TO COMPETE directly with gum arabic, arabinogalactan (AG) is now being...
189. THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY is being increasingly exposed to the forces of the open ...
190. THE RESTRUCTURING OF the US adhesives industry gathered momentum last week as Henkel...
191. Paying $390 million for the privately held firm. ALLIED COLLOIDS IS PAYING $390...
192. POLYSTYRENE PRODUCERS are watching prices drift lower as they try to evaluate the im...
193. SUPPLIERS OF GUAR GUM are beginning to formulate crop expectations as the industry g...
194. Companies are squeezed between slow derivatives and high feedstock costs DEMAN...
195. NAPHTHALENE November 18, 1996 PRODUCER ...
196. Ones that don't meet financial targets will be ventured or sold. HOECHST PLANS...
197. New projects by BASF and Union Carbide are now in danger of relocating Hopes of Tees...
198. PRODUCER CAPACITY(*) BASF, Freeport, Tex .........
199. IN THE LATE 1980s and early 1990s, citrus farmers in Florida went wild planting oran...