Stories Collection
- Attempts to pass comprehensive regulatory reform legislation floundered in the 104th...
- The recent announcement by Cargill Inc. and Degussa AG that they would form a joint ...
- For chemical companies, information technology holds the promise of increasing effic...
- JIM Industries Inc. is preparing to emerge as a publicly traded company with the fil...
- Girindus Corporation of Palm Harbor, Fla., is embarking on an ambitious expansion pr...
- Move will create the third largest fragrance house.
AFTER A SEVEN-YEAR engageme...
- Planned sales are part of effort to improve returns and pick right customers.
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- New BASF facility is part of a $300 million project involving four companies.
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- WHILE A PAPERLESS SOCIETY is still a ways off, MG Industries Inc. and E.I. du Pont d...
- BUTADIENE
June 9, 1997
PRODUCER CAPACITY(*)...
- Healthy domestic demand for fine chemicals is attracting foreign investment, as the ...
- EU fertilizer makers say Russian producers are bypassing a price floor.
THE EU...
- DRUG MAKERS ARE URGING Congress to make sure that proposed medical privacy legislati...
- UNION CARBIDE Corporation has sold its plastics recycling operations to Los Angeles-...
- AGA AB AND LINDE AG's process engineering and contracting division have signed an ag...
- HOECHST AG and China's Nanning Chemical Industrial Group Co. Ltd. will become partne...
- Spurred by demand for healthy and nutritional ingredients, plant-derived ingredients...
- INDIA'S OSWAL CHEMICALS & Fertilizers Ltd. will build a major fertilizer complex...
- TRI-K INDUSTRIES INC. is launching a line of pre-formulated personal care ingredient...
- PQ CORPORATION PLANS to mothball one sodium silicate facility and close another foll...
- ANALYSTS ARE WARMING up to M.A. Hanna Company as it draws nearer to critical mass in...
- The expansions represent a strategic refocus on the company's core activities.
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- BAYER HAS SIGNED an agreement with its workforce, under which it is making certain i...
- PRICES FOR FLAVORS and fragrances are likely to remain depressed for the foreseeable...
- But returns are still below those in the US because of high costs.
PLASTICS AND P...
- MENTHOL PRODUCERS in the northern Indian state of Uddar Pradesh have gone on strike ...
- Pipeline links, like Bayer to Geon, are removing acid from the merchant market.
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- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has been working with registrants of chlorpyrifos (D...
- SODIUM HYDROSULFITE June 16, 1997
PRODUCER ...
- ALTUS BIOLOGICS Inc. has launched its SynthaCLEC-PA catalyst for the bulk manufactur...
- The company increases initial outlay to $1 billion.
RHONE-POULENC SA is forming a...
- The move could set off a process of industry streamlining in Japan.
JAPAN'S AWKWA...
- HOWELL EXITS CHEMICALS: Howell Corporation, Houston, will sell its research and refe...
- Hoechst/Bayer venture says it is competitive.
DYSTAR, A 50/50 joint venture in te...
- Ciba Specialty Chemicals has augmented its roster of photoinitiator patents with a p...
- BASF AG last week added to its roster of Asian dye-related projects a new joint-vent...
- Company employs multiple platforms to market new splittable surfactant; sees technol...
- SHELL OIL COMPANY and American Management Systems (AMS) have announced the completio...
- POLYETHYLENE NAPHTHALATE is ready to "take its place as the next break-out prod...
- SOARING DEMAND from the agricultural market has prompted another producer to plan an...
- HOECHST AG MANAGEMENT has given the go-ahead to add two grassroots acetyts plants to...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency's latest Toxic Release Inventory report shows that r...
- DYSTAR, THE 50-50 joint venture in textile dyes between Hoechst and Bayer, has confi...
- COPLEY PHARMACEUTICAL Inc. has plead guilty to a one-count criminal charge of lying ...
- ALCIDE CORPORATION and Novus International Inc. have signed an agreement granting No...
- The area's industry is faced with a public relations and lawsuit nightmare.
FO...
- Hoechst, the last supplier of UHMWPE to medical device makers, is concerned about ri...
- Spurred by demand for healthy and nutritional ingredients, plant-derived ingredients...
- MENTHOL PRODUCERS in the northern Indian state of Uddar Pradesh have gone on strike ...
- THE CUSTOMER HAS a simple proposition: He wants what he wants when he wants it--and ...
- The movement ta longer-term supply relationships is shaping strategies in technology...
