Stories Collection
- GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL Corporation reported a 20 percent drop in first quarter net inc...
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AT A CEREMONY IN Crossett, Ark., last week, Georgia-Pacific Corporation's re...
- Makers of commodity chemicals report solid unit volumes.
CHEMICAL COMPANIES are...
- Biopesticides and chemical pesticides are joining ranks in an integrated approach to...
- Netherlands and Spain are the top investors; Germany and UK are flat.
INVESTME...
- The overcrowded World vanillin market, growing at a slim 2 to 3 percent per year, is...
- Plans call for leadership position in polyurethane market.
In a bid to further st...
- SASOL LTD. and the Norwegian state oil company Statoil are forming an alliance to co...
- NSC TECHNOLOGIES, a Mr. Prospect, Ill., subsidiary of Monsanto Company, has agreed t...
- Onsite production offers potential for the industrial gas market, and demand in elec...
- SHINTECH INC., the world's largest producer of polyvinyl chloride, finds itself in t...
- Despite a lull in the semiconductor industry last year, electronic chemicals are a h...
- Restructuring is underway in the multi-billion dollar global specialty chemicals ind...
- AMOCO CORPORATION plans to expand its global polypropylene capacity by a total of 33...
- Several new products are poised to enter the market.
A FLURRY OF RECENT activity ...
- PHILLIPS CHEMICAL Company has begun commercial-scale production of its Marlex brand ...
- HULS AG's SILICONES and silanes business unit has developed what it calls the first ...
- A RECENT ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency report on DowElanco's insecticide Dursban, ...
- BASF Corporation suffered an explosion at its Geismar, La., butanediol plant last Tu...
- AMERICAN International Chemical Inc., Natick, Mass., has obtained ISO 9002 certifica...
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL Corporation and Sumitomo Bakelite Co. Ltd. are expanding their j...
- MONSANTO COMPANY has developed a nylon biocarrier that the company says is stronger,...
- J. KIMO ESPLIN, senior vice-president and CFO of Huntsman Corporation reiterated las...
- Bayer, Roche and Unilever are all restructuring.
AS THE UPPER ECHELON of the flav...
- CONTRARY TO CLAIMS made by environmentalists, National Association of Chemical Distr...
- THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, backed by the chemical industry and other major US busin...
- GLOBAL DEMAND FOR butanediol is growing at an average annual rate of 3.2 percent and...
- As BIOTECHNOLOGY CONTINUES to boom, it requires an ever-larger infrastructure. Indus...
- H.B FULLER reported a 116 percent increase in earnings per share in the first quarte...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY is issuing regulations that establish a streamlined ...
- AKZO NOBEL and Courtaulds have agreed to undertake a detailed engineering study for ...
- CHARLES E. BENNETT, president and owner of Polymer Products Inc., has purchased a &q...
- Globalization is concentrating market share in a mighty few.
Buoyed by healthy ...
- Governments are eager to please, but skilled labor shortages make deadlines hard to ...
- Higher feedstock prices and the strong US dollar are a first quarter drag.
Dow C...
- THERE ARE FOUR MAJOR phenol additions planned in the US, and JLM Industries Inc. cha...
- The biotech industry is moving into 1997 with an improved financial profile, as inve...
- AT 9:12 AM, this Wednesday, April 16, 1997, people will gather in Texas City to begi...
- Although PQ Corporation has been making silicates since 1860, the company sees them ...
- Chevron upgrades, Shell debottlenecks, UOP has new technology.
Producers are gear...
- Plant is one of three POSM units planned for Europe.
REPSOL IS PRESSING ahead wit...
- IN THE CONTINUING legal struggle between Olin Corporation and the small environmenta...
- Huntsman reaffirms $16 per share all-cash bid before this week's shareholder meeting...
- AFTER A TWO-YEAR investigation, Greenpeace has concluded that production and use of ...
- EISAI Co. LTD. and Johnson & Johnson affiliate Janssen Pharmaceuticals NV have s...
- ADVANCED AROMATICS LP is a privately held company carving out a niche in a business ...
- ARMED WITH A NEW REPORT that claims the excise tax exemption for ethanol has outlive...
- Lighter feeds are expected to fuel North American ethylene expansions, although a wa...
- Arco is charting its own course for the business, and some earlier projects.
T...
- Peak demand months are on the horizon, and not everyone may get product.
THE M...
