Stories Collection
- As THE CLINTON Administration begins its campaign to gain domestic support for a glo...
- ELEMENTAL PHOSPHORUS' largest end use, thermal phosphoric acid, continues to lose ma...
- Commission requires Veba to sell its holding in silica venture with Cabot.
DEG...
- Rail congestion hits chemical shippers' and manufacturers' pocketbooks as the indust...
- SEVERAL OF THE MAJOR flavor and fragrance players have announced recent expansions o...
- Defying expectations, basic chemical stocks are doing well.
COMMODITY PETROCHEM...
- VERTICAL INTEGRATION is the name of the game for Borden Chemicals & Plastics LP....
- DOING THE DEAL doesn't mean the deal is done. Once you've set your strategies, scree...
- Company plans to complete projects in region.
CONTINUED STRONG performance in U...
- Analyst sees good fit between Allied Colloids and Cytec
SPECIALTY CHEMICAL stoc...
- BASF GROUP SHOULD DELIVER its best overall performance since 1989 this year, but the...
- Terminalers grapple with rail gridlock, regulations and higher operating costs.
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- US SOYBEAN OIL PRICES are fluctuating moderately as exports to Asian, coupled with t...
- HEALTH AND environmental concerns are the major factors behind a rising demand in ma...
- Two OIL AND GAS service companies have back-integrated their business to supply thei...
- PERCHLOROETHYLENE December 15, 1997
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- MONTEDISON GROUP, Italy's second largest industrial conglomerate, has begun an aggre...
- Increased sales to vinyl industry have transf0rmcd industry. THE HYDROCHLORIC ACID m...
- With the buildup of petrochemical capacity in Southeast Asia, chemical shippers eval...
- BAYER AG SAYS it is confident about future growth in Asia Pacific and confirms its p...
- Bid is third attempt by Hercules to meet growth target through acquisition.
HE...
- Failure of US and Europe authorities to settle could cause shortages.
WESTERN ...
- FMC CORPORATION, announcing it will fall significantly short of Wall Street's fourth...
- PATCHOULI OIL PRICES continue to rise as the oil's tight supply and current producti...
- Much-delayed new capacity expected to cut feedstock pressure for producers.
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- Joint venture will depolymerize nylon 6-based carpet into caprolactam for sale or re...
- Western European chemical companies are increasingly outsourcing logistics and trans...
- TEXAS GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH says that 10 chemical, oil and other companies that have o...
- THE US CHEMICAL INDUSTRY expects to enjoy record profits next year, driven by modest...
- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, plagued since summer by wrecks, fatalities, massive delays a...
- The R-P chemical unit will add caprolactam using new technology.
RHONE-POULENC'...
- PRODUCTION AND SALES of plastics resins experienced healthy growth in 1997, accordin...
- Restructuring program is aimed at raising gross margins.
FERRO CORPORATION has ...
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE Fund last week identified 11 major US chemical manufacturers t...
- Nalco Chemical Company has selected Emax Solution Partners to implement its SAP R/3 ...
- THE NORTH AMERICAN NAPHTHALENE market is balanced despite the start of two expansion...
- Supreme Court decision seen as important step in keeping unfounded scientific opinio...
- THE ASIAN CURRENCY Crisis is hurting the petrochemical industry, particularly those ...
- SEVERAL COMPANIES are beginning to market alternatives to perchloroethylene for the ...
- CHEMICAL PROFILE
TRICHLOROETHYLENE December 8, 1997
PRODUCER CAPACITY(*)...
- Purchase will also change complexion of chelating agents business worldwide.
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- AFTER A DECLINE that lasted more than a decade, sodium tripolyphosphate makers Albri...
- Strong growth, however, may not be enough to absorb all North American resin project...
- DESPITE A SERIES of SUCCESSfUl titanium dioxide price hikes, margins remain low, sig...
- Bayer Supends TDI Project
AFTER 18 MONTHS of intense negotiations on its TDI in...
- METHANEX CORPORATION is claiming continued success in its quest to be the global lea...
- VETIVER PRICES ARE ON THE move upward as supply from some sources has become unavail...
- Fluor-Stone & Webster may be harbinger for business.
ENGINEERING COMPANIES ...
- A NEW INDUSTRY-STANDARD application program interface, Open MP, has been developed t...
