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March 28, 2013
Huntsman says it is investing a combined $135 million at two of its methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) manufacturing facilities—specifically, increasing capacity at its...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Huntsman-invests-$135-million-in-MDI-updates_50686.html March 28, 2013
Vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) has, as expected, been put into receivership by the commercial court of Lyon. The move follows a filing for insolvency with the court by Kem One's...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Kem-One-enters-receivership-Arkema-denies-responsibility_50786.html March 28, 2013
Perstorp and Johnson Matthey say that Johnson Matthey has acquired Perstorp’s formaldehyde technology and catalyst business, Formox (Perstorp, Sweden), for 1.05 billion Swedish...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/uk/Johnson-Matthey-acquires-Perstorps-formaldehyde-technology-and-catalyst-business_50783.html March 27, 2013
Dow Chemical says that the previously announced Enlight polyolefin encapsulant film production plant at Schkopau, Germany, has been completed and the first commercial quantities have...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Dow-starts-up-polyolefin-encapsulant-film-production-in-Germany_50760.html March 27, 2013
BASF says it will combine its water solutions, oil field solutions, and mining solutions businesses, effective 1 April, to create a new global business unit. The restructuring involves...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/BASF-merges-water-oil-field-and-mining-businesses-cuts-215-jobs_50764.html March 27, 2013
The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation into the planned acquisition by Nynas (Stockholm) of refinery assets at Harburg from Shell Deutschland Oil. The...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/EU-launches-in-depth-probe-into-acquisition-of-Shell-base-oils-plant-in-Germany_50763.html March 27, 2013
The European Commission has approved the proposed acquisition of Petrochem Carless (Leatherhead, UK) by Haltermann Holding (Hamburg). The commission says its investigation...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/European-Commission-approves-Haltermanns-acquisition-of-Petrochem-Carless_50762.html March 27, 2013
Bayer says it has appointed Markus Steilemann as the new head of its polycarbonates business unit. He succeeds Michael Koenig, who will join the board of management of Bayer on 1...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/germany/Bayer-appoints-new-head-of-polycarbonates-business_50759.html March 26, 2013
Troubled vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) was scheduled to present to a Lyon court this morning an "application to default on its debts," French media reports say...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Vinyls-company-Kem-One-applies-to-default-on-its-debts_50738.html March 26, 2013
“I think, from an Ineos point of view, we’ll look at whether we can underpin any of our assets in Europe with cheap feedstocks in one form or another from the United States," says Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of Ineos....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/AFPM-IPC-Ineos-shifting-resources-to-US-Ratcliffe_50731.html March 26, 2013
Perstorp (Perstorp, Sweden) says it has entered into a partnership with Purac (Gorinchem, Netherlands), a leading player in natural food preservation and biobased chemicals, for...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/sweden/Perstorp-and-Purac-in-partnership-to-develop-caprolactone-lactide-copolymers_50500.html March 26, 2013
The European General Court (Luxembourg) has confirmed the European Chemical Agency's (ECHA; Helsinki) approach to identifying persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances (PBTs)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/EU-court-upholds-ECHA-approach-to-identifying-PBTs-and-vPvBs_50476.html March 25, 2013
Kem One (Lyon, France), a manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride, will file for insolvency tomorrow, according to various reports in the French press. The filing follows a works council...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Reports-Kem-One-to-file-for-insolvency_50720.html March 25, 2013
Cabot Corp. says it has completed a fumed silica expansion at its Barry, Wales, facility, part of a 3-year plan started in 2011 to increase Cabot's global fumed metal oxide capacity by...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Cabot-expands-fumed-silica-capacity_50718.html March 25, 2013
Myriant (Quincy, MA) and Bayegan Group (Istanbul) have signed a broad collaboration agreement to commercialize Myriant’s biobased succinic acid in markets across the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/AFPM-IPC-Myriant-and-Bayegan-sign-broad-distribution-agreement-for-biobased-succinic-acid_50717.html March 25, 2013
Reverdia, a joint venture between DSM and Roquette Frères (Lestrem, France), has signed an agreement with Helm (Hamburg) for the European distribution and joint market...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Reverdia-and-Helm-sign-distribution-agreement-for-biobased-succinic-acid_50714.html March 25, 2013
Reverdia, a joint venture between DSM and Roquette Frères (Lestrem, France), has started operations at the world’s first large-scale plant for biobased succinic acid at...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Reverdia-starts-up-worlds-first-large-scale-biobased-succinic-acid-plant_50713.html March 22, 2013
Global styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) prices are expected to be torn in the first half of this year between soft demand downstream from tire manufacturing, as the automotive sector...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Export-opportunities-will-drive-SBR-markets-during-the-second-half-of-2013_50701.html March 22, 2013
Altana's (Wesel, Germany) net income increased almost 5% during 2012, to €155 million ($203 million) from €148 million the year before, the company reported today. Ebitda and...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Altanas-2012-net-income-up-5-percent_50696.html March 22, 2013
Lenzing's (Lenzing, Austria) net profit fell by about 30%, from €267.4 million ($349.6 million) in 2011 to €191.9 in 2012, the company reported today. Ebitda also dropped by...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/Lenzings-2012-profit-plummets-by-about-30-percent_50695.html |
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