- A once oversupplied market now has consumers scrambling to find product.
A NEW...
- The $200 MM facility, including butyl acrylate, is set for 2000 startup.
ELF ATO...
- AKZO NOBEL IS CONSIDERING rationalizing its base chemicals business, mainly consisti...
- SHELL OIL COMPANY and Texaco Inc. have signed a memorandum of understanding to combi...
- PHENOLCHEMIE SAYS it is going ahead with its plan to build a worldscale phenol plant...
- Increasing meat consumption and mad cow scare both benefit phosphates.
SPURRED B...
- NEW TECHNOLOGY and larger plants are the keys to maintaining profitability in the in...
- WITH THE Internet becoming the data "dial tone," and electronic commerce b...
- REXENE PRODUCTS, a division of Rexene Corporation, says that its Rexflex flexible po...
- MORTON INTERNATIONAL INC. has completed an acquisition and announced two expansions,...
- HOECHST TECHNICAL Polymers (HTP) has reorganized its sales team from a product and g...
- Lighter feeds are expected to fuel North American ethylene expansions, although a wa...
- POTASSIUM SULFATES March 17 1997
PRODUCER ...
- AXSON SA's North American unit has purchased Maxco Inc.'s Akemi Inc. subsidiary, a m...
- The Clinton Administration and environmentalists last week sharply criticized Superf...
- Company plans to produce about 20 million pounds this year.
PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO...
- MOBIL CORPORATION and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation are proceeding with a previ...
- THE CHAIRMAN OF the House Commerce Committee, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), has releas...
- ETHANOL March 10, 1997
PRODUCER ...
- ALBRIGHT & WILSON'S 50 percent owned associate, Albright & Wilson Troy de Me...
- THE THREE OPERATING UNITS of Millennium Chemicals Inc.-- Quantum Chemical Company, S...
- ICI Australia Ltd. is closing its last two plants making plastic compounding materia...
- Revision of emission levels for ozone and fine particulates called scientifically so...
- CYTEC INDUSTRIES INC. and Dyno Industrier ASA signed a letter of intent last week to...
- BAKER HUGHES INC. has agreed to acquire the oilfield chemical producer Petrolite Cor...
- UOP, BEST KNOWN for its aromatics process technology, wants to become a bigger playe...
- Chemical industry backs banning of production and use of chemical weapons.
IN A ...
- THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY will be unrecognizable in five years because of restructuring,...
- TH. GOLDSCHMIDT AG, Essen, Germany, has introduced two new products for cream and ge...
- IN SPITE OF REDUCED sunflowerseed crush, sun oil prices have softened under pressure...
- The $200 MM facility, including butyl acrylate, is set for 2000 startup.
ELF A...
- PHENOLCHEMIE SAYS it is going ahead with its plan to build a worldscale phenol plant...
- The wave in single-site catalysis is creating unlikely partners. The two leading US-...
- OVER THE PAST WEEK, large quantities of spearmint oil have been removed from physica...
- ETHANOL March 10, 1997
PRODUCER ...
- Feedstocks are sharing in the herbicide's success.
THE SPECTACULAR SUCCESS of M...
- ALBRIGHT & WILSON Americas Inc. hit the half-billion-dollar mark in sales last y...
- THE USUALLY CALM anhydrous aluminum chloride market is gaining some new wrinkles to ...
- AIR PRODUCTS GASES Industriais Ltda., a 100 percent owned company of Air Products &a...
- SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES Corporation has signed an agreement with a consortium of bank...
- The House Judiciary Committee has approved by voice vote legislation that would requ...
- But agency says further study is needed to define scope of the problem.
AFTER RE...
- ECOLAB INC. HAS ACQUIRED Savolite Group's institutional, food and beverage, and comm...
- BOC GASES has obtained exclusive rights to supply Showa Denko KK's halocarbon 116 to...
- SMITHBARNEY is initiating coverage on Terra Industries Inc. with only a neutral, hig...
- Asia is leading the way in a series of global paraxylene expansions, as the market a...
- CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS COMPANY has signed an agreement with Mona Industries Inc. to prov...
- Instead, three businesses--Celanese, Trevira, Ticona--will become wholly owned.
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- Worldscale ethylene and derivatives units will cost up to $2 billion.
EXXON CHEMI...
- IN THE MIDST OF STRONG DEMAND and tight supply, the three US caustic potash producer...