- Smaller players are appearing in the shadow of the salt giants.
THE CONSOLIDATI...
- THE SODA ASH MARKET is beginning to show strain following the impact of the Asian ec...
- SCHUMANN SASOL INTERNATIONAL AG, a subsidiary of South Africa's Sasol Ltd., has adva...
- BIODIESEL REMAINS a small player in alternative fuels but it has made promising inro...
- DEMAND FOR CHIRAL intermediates is growing considerably, primarily on the heels of n...
- Chemical companies are increasingly outsourcing logistics as a way to enhance their ...
- THE FINE CHEMICALS ARENA is experiencing a high level of business activity. Several ...
- TETRA TECHNOLOGIES INC. is not a household name in the chemical industry, but its fa...
- WHILE MOST PEOPLE DON'T COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT WITH CHEMICALS, THE CHEMICAL INDUST...
- Actual processes have been developed several years ago.
LARGE COMPANIES are tak...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has concluded that while the threat of terrorism aga...
- Analysts see further moves in UK chemical sector, as Asia looks less appealing.
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- WHEN WILLIAM ALLISON started publishing the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter in October ...
- The chemical industry moves into the supply chain management fold and evaluates new ...
- THE GUM ARABIC industry has been plunged into a political quagmire due to congressio...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency has placed much greater emphasis on mandating the su...
- CHEMICAL PROFILE
PENTAERYTHRITOL December 29, 1997
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- CHLOROACETIC ACID December 22, 1997
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- JV will shore up Bayer business and give GE its first production in Europe.
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- STYRENE BUTADIENE LATEX is sloughing off its image of a dowager polymer as manufactu...
- FATTY ACID PRICES continue to rise and producers are all citing the same reasons for...
- Global debate is underway over unifying requirements for labeling and classifying ch...
- As ANYBODY WHO HAS fought for a budget knows, there's nothing more sensitive or cont...
- Lyondell and Millennium will link crackers and shift PE in big merger.
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- As environmental pressures increase on solvent-borne coatings, leading producers eva...
- AS INDUSTRIES HAVE NEARLY exhausted all avenues for streamlining their businesses to...
- RECENT PRICE INCREASES for sodium silicate's main raw material, soda ash, are leadin...
- ALLIEDSIGNAL Performance Fibers has introduced a new body armor that the company say...
- PIONEER COMPANIES Inc. has completed the acquisition of the North American chloralka...
- PALM OIL PRICES are steady at 27.25 cents per pound for now, but traders are hesitan...
- Polymer producers pursue long-term payoff despite current trends.
DESPITE METAL...
- Company leverages its fermentation knowledge to make DHA.
MONSANTO COMPANY is i...
- Waterborne formulations are increasing their share of the market for highway and tra...
- AUXILIARY CHEMICAL Products and Synthesis Products (PCAS) of Longjumeau, France, is ...
- Celanese restart and projects by Kohap, Stepan and Koppers are making marketers nerv...
- GENEVA PHARMACEUTICALS, part of thc Global Generics sector of Novartis, has received...
- CAMBREX CORPORATION is reorganizing its management Peter Tracey, currently executive...
- Strong dollar is keeping imports out, but observers see a decline on horizon.
PO...
- CHEMICAL PROFILE
METHYLENE CHLORIDE November 24, 1997
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- AFTER A YEAR OF STALEMATE and months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, members of t...
- Holliday dispells talk of big pharmaceutical buy or split into separate firms.
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- As the paints and coatings industry adopts waterborne, high solids and energy-cured ...
- Companies are faced with continuously tightening controls.
LOWEST ACHIEVABLE em...
- Roche leads business, but Cyanotcch is in pursuit.
ASTAXANTHIN, WHICH IS ADDED ...
- Automotive coating suppliers continue to develop and market products with low volati...
- Early this month, President Clinton imposed sweeping sanctions against Sudan for all...
- THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE and the major chemical manufacturers in Marseilles are prom...
- THE GOVERNMENT OF FRANCE and the major chemical manufacturers in Marseilles are prom...
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Agency is evaluating the possibility of imposing controls o...
- Jacksonville and Widnes also getting capacity increases.
BUSH BOAKE ALLEN INC. ...
- Emphasis on site management may spur consolidation.
INORGANIC CHEMICALS used in...