- PRICES FOR MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS have begun to firm after their slide from mid1996. Do...
- AS FOOD PRODUCERS LOOK FOR MORE FLAVOR, less fat and better nutrition, suppliers at ...
- DONLAR CORPORATION has received eight new patents for its polyaspartate technology, ...
- BOREALIS HAS DECIDED to go ahead with a 50 percent expansion of its ethylene cracker...
- SOCIETE BEARNAISE de Synthese (SBS), a 75-25 joint venture between Produits Chimique...
- SOLVAY INTEROX Inc. will delay the startup of its new hydrogen peroxide plant under ...
- OLIN CORPORATION will build a major biocides plant in China at an undisclosed locati...
- SOLID GROWTH and above average profitability are projected for many specialty chemic...
- PET PRODUCERS ABE DIGGING in for the second price hike of the year for bottle resin,...
- Move will create the third largest fragrance house.
AFTER A SEVEN-YEAR engagement...
- DESPITE THE VEHEMENT opposition of virtually every. US industry, President Clinton l...
- BAYER AG has licensed its Baymicron micro capsules technology for making carbonless ...
- A COALITION OF SMALL businesses, including batch and custom chemical makers, called ...
- PENWEST LTD. has filed a paragraph IV Abbreviated New Drug Application with Food &am...
- Replacing fat and the development of hydrocolloid combinations are contributing to t...
- Facility in Saudi Arabia is part of a plan to grow polymer additives into a major bu...
- Leak at Ti[O.sub.2] plant follows a meeting with agency on other spills.
ICI HAS...
- OPTIMA CHEMICALS LLC has acquired the assets of Optima Chemicals Inc., a custom manu...
- AIRGAS INC.'S Airgas Direct industrial group subsidiary is making a key acquisition ...
- The company increases initial outlay to $1 billion.
RHONE-POULENC SA is forming a...
- MILLENNIUM PETROCHEMICALS Inc. has formed an alliance with Arlington Heights, Ill.-b...
- HAARMANN & REIMER Corporation, a subsidiary of Bayer AG, plans to divest its foo...
- E.I. Du PONT de Nemours & Co.'S packaging and industrial polymers division has s...
- CARPENTER TECHNOLOGY Corporation, based in Reading, Pa., will buy the structural cer...
- MITSUBISHI HEAVY Industries has won the contract to build an 850,000 metric ton meth...
- TOSOH CORPORATION'S unconsolidated results for fiscal year 1997 show net sales up 11...
- The movement ta longer-term supply relationships is shaping strategies in technology...
- EXPLOSIVE GROWTH in the nutritional supplement sector has captured the attention of ...
- NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL has honored a Koch Industries Inc. unit, which operates an a...
- HIGH-PURITY MTBE, though only a fraction of the overall MTBE market, is growing as a...
- AN UPCOMING PROPOSAL to establish a consolidated federal air rule for the synthetic ...
- The Strong demand for pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals propels Brazil to the top of...
- Agreement with Sinopec to include existing and new plants.
CHINA'S LONG-STANDING ...
- SMITH BARNEY analyst Robert Koort initiated coverage of Agrium Inc. with a neutral r...
- SEIZING ON NEW DATA released by Environmental Protection Agency that show a nationwi...
- Indorayon is leading the way for Asian fiber producers in the EU.
INDORAYON OF ...
- Demand for mildness is a plus for amphoteric surfactants, and interest in natural in...
- ULTRAMAR DIAMOND SHAMROCK Corporation (UDS) is building a new 1-billion-pound-per-ye...
- Tightness in feedstock bisphenol-A, however, is causing a temporary pinch.
Polyc...
- HUNTSMAN CORPORATION'S maleic anhydride technology will be the keystone of a major m...
- OCI WYOMING LP has hired Kvaerner Metals Davy nonferrous division to design and buil...
- REXENE CORPORATION has entered into a confidentiality agreement with Huntsman Corpor...
- Dow CHEMICAL COMPANY is launching what it calls a significant new low-pressure heat ...
- CALLAWAY CHEMICAL Company's Mayo division will expand production at its Smyrna, Ga.,...
- AFTER REVIEWING first quarter numbers for some of the majors, analysts adjusted 1997...
- A VOLUNTARY REPORTING system should be established to allow Environmental Protection...
- CREATING A FUTURE was the theme of Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Associat...
- MORTON INTERNATIONAL INC. will buy back another 10 million shares of its own stock. ...
- HULS AG's surfactants business unit has added two non-ionics to its product line tha...
