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April 25, 2013
Cheap natural gas and strong agriculture markets lifted Dow Chemical’s first-quarter earnings ahead of estimates, but chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris says that, given...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Dow-Chemical-profit-rises-on-cheap-feedstocks-and-agriculture_51449.html April 25, 2013
Trading in Evonik Industries (Essen, Germany) shares began today on the Frankfurt and Luxembourg stock exchanges. This follows 3 rounds of private placements this year by major...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Evonik-Industries-shares-start-trading-in-Frankfurt-and-Luxembourg_51446.html April 25, 2013
Versalis (Milan), the chemicals subsidiary of ENI (Rome), reports a strong improvement in profitability in the first quarter of this year. The company is continuing with a major...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Versalis-narrows-losses-in-the-first-quarter-of-this-year_51442.html April 25, 2013
Saori Dubourg: Increasing our contribution to the aroma ingredients market. BASF and Petronas Chemicals say they will invest a total of $500 million in an integrated aroma ingredients...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BASF-and-Petronas-to-invest-$500-million-to-build-aroma-ingredients-facility-in-Malaysia_51440.html April 25, 2013
ExxonMobil on Thursday reported a 62% year-over-year (YOY) increase first-quarter chemical segment earnings. Chemical earnings of $1.1 billion were $436 million higher than the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/ExxonMobil-first-quarter-chemical-earnings-jump-62-percent_51456.html April 25, 2013
Shin-Etsu today reported a 5% rise in net income in the fiscal year ended 31 March, to ¥105.71 billion ($1.067 billion), on 2.1% lower sales, of ¥1.03 trillion...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Shin-Etsu-fiscal-2013-net-income-rises-on-lower-sales-outlook-for-2014-uncertain_51439.html April 25, 2013
Linde Electronics and the fluorochemicals producer Pelchem (Pretoria) have formed a strategic partnership to distribute xenon difluoride (XeF2), which is used in microelectromechanical...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Linde-Electronics-and-Pelchem-form-xenon-difluoride-distribution-alliance_51437.html April 25, 2013
Croda (Goole, UK) posted a £65.1-million ($99.3 million) pretax profit during the first quarter of the year, up 6.5% from the same quarter in 2012, when it recorded £61.1...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Crodas-first-quarter-pretax-profit-jumps-up-6-5-percent_51436.html April 25, 2013
Bayer reported a “positive development” in its life sciences operations, comprising HealthCare and CropScience, in the first quarter but said that MaterialScience’s...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Bayers-life-sciences-units-lift-results-MaterialScience-hampered-by-costs-2013-outlook-confirmed_51435.html April 25, 2013
Lonza, in its business update announcement for the first quarter of 2013, says that it has decided to permanently close its biocides manufacturing site at Swords, Ireland, in June...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Lonza-to-close-Ireland-biocides-site_51434.html April 24, 2013
Methanex says it has reached a final investment decision to proceed with the relocation of a second 1-million m.t./year methanol plant from its Cabo Negro, Chile site to Geismar, LA...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Methanex-to-relocate-another-methanol-plant-from-Chile-to-Geismar_51433.html April 24, 2013
Ferro has reported first-quarter net income of $800,000 down 78.9% from the same quarter last year, on sales down 9.1% year-on-year (YOY), to $418 million. Excluding discontinued...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ferro-earnings-top-estimates-despite-sales-decline_51432.html April 24, 2013
Ashland today reported fiscal second-quarter net income down 39.8% year-on-year (YOY), to $53 million, or 68 cts/share, on sales down 5.3%, to $1.97 billion. The quarter, however...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ashland-beats-estimates-but-abandons-2014-targets_51404.html April 24, 2013
Taminco, owned by private equity firm Apollo Management, completed its previously announced initial public offering of 15.8 million shares yesterday at $15/share, raising $223.8 million after underwriting fees and discounts...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Taminco-IPO-raises-$224-million_51408.html April 24, 2013
Ecolab says it has reached an agreement to acquire AkzoNobel’s Purate antimicrobial water treatment technology for an undisclosed sum. The business provides proprietary chlorine...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ecolab-to-buy-AkzoNobels-chlorine-dioxide-water-treatment-business_51406.html April 24, 2013
Praxair reports first-quarter sales growth despite weakness in Europe, but foreign currency translation negatively impacted the company’s earnings. Net income fell 7%...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Praxair-reports-sales-growth-earnings-drop-on-foreign-currency-translation_51405.html April 24, 2013
Reports indicate that the death toll has risen to 14 and over 200 people were injured, with several people still unaccounted for, following a huge explosion at a fertilizer plant at...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Texas-fertilizer-plant-that-exploded-and-killed-14-found-to-be-storing-excessive-amounts-of-ammonium-nitrate-Update_51274.html April 24, 2013
India’s Ministry of Finance has imposed a definitive five-year antidumping duty on imports of soda ash from Russia and Turkey. The Department of Revenue said that the duty in the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/India-imposes-antidumping-duty-on-soda-ash-imports-from-Turkey-and-Russia_51401.html April 24, 2013
SCG Chemicals, the chemical subsidiary of Siam Cement Group (SCG; Bangkok), reports a more than doubling in profits for the first quarter of 2013 compared with the year-ago quarter, to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Siam-Cements-chemicals-business-reports-huge-rise-in-profits-to-expand-LDPE-capacity_51400.html April 24, 2013
Delayed catalyst orders and downtime at customer operations drove W.R. Grace’s first-quarter results below expectations. The company reported net income of $52.9 million for the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Grace-reports-first-quarter-earnings-down-13-percent_51403.html |
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