- PHYTO-RIKER PHARMACEUTICALS Inc., a Wall St.-based investment group, made the winnin...
- Western European coatings manufacturers are waiting for improved economic growth to ...
- New products continue to drive sales in the third quarter
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPAN...
- A COMPREHENSIVE Superfund reform bill crafted by Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (RN.Y.), the...
- Regulations shape the solvents landscape. New methods in evaluating VOC classificati...
- JLM INDUSTRIES INC. had pro forma earnings per share from continuing operations of 2...
- Newer equipment and lower costs to put established US players on defensive.
TH...
- SODIUM CHLORATE DEMAND has improved substantially this year in the wake of the pulp ...
- FOLIC ACID PRODUCERS are eyeing their markets as they prepare for the implementation...
- Region set for another round of growth, despite political instability.
THREE N...
- ANGUS CHEMICAL Company has opened a new production facility in Sterlington, La. The ...
- Regulatory pressure to eliminate heavy metals and the push to enhance physical and c...
- Wellman gains from PET upturn; Sterling posts a loss.
CONTINUED WEAKNESS in the...
- Currency problems in Asia may have long-term impact on exports from US firms.
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- METHANOL--Spot and contract methanol prices remain around 59c. per gallon, and MTBF'...
- PRODUCER CAPACITY*
American Chrome, Corpus Christi, Tex ...
- Transportation emergency in thc region is drawing wider circles.
More GULF COAST ...
- ULTRAMAR DIAMOND Shamrock Corporation (UDS) has signed a memorandum of understanding...
- METHYL CHLORIDE November 17, 1997
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- GREAT LAKES CHEMICAL Corporation has completed its acquisition of Cookson Group PLC'...
- Already dominating the architectural market, waterborne begins to penetrate industri...
- EXPORTS BY US chemical manufacturers are on pace to set another record in 1997 and s...
- Plans by Laporte and Harcros to emphasize pigment units.
THE NORTH AMERICAN iro...
- BTX--The November benzene contract has settled at $1 per gallon, up from 95c. in Oct...
- AN INDUSTRY COALITION is backing a plan by a bipartisan group of lawmakers to fix so...
- Market awaits startup of Roche-Cargill natural E venture.
BOTH SYNTHETIC AND NATU...
- CANOLA OIL PRICES are on an upswing as the product's perceived health benefits stimu...
- MENTHOL PRICING continues to be erratic as the aroma chemical has swung from celesti...
- PRAXAIR ARGENTINA has signed a con tract with Siderca to supply all of the oxygen, n...
- Powder coatings makers and their resins suppliers are under pressure to develop new ...
- Local companies are not able to meet rising demand due to lack of investment in capa...
- PRO-ETHANOL SENATORS suffered a setback last week in their bid to extend the tax inc...
- ENERGY BIOSYSTEMS continues to make significant progress in the development of its m...
- TWO SUPERFUND REFORM bills under consideration by a House subcommittee create a &quo...
- Newer equipment and lower costs to put established US players on defensive.
THE ...
- Regulations are scheduled for January, but key issues of supply are unresolved.
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- THE LARGEST US PROVIDER of fish meal and oil has bolstered its presence with a new a...
- MYCOGEN CORPORATION, San Diego, has entered into a licensing agreement with Washingt...
- There is no rest for the top global producers of paints and coatings. Athough not ma...
- ACCIDENT-PLAGUED Union Pacific Railroad, beset by angry chemical shippers who can't ...
- MG GENERON has introduced a new series of portable containerized systems that produc...
- AIRGAS INC. has completed its previously announced acquisition of JWS Technologies I...
- WITH CHINESE CEDARWOOD oil readily available and underselling US varieties, at lest ...
- Coatings Exposition in Atlanta is a new product forum.
NEW PRODUCTS DEBUTED at th...
- MAJOR JAPANESE chemical producers announced good first half-year (1H) results. Altho...
- Strong markets at home and abroad are buoying 1997 for German firms.
BAYER AND...
- Projects in Brazil and Argentina are moving ahead.
AUCTION PLANS for Pemex Petr...
- Clean air committee chairman's bill would set back EPA standards.
WITH TIME RU...
- RUCO POLYMER has unveiled Rucote 557, a carboxyl terminated polyester designed for f...
- ARISTECH CHEMICAL Corporation has awarded two contracts for the design and construct...