- EXXON CHEMICAL COMPANY has declared force majeure on production of its Exceed brand ...
- Mass fragrance setbacks and consolidation stirred competition in 1996, as fragrance ...
- CALGON CORPORATION has formed a strategic alliance with Chemidyne Corporation to pro...
- Lysine is a driver in the corn processor's expansion.
STRONG DEMAND FOR LYSINE in...
- Indorayon is leading the way for Asian fiber producers in the EU.
INDORAYON OF IN...
- ERTISA, A SUBSIDIARY of the Spanish oil and petrochemicals group Cepsa, plans to dou...
- E.I. DU PONT de Nemours & Co. has proposed taking a 19.91 percent stake in Indon...
- GNI GROUP INC. SAYS revenues and net income were below expectations in the company's...
- Courtaulds disputes aid for Sniace while seeking help in Germany.
THE ISSUE OF ST...
- IN RESPONSE TO A MARKET with fight supply and high operating rates, two chlorine pro...
- AGFA GROUP, the photographic and imaging products subsidiary of Bayer, has signed a ...
- Tosoh CORPORATION intends to increase ethylene capacity at its Yokkaichi Complex in ...
- BASF is latest to join end-use-driven expansions. Markets remain balanced.
ACR...
- THE OPENING OF Schering-Plough Corporation's $200 million bulk pharmaceutical manufa...
- The aging baby boomer generation is offering new potential for the multi-billion dol...
- Purchase for $8 billion will reshape both ICI and the specialties sector.
ICI ...
- Shell Chemical Company will build a new grassroots plant to produce its Carlion line...
- OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM Corporation says that its strategy going forward will be to foc...
- Two GERMAN POLYETHYLENE wax producers intend to team up. The additives business unit...
- DONLAR CORPORATION plans to launch, over the next 12 to 18 months, a series of crop ...
- CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL authorities are urging state lawmakers who are seeking to b...
- VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS Inc. has been awared a broad patent covering Clec crosslinked...
- IN A VICTORY FOR PCS Nitrogen Inc. (formerly Arcadian Corporation), a three-judge pa...
- RPM INC. IS EXPANDING into South America. The company's Rust-Oleum Corporation subsi...
- Intermediates are targeted for global expansion, petrochemicals for an alliance.
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- UNION TEXAS ETHYLENE: Union Texas Petroleum Holdings Inc., Houston, says its portion...
- Nail care is the hot spot in the color cosmetics market, as non-traditional colors t...
- GROWTH IN DETERGENT alcohol consumption will be based largely on price competitivene...
- POLYOLEFIN MAKER, Borealis A/S is calling a halt to its plan to partner with China's...
- THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY is undergoing an IT sea change in which computer use is expand...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency is considering a possible rule change that would mak...
- E.I. Du PONT de Nemours & Co. will enter into a cooperative effort with the Bost...
- WACKER-CHEMIE GMBH is expanding in China, with plans to open a subsidiary in Shangha...
- Sovereign Specialty Chemicals LP has agreed to purchase Laporte PLC's North American...
- QUALITY BOTANICAL Ingredients Inc., is the new company name for the former Island Or...
- Sale to create No. 6 player and continue consolidation in the animal health market. ...
- A CHEMICAL INDUSTRY panel says it "strongly disagrees" with the results of...
- DRUG MAKERS ARE expressing strong support for a bipartisan Senate bill that would pr...
- POLYPROPYLENE
PRODUCER CAPACITY*
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- There is new momentum for an independent board to look into chemical mishaps.
TH...
- RHONE-POULENC AGRO and China's Hangzhou General Pesticide Plant have signed an agree...
- OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL Corporation's Oxsol solvent is becoming a valuable tool to meet ...
- WRIGHT CORPORATION has signed an agreement with MiCell Technologies Inc. to supply a...
- Capital spending, though, is focused on hydrocarbons.
"WE ARE HERE TO STAY...
- Eka Chemicals shelves plant while others idle capacity in effort to balance market. ...
- An extension for another Rhone-Poulenc product, the fungicide iprodione, is not bein...
- Lysine is a driver in the corn processor's expansion.
STRONG DEMAND FOR LYSINE ...
- SAUDI METHANOL Company (Ar-Razi), an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation...
- WITH GROWTH IN THE essential oil market slowing, the time appears right to look for ...
- Gist can market clavulanic acid outside of Europe.
GIST-BROCADES HAS REACHED an o...