- Asia is facing oversupply in PX and PTA, although polypropylene expansions are dryin...
- WHILE SOME COMPANIES base their growth strategy on becoming a global producer, Sun C...
- PHILIP ENVIRONMENTAL INC. and Allwaste Inc. have signed a definitive agreement to me...
- NEW BIOMATERIALS ACCESS legislation--intended to protect chemical companies and othe...
- SINGAPORE MAY HAVE capacity for 1 million metric tons of acetic acid within the next...
- Agency gridlock is said to be holding back several of the newest products.
PESTI...
- STEPAN COMPANY, Petresa Canada Inc. and Union Carbide Corporation are planning to in...
- THE WATER TREATMENT industry is projected to continue its healthy performance in Nor...
- This year is expected to start better, but then deteriorate.
PVC PRODUCERS in Wes...
- A once oversupplied market now has consumers scrambling to find product.
A NEW T...
- ECOLAB INC. SAYS STRONG domestic sales and income growth, coupled with improved equi...
- CLARIANT CORPORATION says its Sanduvor PR-25 product, previously designated as AL353...
- ZIMMER AG, part of the Lurgi Group, has handed over its recently completed polyester...
- WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE from the World Bank, the Russian Federation has agreed to ...
- Firms are capitalizing on the surge, as they realize it may only be short-lived.
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- A MAJOR PORTION of the financing for a new $90 million synthetic rubber plant in Tha...
- CMC March 24, 1997
PRODUCER ...
- A small market must grow to absorb big plant.
THE TINY US MARKET for cyclodextr...
- POTASSIUM SULFATES March 17 1997
PRODUCER ...
- DURING THE LAST DECADE, nearly half of all new global olefins capacity has been plan...
- GERANIUM OIL IS AGAIN at a crossroads. After a disappointing 1996, the market is pre...
- BUTYL RUBBER
March 13, 1997
PRODUCER CAPACI...
- Rapid product growth has brought on new technology.
THE GLOBAL MARKETS for buta...
- CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS is launching a new line of Irganox polyolefin stabilizers i...
- ADVANCED AROMATICS LP is a privately held company carving out a niche in a business ...
- Soft pricing dampened a strong year in 1996, while petrochemicals advance.
Can...
- WITCO CORPORATION is taking an asset-oriented approach to business in an attempt to ...
- A SUBSTANTIAL PART of the epoxidized soybean oil supply vanished with a January 23 e...
- GE PLASTICS SAYS its Structured Products business will grow at a double digit rate o...
- In separate big projects they will build plants using refinery propylene.
MoRE...
- THE WORLD ETHYLENE MARKET could be trending toward oversupply. Global propylene, on ...
- New capacity is aimed at rapidly growing film market.
LYONDELL PETROCHEMICAL Co...
- Increased competition is forcing South African chemical producers to diversify produ...
- PARAMINS, AN EXXON Chemical Company business unit, has developed a new class of addi...
- SEN. RICHARD LUGR, (R-Ind.), chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has intro...
- DETERGENTS AND PERSONAL CARE
ICI PERFORMANCE CHEMICALS will align the Solaveil bu...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency administrator Carol Browner has signed a controversi...
- CHLORALKALI PRODUCERS are bringing on another round of chlorine price increases only...
- APHTON CORPORATION is forming a 20-year strategic alliance awith Pasteur Merieux Con...
- STEPAN COMPANY SAYS its net earnings rose 18 percent to $19.1 million for 1996, comp...
- OSMONICS INC. HAs ENTERED an agreement in principle to acquire AquaMatic Inc. of Roc...
- HARRIS CHEMICAL North America Inc. had operating income of $32.2 million on net sale...
- E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & Co., once again the largest chemical company in the wo...
- New exposure limits said to rest on incomplete assessment of economic impact.
OC...
- KEMIRA IS SUPPLYING customers of its titanium dioxide plant at Rotterdam from stocks...
- MOST FINANCIAL ANALYSTS have lowered the earnings estimates of commodity. chemical c...
- Chiron Corporation and the biotech group of Baxter Healthcare Corporation have signe...
- Custom manufacturers are winning the battle in setting air pollution control standar...
- ACCESS PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Dow Chemical Company ...
- Borealis, with ownership up in air, also mulls expansion.
SHELL CHEMICALS EUROPE ...
- MITSUI PETROCHEMICAL Industries Ltd. is dropping out of a project with Sinopec's Tia...
