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January 2, 2013
Qatar has set up a company that will maintain exclusive rights to purchase, market, distribute, and sell all specified regulated chemical and petrochemical products produced in Qatar...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Qatar-sets-up-entity-to-take-over-chemicals-marketing-and-distribution_48643.html January 2, 2013
The resignation of US EPA administrator Lisa Jackson has generated a varied response from industry, lawmakers, and other stakeholders involved in the debate over proposed...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Choice-for-new-EPA-chief-seen-as-key-to-TSCA-debate_48658.html January 2, 2013
Canpotex (Saskatoon, SK), the potash export cartel owned by three Saskatchewan potash producing companies—Agrium, Mosaic Canada Crop Nutrition, and PotashCorp—says it has...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Canpotex-and-Sinofert-sign-new-agreement_48678.html January 2, 2013
Brenntag has acquired Altivia (Houston), a regional producer and distributor of water treatment additives and commodity chemicals, for $125 million. Altivia’s affiliate Altivia...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Brenntag-acquires-Texas-water-treatment-distributor_48682.html January 2, 2013
Eurotecnica (Milan) says it has been awarded a contract for an 80,000-m.t./year single train melamine plant to be constructed at Xinjiang, China. Eurotecnica will supply license, basic...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Eurotecnica-awarded-contract-for-melamine-project-in-China_48681.html January 2, 2013
Cambridge Major Laboratories (CML; Germantown, WI), a producer of pharmaceutical intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), and private equity firm American Capital...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Private-equity-firm-acquires-Cambridge-Major-for-$212-million_48679.html January 2, 2013
ExxonMobil Chemical says it has commenced start-up operations at one of the world’s largest ethylene steam crackers, which is located at Singapore and is part of...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/ExxonMobil-commissions-Singapore-petrochemical-plant-expansion_48677.html January 2, 2013
Lonza says it has completed the previously announced sale of the assets of it performance urethanes and organics business located at Brandenburg, KY, to Monument Chemical...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Lonza-completes-sale-of-Arch-performance-urethanes-organics-business-to-Monument-Chemical_48676.html January 2, 2013
Solvay says it has completed the previously announced acquisition of a controlling interest in Sunshield Chemicals (Mumbai), which specializes in surfactants, from Amit Choksey Group...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Solvay-completes-acquisition-of-surfactants-manufacturer-in-India_48674.html December 28, 2012
PPG has launched a share exchange under which PPG shareholders will be allowed to convert the company’s common stock into Georgia Gulf common stock. The share exchange is part of...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/PPG-launches-Georgia-Gulf-share-exchange_48659.html December 28, 2012
US EPA administrator Lisa Jackson says that she will leave the agency after President Obama’s State of the Union address next month. Jackson, who informed EPA staff this morning...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Lisa-Jackson-steps-down-as-EPA-administrator_48660.html December 27, 2012
Clariant says it has signed an agreement to divest its textile chemicals, paper specialties, and emulsions businesses to private investment firm SK Capital, for 502 million Swiss...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/SK-Capital-to-acquire-Clariants-textile-chemicals-paper-specialties-and-emulsions-businesses-for-$550-million_48638.html December 27, 2012
Mitsui Chemicals says it today entered into an agreement with Formosa Plastics (Taipei, Taiwan) to form a joint venture company in China to manufacture and distribute electrolyte...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsui-Chemicals-and-Formosa-Plastics-to-form-electrolyte-solution-jv-in-China_48635.html December 26, 2012
Saudi Kayan, Sadara, and Saudi Acrylic Acid Co. (SAAC) today signed an agreement to establish the Saudi Butanol Co., which will produce butanol to support growth of the paints and...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Kayan-Sadara-and-SAAC-form-jv-to-build-worlds-largest-butanol-plant_48626.html December 24, 2012
Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh; Rabigh, Saudi Arabia), a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, on Saturday announced the appointment of the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Petro-Rabigh-appoints-new-board-of-directors_48624.html December 24, 2012
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings and its Mitsubishi Rayon subsidiary said on Sunday that no decision has been made regarding the construction of a methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant in the...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Mitsubishi-Chemical-says-no-decision-has-been-made-on-MMA-plant-in-the-US_48623.html December 24, 2012
Nippon Shokubai says that it has received approval from authorities to restart operations at certain production facilities in the company’s manufacturing complex at Himeji...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Nippon-Shokubai-restarts-a-few-facilities-at-Himeji-site_48622.html December 24, 2012
Invista says it has acquired a manufacturing facility at Born, the Netherlands previously operated by VSL Born (Born), which focuses on the compounding and recycling of polyamides used...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Invista-acquires-compounding-site-in-the-Netherlands_48619.html December 21, 2012
The Ultrapar Group, parent company of Oxiteno (São Paulo), has announced it plans invest a total of 1.44 billion reais ($676 million) in 2013. The Ultrapar group also...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Oxitenos-2013-investments-focus-on-US-Mexico_48604.html December 21, 2012
Ecolab’s $2.2-billion acquisition of oilfield services firm Champion Technologies is now expected to close by 28 February 2013, as opposed to the end of this year as originally...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Ecolab-Champion-push-back-acquisition-close-date_48603.html |
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