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May 24, 2013
The European Commission says it has launched a campaign for coordinated public investment in micro- and nano-electronics, including semiconductors and computer chips. The campaign is...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/EU-launches-campaign-for-coordinated-investment-in-micro-and-nano-electronics_52260.html May 24, 2013
Croda has completed the acquisition of Arizona Chemical's (Jacksonville, FL) specialty products business, a producer of naturally derived polyamides. "The varied...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Croda-acquires-Arizona-Chemicals-specialty-products-business_52288.html May 24, 2013
Trade talks between China and the European Union over the price of solar panels exported from China to the European Union have reached an impasse, according to various European and...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Reports-EU-China-fail-to-reach-agreement-in-solar-panel-trade-talks_52264.html May 24, 2013
Poland plans to delay a proposed tax on shale-gas exploration until 2020, after several foreign energy companies, including ExxonMobil and Marathon, decided to stop exploration there...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/poland/Poland-to-delay-tax-on-shale-gas-until-2020_52290.html May 24, 2013
The European Commission has adopted a restriction on the use of 3 neonicotinoids that have been associated in recent years with a decline in the number and health of honeybees. The...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/EU-wide-restriction-on-use-of-neonicotinoids-to-be-in-force-from-1-December_52289.html May 24, 2013
Air Liquide says it has renewed its framework agreement with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS; Paris), for cooperation and research, for a period of five years...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/Air-Liquide-and-CNRS-renew-cooperation-and-research-agreement_52284.html May 24, 2013
Dow Corning says it has extended its distribution agreement with Univar to serve the needs of the pressure sensitive industry in Europe. Univar, as a result, will extend the geographic...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Dow-Corning-and-Univar-extend-distribution-agreement-in-Europe_52283.html May 24, 2013
Vladimir Putin at Voronezh. Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the commissioning ceremony of Sibur’s styrene butadiene styrene thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) unit at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/russia/Russian-president-attends-Siburs-commissioning-of-TPE-unit-at-Voronezh_52280.html May 23, 2013
Tanker operator Eitzen Chemical (Oslo) says its Ebitda more than doubled in the first quarter of 2013 compared with the fourth quarter of 2012, to $10.5 million. Revenue was not...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Tanker-operator-Eitzen-posts-big-increase-in-Ebitda_52268.html May 23, 2013
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) has invited additional comments on proposals for harmonized classification and labeling (CLH) for etridiazole, used as a fungicide to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/ECHA-calls-for-new-round-of-comments-on-reproductive-toxicity-and-carcinogenicity-of-etridiazole_52257.html May 23, 2013
Polystyrene (PS) demand is expected to be lower worldwide this year compared with last year, according to the latest IHS Chemical Market Advisory Service: Global Plastics &...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Global-PS-demand-expected-to-be-lower-in-2013-because-of-high-feedstock-costs-product-substitution_52256.html May 23, 2013
Solvay says it has decided to invest an undisclosed sum to build a production unit for the biobased nylon polymer PA6,10 at at Saint-Fons, France. The plant is intended to meet demand...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Solvay-to-build-biobased-nylon-production-facility-in-France_51675.html May 23, 2013
DSM has opened a manufacturing plant at Geleen, Netherlands, for the production of the company’s antireflective coatings, marketed as KehpriCoat. The coating is primarily...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/DSM-opens-antireflective-coatings-plant-in-Netherlands_51690.html May 23, 2013
Lonza says that it will permanently close its biocides manufacturing site at Swords, Ireland, in June. The Swords site became a part of Lonza through the acquisition of Arch Chemicals...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Lonza-to-close-Ireland-biocides-manufacturing-plant-in-June_51689.html May 23, 2013
Stolt-Nielsen posted a fall in unaudited net profits for the first quarter of 2013 to $1.5 million, from $8 million in the corresponding quarter of 2012, on sales of $519.4...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Stolt-Nielsen-reports-lower-first-quarter-net-profits_51685.html May 23, 2013
Vopak reports a 1% decrease in first-quarter operating profit excluding exceptional items, to €138.4 million ($180 million), compared with the first quarter of last year....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Vopaks-profit-slips-in-the-first-quarter_51684.html May 23, 2013
Bayer says that Johannes Schubmehl was appointed CIO of Bayer HealthCare on 1 May. He succeeded Matthias Moritz, who left the com Johannes Schubmehl pany at the end of March. Schubmehl...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Bayer-HealthCare-appoints-new-CIO_52253.html May 23, 2013
PPG Industries says it has started manufacturing protective and marine coatings (PMC) at the company’s facility at Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland. The facility became a part...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/poland/PPG-starts-production-of-protective-and-marine-coatings-at-Poland-facility_52252.html May 23, 2013
Rosneft (Moscow) and Mitsui & Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop jointly Rosneft’s previously announced Far East Petrochemical Co. (Fepco) project near Nakhodka, in Russia’s far east. The world-scale petrochemical complex, in its first stage, will be able to process 3.4 million m.t./year of feedstock, predominantly naphtha....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/russia/Rosneft-and-Mitsui-sign-MOU-to-develop-Russian-petchem-site_51680.html May 23, 2013
Solvay says it has broken ground on a previously announced facility that will produce highly dispersible silica (HDS), at Włocławek, Poland. The new 85,000-m.t./year HDS plant...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/poland/Solvay-breaks-ground-on-silica-plant-in-Poland_52251.html |
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