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May 1, 2013
Saudi Kayan, a Sabic affiliate, says that its polycarbonate manufacturing facility at Al Jubail has been brought back onstream following maintenance. Kayan announced end of...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Saudi-Kayan-brings-polycarbonate-plant-back-online-amines-units-to-follow_51629.html May 1, 2013
India has proposed to build a urea manufacturing plant at the petrochemicals hub at Chahbahar, Iran, using natural gas as feedstock, Iranian news agencies report. India has also agreed...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/India-eyes-urea-project-at-Irans-Chahbahar-petchems-hub_51628.html May 1, 2013
Mitsubishi Rayon and Daicel say their joint venture, Toyama Filter Tow (Toyama City, Japan), which produces acetate tow for cigarette filters, started functioning today...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsubishi-Rayon-and-Daicel-outline-plans-for-acetate-tow-JV_51626.html May 1, 2013
Cabot (Boston) reported net income of $27 million for the quarter ended 31 March, down 89% from the year-ago quarter, which included a one-time gain of $190 million from the sale of...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Cabot-earnings-fall-on-Japan-outage-miss-estimates_51623.html May 1, 2013
Mitsubishi Chemical; its wholly owned Japan Polychem Corp. (JPC; Tokyo) subsidiary; and JNC (Tokyo), a wholly owned subsidiary of Chisso (Tokyo), have decided to transfer the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsubishi-Chemical-and-JNC-to-transfer-PP-compound-businesses-to-Japan-Polypropylene_51624.html April 30, 2013
The company says it is considering the sale of its $350-million/year peroxygens business, a leading producer of hydrogen peroxide and persulfates....http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/FMC-considering-hydrogen-peroxide-sale_51620.html April 30, 2013
FMC today reported first-quarter net income up 10% year-on-year (YOY), to $130.9 million, on sales up 5%, to $990.2 million. Excluding special charges, adjusted earnings totaled...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/FMC-earnings-rise-on-solid-ag-biopolymers-results_51618.html April 30, 2013
Mexichem Fluor, a Mexichem subsidiary; and AGC Chemicals Europe (Thornton Cleveleys, UK), a wholly owned subsidiary of Asahi Glass (Tokyo) have completed a multimillion-pound...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mexichem-Asahi-Glass-JV-completes-R-22-plant-in-UK_51597.html April 30, 2013
Huntsman on Tuesday reported a net loss of $24 million due mainly to a charge related to early repayment of debt compared with net income of $163 million in the year-ago quarter...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Huntsman-first-quarter-adjusted-earnings-fall-75-percent_51605.html April 30, 2013
Ecolab’s first-quarter net income rose 221% year-on-year (YOY), to $159.6 million, on sales up 2%, to $2.87 billion. Excluding special charges—which had a major impact in...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ecolab-earnings-rise-on-margin-gains_51600.html April 30, 2013
CB&I (The Woodlands, TX) says it has been awarded a contract by Shandong Wonfull Petrochemical Group to provide the license and processing engineering design for a...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/CB-and-I-announces-licensing-deal-for-acid-alkylation-unit_51599.html April 30, 2013
CW has learned that Ineos is at an advanced stage of discussions with an unnamed party to transfer the Kerling chlor-vinyls business into a joint venture, which would become one of the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ineos-to-hive-off-vinyls-into-joint-venture-Rafnes-cracker-to-stay-with-Ineos_51595.html April 30, 2013
BP's petrochemicals business, including lubricants, delivered an underlying replacement cost (RC) profit before interest and taxes of $404 million in the first quarter of this year...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BPs-first-quarter-petchem-profits-fall-7-5-percent_51590.html April 30, 2013
Wacker Chemie today reported a huge drop in net income and a 10% slide in sales in the first quarter of this year. Net income was down 87.8%, to €5.1 million ($6.7 million), while...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Wacker-reports-huge-drop-in-net-income-and-10-percent-lower-sales-confirms-2013-outlook_51588.html April 30, 2013
Clariant’s former textile chemicals, paper specialties, and emulsion businesses, which the company agreed to sell to SK Capital on 27 December, will be named Archroma after the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Clariants-former-businesses-named-Archroma_51587.html April 30, 2013
Tokuyama (Tokyo) has reported a net loss of ¥37.9 billion ($388 million) for the fiscal year ended 31 March, compared with a net profit of ¥9.3 billion in the previous fiscal...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Tokuyama-swings-to-loss_51586.html April 30, 2013
Clariant’s first-quarter net profit from continuing operations more than doubled to 38 million Swiss francs ($40.53 million) compared with SF16 million in the year-earlier...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Clariant-more-than-doubles-net-profit-on-flat-sales-confirms-2015-targets_51585.html April 29, 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...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Rosneft-Mitsui-sign-MOU-to-develop-petchem-project-in-Russian-far-east_51563.html April 29, 2013
American Natural Soda Ash Corp. (Ansac; Westport, CT) is raising the price of soda ash worldwide by $30/m.t., immediately on noncontract sales and as notice allows on contract sales....http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ansac-raises-soda-ash-$30m-t-cites-infrastructure-investment_51562.html April 29, 2013
The European Commission, following a vote by EU member states today, will proceed with a plan to restrict the use of three neonicotinoids used as insecticides on a variety of crops...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/European-Commission-proceeds-with-plan-to-restrict-the-use-of-neonicotinoids_51559.html |
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