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May 7, 2013
Flexitallic Group (Houston) is in the process of being acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint (London), Flexitallic has announced. The €450-million ($590 million)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Private-equity-firm-Bridgepoint-acquires-sealant-solutions-firm_51803.html May 7, 2013
DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products (DuPont Tate & Lyle), a joint venture between DuPont and agrobusiness firm Tate & Lyle, says it has partnered with preservatives...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/DuPont-Tate-and-Lyle-RML-develop-biobased-personal-care-ingredients_51819.html May 7, 2013
Biobased plastics firm Cereplast (El Segundo, CA) says it will relocate its corporate headquarters to Seymour, IN, to save costs and move its European headquarters to Milan in order to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Cereplast-announces-restructuring_51817.html May 7, 2013
(This story has been corrected. An earlier version stated that Westlake's first quarter net income increased by 190% YOY, whereas the actual increase was 40%. We regret the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Westlake-earnings-leap-40-percent-YOY-beat-street-estimate-corrected_51768.html May 7, 2013
A Harvard Law School study says disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing via FracFocus—a voluntary registry endorsed by 11 states and the Bureau of Land Management...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Study-says-fracking-disclosure-registry-FracFocus-deficient_51814.html May 7, 2013
Dow AgroSciences says US regulatory authorities have approved a new insecticidal active ingredient, sulfoxaflor, to be marketed in the United States. Sulfoxaflor belongs to a novel...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Dow-insecticide-receives-US-regulatory-approval_51812.html May 7, 2013
Mishaps and mechanical problems from 2012 exacted a heavy cost on the first quarter results of LSB Industries’ (Oklahoma City, OK) chemical business. On Monday the company...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/LSB-Industries-chemical-segment-reports-1Q-loss-on-downtime_51794.html May 7, 2013
Distributor Univar says it has appointed Marco Antonio Quirino as its new president of Univar Brazil. Quirino will manage the company’s Brazil business and operations and will...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Univar-appoints-new-president-of-Brazil-operations_51800.html May 6, 2013
MACROECONOMIC STATUS Our running tab of positive indicators slipped by 1, to 14 out of 20 this week. Thus, we continue to post a green banner. Payroll employment up 165,000...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/ACCs-economic-outlook-for-the-week-ended-3-May-2013_51769.html May 6, 2013
ACC today launched a new Responsible Care product safety code, requiring member companies to implement 11 management practices to evaluate and continuously improve product safety performance....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/us/ACC-adds-product-safety-Responsible-Care-code_51778.html May 6, 2013
Glass Lewis (San Francisco), a corporate governance research and proxy advisory firm, has endorsed Ferro’s three board nominees—Richard Brown, Gregory Hyland, and Ronald...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Proxy-advisory-firm-endorses-Ferro-director-slate_51779.html May 6, 2013
Calgon Carbon today reported net income up 27.3% year-on-year (YOY), to $9.8 million, on sales down 1.2%, to $135 million. Earnings totaled 18 cts/share, beating analysts’...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Calgon-Carbon-earnings-rise-27-percent_51777.html May 6, 2013
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) says it will close its fragrance ingredient manufacturing plant at Augusta, GA, by July 2014 as part of the company’s...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/IFF-to-close-Georgia-fragrance-ingredients-plant_51776.html May 6, 2013
SI Group (Schenectady, NY), a resins and phenols maker, has named Frank Bozich president and CEO, replacing the retiring Stephen Large. Bozich was most recently president/catalysts at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/SI-Group-names-BASF-exec-CEO_51774.html May 6, 2013
The West Fertilizer Co. plant that exploded on 17 April killing 14 people, injuring over 200 others, and causing millions of dollars in damage was recently found to be holding...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/West-Fertilizer-Co-held-$1-million-in-liability-coverage-faced-multiple-robberies_51770.html May 6, 2013
LG Chem Michigan Inc. (LGCMI) says it will begin commercial production of automotive lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cells in July at its Holland, MI, facility once it has...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/LG-Chem-Michigan-Inc-plans-July-start-up-for-Michigan-battery-plant_51767.html May 3, 2013
A fire at an ethylene purification unit at Formosa Plastics’ complex at Point Comfort, TX yesterday, injured 14 people. Eight of the injured have been treated and released as of Friday morning, according to a company spokesperson. The fire occurred in an ethylene purification area near the site’s “PE 1” high-density polyethylene (HDPE) production unit. ...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Fire-injures-14-at-Formosas-Point-Comfort-TX-site_51743.html May 3, 2013
Chemicals sector rail traffic in North America declined 3.4% year-on-year (YOY) during the week ended 27 April, to 43,315 cars, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Chemicals-sector-rail-traffic-down-3-4-percent_51756.html May 3, 2013
Koppers today reported net income down 27.7% year-on-year (YOY), to $11 million, or 53 cts/share, on sales down 2.8%, to $370.4 million. Adjusted earnings of 54 cts/share fell short of...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Koppers-earnings-down-on-lower-sales_51755.html May 3, 2013
Private equity firm Sun Capital (Boca Raton, FL) says it will combine five of the packaging companies its owns under its Exopack Holdings (Spartanburg, SC) investment. The...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Sun-Capital-to-combine-packaging-investments-under-Exopack_51745.html |
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