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May 15, 2013
Arkema's first-quarter adjusted net income contracted by 21.1% from €123 million ($159.7 million) in the first quarter of 2012, to €97 million, the company announced today...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Arkemas-first-quarter-net-income-shrinks-by-21-1-percent-on-mixed-economic-environment_52011.html May 15, 2013
Jacobs Engineering says it has renewed its frame agreement with Borealis for work at Borealis’s manufacturing facilities at Stenungsund, Sweden. Jacobs, under the five-year frame...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Jacobs-renews-engineering-services-agreement-with-Borealis-in-Sweden_52006.html May 15, 2013
Linde says its Linde Gases division has launched a crop science business. The product and service offering was previously referred to as its fumigants business. “The move to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Linde-launches-crop-science-business_52004.html May 14, 2013
Linde’s profit in the first quarter of 2013 rose 10%, to €340 million ($446 million), with earnings per share of €1.72 compared with €1.65 in the year-earlier...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Linde-reports-higher-profits-and-revenues-confirms-short-and-mid-term-outlooks_51766.html May 14, 2013
Oxea's (Oberhausen, Germany) first-quarter results includ a net profit up more than 31%, to €21 million ($27 million) compared with €16 million in the same quarter last...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Oxeas-net-profit-up-31-percent-during-the-first-quarter_51981.html May 14, 2013
An appeal preventing Tata Chemicals Europe (TCE; Northwich, UK), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Chemicals (Mumbai), from building an energy-from-waste (EfW) facility to supply the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Tata-given-go-ahead-for-EfW-project-to-power-UK-soda-ash-plant_51980.html May 14, 2013
K+S (Kassel, Germany) reported a 13% rise in first-quarter adjusted group earnings from continued operations, to €190.2 million ($247.38 million), with revenues advancing 19%, to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/K+S-reports-higher-first-quarter-earnings-confirms-2013-outlook_51974.html May 14, 2013
Merck KGaA’s first-quarter net income rose 54%, to €266 million ($345.9 million), on 4% higher revenues, of €2.76 billion, the company announced today. “Merck got...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Merck-KGaA-raises-first-quarter-sales-and-profits-will-meet-targets-one-year-early_51972.html May 14, 2013
Linde says its BOC subsidiary has signed a long-term agreement to supply industrial gases to Sahaviriya Steel Industries United Kingdom (SSI UK; Redcar, UK), which is a wholly owned...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/uk/Linde-signs-long-term-supply-deal-with-SSI-UK_51969.html May 13, 2013
Solvay posted a 16% fall in first-quarter net income compared with the corresponding period of 2012, to €101 million, on sales down 3%, to €3 billion. Recurring Ebitda...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Weak-demand-in-Europe-weighs-on-Solvays-first-quarter-results_51953.html May 13, 2013
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) is leading a consortium sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bonn) to develop cobalt-based, dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Merck-KGaA-leads-international-consortium-to-develop-cobalt-based-dye-sensitized-solar-cells_51950.html May 13, 2013
The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention has agreed to begin phasing out the use of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in little more than a year...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Report-Stockholm-Convention-agrees-on-phaseout-of-HBCD_51948.html May 12, 2013
The central theme of the latest BASF research conference, held recently in Ludwigshafen, was “Chemistry powers energy: Renewable generation, safe storage, and efficient transport...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/BASF-R-and-D-conference-Chemistry-powers-energy_51933.html May 10, 2013
The European Commission is planning to introduce tariffs of up to 67.9% on EU imports of solar panels from China, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), which claims...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Report-EU-to-impose-huge-tariffs-on-imports-of-solar-panels-from-China_51917.html May 10, 2013
Evonik has started basic engineering for a production plant for precipitated silica in Brazil and expects to complete the plant by 2015, subject to approval from respective bodies and...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Evonik-starts-basic-engineering-for-silica-site-in-Brazil-continues-to-expand-global-silica-capacity_51908.html May 10, 2013
A train transporting chemical and nonchemical products derailed in the town of Belaya Kalitva, in the Rostov-on-Don Region, Russia, about 1,000 kilometers from Moscow, on 9 May...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/russia/Reports-Freight-train-derailment-in-Russia-causes-chemical-leak_51905.html May 10, 2013
BASF plans to produce biobased 1,4-butanediol (BDO) using Genomatica's (San Diego) patented process, the companies announced today. The one-step fermentation process produces a...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/BASF-and-Genomatica-team-up-to-produce-biosourced-BDO_51903.html May 10, 2013
Indebted petrochemical producer Oltchim (Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania), will lay off a quarter of its staff starting next week, according to reports in the Romanian press. About...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/eastern_europe/hungary/Report-Romanias-Oltchim-to-lay-off-25-percent-of-its-staff_51883.html May 10, 2013
European margins for caprolactam could swing back to a loss as fundamentals for May are expected to be unfavorable, IHS chemical says in its latest Global Nylon Fibers & Feedstocks...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/European-caprolactam-margins-under-pressure_51848.html May 8, 2013
Lanxess today reported first-quarter sales of €2.1 billion ($2.8 billion), a 12% decline year-on-year (YOY), and pre-exceptional Ebitda of €174 million compared with €369 million in the year-ago period, a fall of 53%...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Lanxess-earnings-drop-on-weak-demand-measures-planned-to-cut-costs_51847.html |
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