- LIKE MANY COMPANIES, Cedar Chemical Corporation is looking to enhance the value of i...
- BP CHEMICALS has decided to license its polystyrene and expandable polystyrene manuf...
- ALLIEDSIGNAL INC. EXPECTS its HFC245fa (hydrofluorocarbon) foam blowing agent to hel...
- Technology-driven ICI must now learn to adopt market-focused approach.
ICI's AGR...
- ROUSSEL UCLAF is considering selling Biochimica Opos, its Italian producer of antibi...
- Demand for mildness is a plus for amphoteric surfactants, and interest in natural in...
- Its polypropylene venture with BASF is due to start up July 1.
HOECHST HAS STARTE...
- ETHANOL PRODUCERS are gearing up for a strong summer that should be much healthier t...
- COVANCE INC. has dedicated its new biotechnology manufacturing facility in Research ...
- BOC GASES HAS COMPLETED construction and commissioning of the largest cryogenic air ...
- IMC GLOBAL INC. HAS REACHED a definitive agreement to acquire potash producer Wester...
- ENGELHARD CORPORATION and Indianapolis, Ind.-based Heritage Environmental Services I...
- Company declares force majeure after HMDA plant fire.
CONSUMERS OF NYLON 6/6 may ...
- THE SENATE COMMERCE Committee earlier this month approved legislation that would rep...
- NOLTEX, A JOINT VENTURE of Nippon Gohsei (USA) Co. Ltd. and Mitsubishi Chemical Amer...
- THE FIRST QUARTER was a washout for fertilizer companies as wet weather conditions i...
- DURING CAUSTIC SODA'S precipitous pricing drop over the past several months, chloral...
- Several new products are poised to enter the market.
A FLURRY OF RECENT activit...
- Alliances between pharma and biotech players are becoming more strategic, as the foc...
- SUPPLY CONSTRAINTS in the paraffin wax market are now affecting the availability and...
- PRODUCER CAPACITY(*)
American Synthetic, ...
- A US court of appeals has reversed a controversial 1996 decision by an Alabama feder...
- SCHERING-PLOUGH has received marketing authorization from the British Medicines Cont...
- OM GROUP INC. has signed contracts with La Generale des Carriers et des Mines (Gecam...
- INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY Products Inc. has introduced a new hair styling resin that i...
- END-OF-YEAR STATISTICS are showing healthy growth across the board for the pharmaceu...
- ELF ATOCHEM North America is planning a Siliporite molecular sieve plant at its site...
- CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS says capacity expansion for its triclosan antibacterial che...
- PETROCHEMICAL Corporation of Singapore Pte. Ltd. is now operating its new naphtha cr...
- Specialty fertilizer maker growing strongly since its formation last year.
IN RE...
- Prices should peak in summer, then start to drop.
BULK POLYMER PRICES in Western ...
- Imperial Chemical Industries PLC expects trading to get increasingly tough in the re...
- DUPONT PACKAGING and Industrial Polymers has hired ABB Lummus Heat Transfer to build...
- Cambrex Corporation posted 20 percent higher net income of $7.45 million in the firs...
- THE US AND CANADA agreed last week on specific targets for reducing toxic chemical p...
- PENEDERM HAS FORMED an agreement with SmithKline Beecham to co-develop an OTC produc...
- MONSANTO COMPANY'S crop protection business unit has been granted a label for the ap...
- ICI SURFACTANTS has obtained two awards for excellence in business performance.
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- AS INVESTORS AWAIT first quarter results, analysts project strong volume growth to c...
- DONLAR CORPORATION has created a subsidiary and named executives in its effort to co...
- THE TECHNICAL BOARD of Appeal's of the European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked Biog...
- SAMEDAN OIL CORPORATION, a wholly owned subsidiary of Noble Affiliates, has entered ...
- RHONE-POULENC SA has bought a 41 percent shareholding in one of China's leading prod...
- THE OVERCROWDED WORLD vanillin market, growing at a slim 2 to 3 percent per year, is...
- MIAMI-RASED IVAX CORPORATION says that Food & Drug Administration has granted te...
- THE DEXTER CORPORATION has acquired from Herberts, a coatings subsidiary of Hoechst ...
- BASF CORPORATION enjoyed record earnings in 1996, as sales climbed 2 percent to $6.3...
- ALBEMARLE CORPORATION'S board of directors has approved construction of a dedicated ...
- FCI TECHNOLOGIES has commenced operations in Bessemer City, N.C., to focus on specia...