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January 30, 2013
Agrium, Mosaic, and PotashCorp say they will pay a total of $97.5 million to settle class-action antitrust claims filed in 2008 by direct and indirect potash buyers. Mosaic and...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Fertilizer-firms-settle-antitrust-claims-for-$97-5-million_49452.html January 30, 2013
Oxis Energy (Abingdon, UK) and GP Batteries International (Singapore) today announced a joint manufacturing agreement to accelerate the commercialization of Oxis’s proprietary...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Oxis-Energy-and-GP-Batteries-to-commercialize-breakthrough-Li-S-battery-systems_49432.html January 30, 2013
Monsanto says it has purchased certain assets from privately held Agradis (San Diego), an agricultural biotechnology company firm formed in 2011 by Synthetic Genomics Inc (SGI) and...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Monsanto-acquires-select-ag-biotech-assets-from-Agradis_49445.html January 30, 2013
ThyssenKrupp Uhde says it has been awarded a turnkey contract by Bandirma Gübre Fabrikalari (Bandirma, Turkey) to build a fertilizer complex. The new facility will be integrated...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Uhde-awarded-large-fertilizer-plant-contract-in-Turkey_49444.html January 30, 2013
Johnson Matthey reported a 2% year-on-year (YOY) decrease in group sales, excluding precious metals, to £635 million ($998 million), for its fiscal third quarter ended 31...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Johnson-Matthey-reports-lower-quarterly-sales_49439.html January 30, 2013
AltaGas (Calgary, AB) and Idemitsu Kosan (Tokyo) have agreed to form an equally owned partnership, AltaGas Idemitsu Joint Venture, to pursue opportunities involving exports of...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Idemitsu-and-AltaGas-form-partnership-to-export-Canadian-gas-to-Asia_49434.html January 30, 2013
SK Gas (Seoul) said in a regulatory filing that it will invest $890 million to build a propylene plant at Ulsan, South Korea, as part of its push into the petrochemical industry. SK...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/SK-Gas-to-build-$890-million-propylene-plant-at-Ulsan_49433.html January 30, 2013
SCG Chemicals, the chemical subsidiary of Siam Cement Group (SCG; Bangkok), reported a 73% fall in profits in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the year-ago quarter, to 185...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Siam-Cements-chemicals-business-reports-huge-fall-in-quarterly-profits_49431.html January 30, 2013
Air Liquide says it has recently signed a strategic agreement with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; Shanghai), a top-ranked university in China. The goal of the agreement is to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Air-Liquide-signs-R-and-D-agreement-with-Chinese-university_49429.html January 29, 2013
BASF’s Plant Science business sector announced several changes in its platform, which the company says is aimed to strengthen its focus on plant biotechnology solutions to...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/BASF-Plant-Science-reformulates-platform-ends-enhanced-corn-research_49415.html January 29, 2013
Shin-Etsu Chemical recorded a 10.3% rise in net profits for the fiscal first 9 months ended 31 December 2012, compared with the year-ago period, to ¥83.4 billion ($923 million)...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Shin-Etsu-reports-rise-in-profits_49409.html January 29, 2013
The recently announced joint venture Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical (NSRP) project planned in Thanh Hoa Province, 180 kilometers south of Hanoi, will include 3 petrochemical...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Vietnam-project-to-include-3-petchem-units-partners-to-provide-$4-billion_49406.html January 29, 2013
Advanced Petrochemical Co. (Advanced; Al Jubail) has pulled out of a $1-billion propane dehydrogenation (PDH) and polypropylene (PP) project in Turkey, CW has learned. The plan, first...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Advanced-Petrochemical-pulls-out-of-Turkish-PP-project-Bayegan-seeks-new-partners_49402.html January 29, 2013
LG Chem posted a 22.5% decline in net profits for the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with the year-ago period, to 292.0 billion South Korean won ($269.0 million). Fourth-quarter sales...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/LG-Chem-reports-fall-in-profits_49399.html January 29, 2013
Dow Chemical says that it has signed a memorandum of intent (MOI) with DowAksa Advanced Composites (Istanbul), Rusnano (Moscow), and Holding Company Composite (HCC; Moscow) to develop...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Dow-DowAksa-Rusnano-and-HCC-sign-deal-to-produce-carbon-fiber-intermediates-in-Russia_49398.html January 29, 2013
Technip says it has been awarded engineering and procurement contracts by Westlake Chemical for the previously announced expansion and modernization of the ethylene cracking furnaces...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Technip-awarded-contracts-for-Westlakes-ethylene-plant-expansion-in-Kentucky_49397.html January 28, 2013
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has thrown out an EPA mandate regarding the amount of cellulosic ethanol that the US should have produced in 2012 to comply with the federal...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/US-court-overrules-EPA-on-2012-cellulosic-ethanol-mandate_49394.html January 28, 2013
Georgia Gulf today completed its $2.1-billion acquisition of PPG’s commodity chemicals business, and changed the name of the company to Axiall, effective immediately. Axiall will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol AXLL beginning on Tuesday, 29 January....http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/Georgia-Gulf-completes-acquisition-of-PPGs-commodity-chemical-business-changes-name-to-Axiall_49378.html January 28, 2013
Regulators in California have published a notice of intent to list bisphenol A (BPA) as a developmental toxicant under the state’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65) law...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/California-to-list-BPA-as-developmental-toxicant-under-Prop-65_49377.html January 28, 2013
ACI says a recent study of triclosan levels in Minnesota waterways is “completely distorting facts about [triclosan's] safety and effectiveness.” ACI is responding to a...http://www.chemweek.com/home/top_of_the_news/ACI-Report-distorts-data-on-triclosan-safety_49374.html |
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