- DUPONT EXPECTS that it will shortly have to expand its polybutylene terephthalate pl...
- A SCOURGE OF PARASITES has swept through the beehives of the world, and beeswax prod...
- As THE 105TH CONGRESS opened for business, a key Democrat signaled that his party ma...
- Increased competition is forcing South African chemical producers to diversify produ...
- PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE producers and consumers alike are miffed at a supply deal that co...
- Traditional importers like India may begin to market polyester and intermediates.
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- A SCOURGE OF PARASITES has swept through the beehives of the world, and beeswax prod...
- Sponsors of trade shows are seeking to carve out their niche, as the number of trade...
- POLYSTYRENE PRODUCERS are looking to put through a price increase, blaming rising fe...
- HOECHST AG IS FINDING it has a few loose ends following the formation of Hoechst Mar...
- SOLKATKONIC CHEMICALS Inc. has started construction on its second electronic gas pro...
- New business strategy involves upgrades and plant expansions.
OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL...
- LOWER INSURANCE COSTS, broader terms and more availability are expected for the chem...
- PETROCHEMICAL PROJECTS: Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation, San Antonio, will spe...
- Agency is taking longer to establish listing and do cleanup, a report charges.
C...
- A tax on imports is diverting product elsewhere.
IN AN ATTEMPT TO FURTHER its sel...
- AMOCO CHEMICAL COMPANY has formed an agreement with Engelhard Corporation to market ...
- THE INITIAL FLOW of chemicals from the Singapore Aromatics Company Pvt. complex on P...
- 'Reinvention' programs are changing the way agency deals with industry.
AFTER YE...
- TH. GOLDSCHMIDT AG, Essen, Germany, has introduced a new emulsifier which can be use...
- DSM JSR ENGINEERING Plastics KK (DJEP) is being formed in Japan by Netherlands-based...
- Strong growth is projected for organometallic compounds, which are finding new appli...
- HOECHST AG's WORLDWIDE reorganization plans (see story on page 1) now include the se...
- SENATE LEADERS ARE PREDICTING quick action on a major trade issue--renewal of the pr...
- REPORTING A 6-MILLION-TON surplus of chemical fertilizers (in terms of 100 percent n...
- BASF MAGNETICS GMBH of Germany and the Krasnoyarsk Electrochemical Plant have opened...
- NORTH AMERICAN CHEMICAL COMPANY has agreed to pay $320,000 in civil penalties to set...
- WITCO CORPORATION'S FOURTH quarter earnings have been hit by charges of $436.1 milli...
- SHELL FRACTIONATION INC. is acquiring a one-third interest in Promix LLC and will he...
- At the same time, it is building up MMA business with new Shell technology.
ICI ...
- Two MAJOR DEVELOPERS of chlorine-free refrigerants, AlliedSignal Inc. and E.I. du Po...
- ASAHI CHEMICAL IS TAKING the plant-conversion route to metallocene polyethylene prod...
- Two CANADIAN COMMODITY chemical companies posted strong operating resuits, putting t...
- 'The slippage in [US] exports is principally due to the growth in capacity from prod...
- Purchase continues NGC's fast buildup as a leading independent energy firm.
NA...
- E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & Co., once again the largest chemical company in the wo...
- At the same time, it is building up MMA business with new Shell technology.
IC...
- Custom manufacturers and FDA struggle to adapt GMP standards for the production of a...
- Producers say penalties are needed to stem flow of illicit product.
THE EUROPEA...
- SCHIBLEY CHEMICAL is in the process of expanding and moving its operations from Clev...
- ARCADIAN CORPORATION HAS BEEN FINED $50,000 by an administrative law judge of Occupa...
- SALES OF LOW-TEMPERATURE hot melts doubled in 1996, signaling the "beginning of...
- TAKING AN INCREMENTAL APPROACH to reforming the hardrock mining law of 1872, bills h...
- EASTERN EUROPE NEEDS an ethylene pipeline link with Western Europe to help it deal w...
- Most projects in official plans are joint ventures with Western firms.
CHINA, BE...
- ALBEMARLE CORPORATION has formed a new surfactants and biocides business area that i...
- SHELL WILL SHUT DOWN one of two catcrackers at its refinery at Berre, southeast Fran...
- FOOD EXTRUSION INC., Sacramento, Calif., has entered into a development agreement wi...