- WORLD DEMAND for methyl tert- butyl ether for use as a gasoline oxygenate could rang...
- THE CONGESTION-PLAGUED Union Pacific Railroad concedes that its earlier promise to r...
- SUKGING GROWTH IN THE "green" tire market is driving precipitated silica m...
- Cost-containment pressures by paper mills are increasing the use of recycled fiber a...
- No. 2 producer Bruner Mond remains opposed to decision, expecting sporadic dumping. ...
- ZEELAND CHEMICALS, a Cambrex Corporation company, has completed installation of a ne...
- Additional capacity is putting even more pressure on prices.
JUST A FEW WEEKS i...
- US growth is slowing, while producers look overseas for opportunity.
Asia and ...
- The increase is not expected to be passed on to large detergent users.
NATURAL...
- Dimer Acid Makers Are Cheered By Supply Slide, Demand Rise
THE EXIT OF A COMPET...
- US and European players take refuge in high-end products.
THE ANTIBIOTICS MARKE...
- Digital printing offers new opportunities for specialty inks, and the industry advan...
- FORMOSA PLASTICS TEXAS, vilified for years by environmental groups and fined heavily...
- As EL NINO TEARS THROUGH the tropical Pacific, essential oil suppliers and brokers a...
- ALLIEDSIGNAL INC. will take a giant leap in the specialty wax business with an agree...
- Facing increased consolidation, middle-market and regional players use a variety of ...
- Imports have the low end, and are aiming at higher markets.
NORTH AMERICAN manu...
- Exxon executive sees two sectors working together to improve profitability.
TH...
- Through a series of new pulp and paper investments, Brazil is strengthening its posi...
- SPECIALTY CHEMICALS earnings arc a mixed bag in the third quarter. Volumes for the m...
- THE FOOD AND DRUG Administration has issued final labeling regulations designed spec...
- LAWMAKERS ARE MAKING a last-ditch effort to reform the nation's hazardous waste clea...
- Chlorine is still the workhorse disinfectant for municipal drinking water, but commu...
- APPROACHING $50 MILLION in annual sales, Paterson, N.J.-based Mona Industries Inc. i...
- PETROCHEMICAL FEEDSTOCKS suppliers in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi are planning ...
- After navigating through its most recent downturn when pulp prices fell about 50 per...
- AFTER TWO YEARS WITHOUT A PRICE MOVE, sodium bicarbonate producers are seeking what ...
- ELECTRONICS CHEMICAL producers are surging from continued growth in demand for elect...
- As SPECIALTY CHEMICAL earnings trickle in, Wall Street foresees double-digit percent...
- Although showing slow to moderate growth in the US, Europe and Japan, the water trea...
- HOUSE AND SENATE budget negotiators have agreed on a fiscal 1998 funding plan for En...
- CMA president sees 'cold war mentality' eroding and an emergence of a common ground....
- CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE October 27, 1997
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CAPAC...
- The US antifreeze market is the business' only weak link.
THE ETHYLENE GLYCOL m...
- CONSUMPTION OF metallocene-catalyzed polyethylenes is expected to reach 2.2 million ...
- Demand is up, but producers still can't increase prices; rationalization is expected...
- FERRIC CHLORIDE October 13, 1997
PRODUCER ...
- Products are projected to display long-term growth as feedstocks.
THE MARKET FO...
- AFTER SELLING TWO non-core businesses and naming a new president, the specialty chem...
- ONCE AGAIN, the US orange crop will set a record as Florida's Department of Citrus p...
- Company would consider sale, joint venture or spinoff of currently unprofitable busi...
- THE BRAZILIAN ETHANOL market is on the verge of major changes that could affect the ...
- Plant is latest Western investment in Chinese petrochems.
PHILLIPS PETROLEUM Co...
- GLOBAL DEMAND FOR polyurethanes in both traditional market segments and new applicat...
- EVERYONE KNOWS that enterprise transformarion is a massive, complicated restructurin...
- IN THE SMALL AND HIGHLY regionalized merchant market for strong nitric acid (98 perc...
- Moderate growth is projected for the market for recovered paper, and chemical produc...
- A RECENT STUDY indicates that 26 percent of companies currently outsource at least o...
- Sector in Europe, however, is falling further behind the US in competitiveness.
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