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March 7, 2013
Linde's net profit increased by 6.4% during 2012 from €1.24 billion ($1.67 billion) to €1.32 billion, the company said today. Ebitda went up 10%, from €3.21 billion to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Lindes-profits-and-sales-rise-in-2012_50319.html March 7, 2013
Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) today reported a more than doubling in fourth-quarter net income, to €271.8 million ($353.7 million), due to favorable one-time effects on income...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Merck-KGaA-reports-higher-earnings-following-restructuring-lifts-savings-target_50317.html March 7, 2013
Condon: Latin America is a strategic region Bayer CropScience, a subgroup of Bayer, says that it has signed an agreement to acquire the soybean seed company Wehrtec and the soy...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Bayer-CropScience-acquires-businesses-in-Brazil-plans-further-growth-in-Latin-America_50315.html March 7, 2013
Monsanto says it has signed a new agreement that makes Sinochem’s (Beijing) subsidiary in Australia the future exclusive distributor of Roundup-brand glyphosate herbicide...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Monsanto-signs-Roundup-distribution-agreement-with-Sinochem-for-Australia-and-New-Zealand_50312.html March 6, 2013
The transaction is expected to close in the 2nd quarter of 2013....http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Westlake-acquires-US-PVC-products-business-from-Saint-Gobain-for-$175-million_50309.html March 6, 2013
To protect their newly advantaged cost position, some US chemical producers are inviting government intervention into the natural gas market, but they are making a mistake, said...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/ExxonMobils-Pryor-defends-LNG-exports_50279.html March 6, 2013
A legal dispute has erupted between Klesch Group (Geneva), a special situations investor; and Arkema over Kem One (Lyon, France), the former vinyls business of Arkema, which Klesch...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Klesch-and-Arkema-lock-horns-over-vinyls-producer-Kem-One_50221.html March 6, 2013
Methanex's Motunui site Methanex says it plans to increase its methanol production capacity in New Zealand by 700,000 m.t./year, to 2.2...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Methanex-to-restart-Waitara-Valley-plant-and-raise-capacity-at-Motunui-site-in-New-Zealand_50269.html March 6, 2013
SK Gas (Seoul), South Korea's largest importer and distributor of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), said today that it has signed a deal with Lummus Technology to use Lummus’s...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/SK-Gas-selects-Lummus-Catofin-technology-for-PDH-plant-in-Korea_50274.html March 6, 2013
Henkel today reported a 41% increase in fourth-quarter Ebit, to €492 million ($642.1 million), on 5% higher sales, at €4 billion. Fourth-quarter Ebit margin rose to 12.3%...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Henkel-reports-higher-2012-sales-and-earnings-gives-guidance-for-2013_50273.html March 6, 2013
Mitsui & Co. says its wholly owned subsidiary Intercontinental Terminals Co. (ITC; Houston) will invest about $150 million to build a new tank terminal on the Houston Ship Channel...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsui-and-Co-to-build-petrochemical-terminal-in-US_50272.html March 6, 2013
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) on Tuesday opened a flavors manufacturing plant at the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District, in China. The facility is...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/International-Flavors-and-Fragrances-opens-large-flavors-plant-in-China_50271.html March 5, 2013
Beleaguered solar markets continue to drag on Ferro's financial results, with the company reporting a deeper quarter loss year-on-year just a day after rejecting a takeover bid from A...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ferros-fourth-quarter-loss-widens_50255.html March 5, 2013
Mitsubishi Chemical says it has revised its financial targets for fiscal 2015, ending 31 March 2016, as a result of changes in the business environment. The targets are part of a...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsubishi-Chemical-lowers-2016-targets_50250.html March 5, 2013
Symrise (Holzminden, Germany), a leading producer of flavors and fragrances, has acquired the global fragrance business of the Belmay Group (New York), an international developer and...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Symrise-acquires-Belmays-fragrance-activities-reinforcing-North-American-presence_50249.html March 5, 2013
Sasol North America has selected Univation’s Unipol polyethylene (PE) technology for a 450,000-m.t./year plant to be built as part of a previously announced $5–7 billion...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Sasol-progresses-with-Lake-Charles-cracker-project-selects-Unipol-PE-process_50248.html March 5, 2013
BASF and Xinjiang Markor Chemical Industry Co. (Markor; Korla, China) plan to establish two joint ventures for the production of butanediol (BDO) and polytetrahydrofuran (PolyTHF) at...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BASF-and-Markor-form-two-JVs-to-produce-BDO-and-PolyTHF-in-China_50246.html March 5, 2013
Celanese says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with state-owned energy company Pertamina (Jakarta), and will begin the detailed project-planning phase for the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Celanese-and-Pertamina-to-form-JV-for-fuel-ethanol-projects-in-Indonesia_50245.html March 5, 2013
Lanxess says that, following a previously announced feasibility study, it has decided to convert production of emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (E-SBR) used in standard tires to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Lanxess-to-invest-&euro80-million-to-switch-to-S-SBR-production-in-Brazil_50243.html March 4, 2013
President Obama this morning formally nominated Gina McCarthy as the next EPA chief. McCarthy, EPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, had been...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Obama-nominates-McCarthy-to-head-EPA_50226.html |
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