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April 11, 2013
Praxair announced today that it has acquired Tri-State Carbonic’s (Lawrenceburg, IN) merchant carbon dioxide (CO2) business. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Praxair-acquires-merchant-carbon-dioxide-business_51075.html
April 11, 2013
An explosion at the production plant of Agroquímicos y Fertilizantes ATP (Atitalaquía, Mexico), an agchem company, at Atitalaquía in the early hours of 7 April...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Communities-evacuated-following-explosion-at-agchem-plant-in-Mexico_51068.html
April 11, 2013
Versalis and Genomatica (San Diego) have signed a definitive joint venture agreement for the development, licensing, and production of biobased butadiene, the companies said today...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Versalis-and-Genomatica-launch-biobased-butadiene-development-and-licensing-joint-venture_51072.html
April 11, 2013
Mitsubishi Rayon says it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Aldila (Poway, CA), a manufacturer of prepreg, carbon fiber golf shafts, and archery arrows. All...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/us/Mitsubishi-Rayon-completes-acquisition-of-US-firm_51065.html
April 10, 2013
Ecolab has closed on its $2.3-billion acquisition of Champion Technologies. Ecolab secured US antitrust approval of the deal earlier this week when it agreed to sell a Champion...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/us/Ecolab-closes-on-Champion-purchase_51064.html
April 10, 2013
Albemarle announced today that it is increasing global prices of its fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts by about $350/m.t., effective immediately. The company says the increase...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Albemarle-Grace-raise-FCC-catalyst-prices_51063.html
April 10, 2013
Dow Chemical says its Dow AgroSciences business has opened its new 175,000-sq-ft R&D center at Dow AgroSciences’ global headquarters at Indianapolis, IN. The research center...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Dow-AgroSciences-opens-new-R-and-D-center-at-Indianapolis-headquarters_51050.html
April 10, 2013
Longtime Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)–reform advocate Senator Frank Lautenberg (D., NJ) is expected to introduce the Safe Chemicals Act of 2013—the latest version of...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Industry-calls-for-bipartisan-approach-to-TSCA-reform-Lautenberg-bill-due-out-soon_51049.html
April 10, 2013
W.R. Grace cut its earnings outlook for 2013 and reported preliminary earnings below analysts’ estimates, as destocking and operational issues amid catalyst customers and...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Grace-cuts-2013-outlook-warns-on-weak-catalyst-results_51047.html
April 10, 2013
Biobased plastics production requires only 0.006% of the 5-billion hectare global agricultural area, according to data recently published by industry body European Bioplastics...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Industry-association-Biobased-plastics-land-use-does-not-pose-threat-to-food-crops_51042.html
April 9, 2013
After delaying its annual shareholders meeting and a back-and-forth battle for director control with hedge fund Jana Partners (New York), Agrium announced today that its shareholders...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Agrium-shareholders-reelect-board-members-following-Jana-dissent_51037.html
April 9, 2013
Sabic and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have signed an initial agreement jointly to develop "practical solutions and processes," Sabic announced. The...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Sabic-and-MIT-sign-research-collaboration-agreement_51020.html
April 9, 2013
Ecolab has entered into a consent agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding Ecolab’s previously announced $2.3-billion acquisition of Champion Technologies. The agreement requires Ecolab to divest certain assets and license technology that serves customers in US Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling to Clariant. Ecolab now expects to close the Champion acquisition by 15 April....
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/us/Ecolab-to-sell-deepwater-product-line-to-Clariant-to-gain-antitrust-approval-of-Champion-acquisition-updated_51008.html
April 9, 2013
Dow AgroSciences; the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) of the State of Victoria, Australia; and Sangamo BioSciences say they have developed an integrated delivery and analytical...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Consortium-develops-platform-for-wheat-and-canola-trait-development_51016.html
April 9, 2013
Arcadia Biosciences (Davis, CA) and DuPont Pioneer today announced a formal collaboration to develop a high-value, specialty nutritional oil for global consumer markets. Under the...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/DuPont-enters-into-safflower-oil-development-pact_51015.html
April 9, 2013
A. Schulman today reported fiscal second-quarter net income up 29.7% year-on-year (YOY), to $11.8 million, on sales up 5.3%, to $522.4 million. A tax allowance and an acquisition drove...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Schulman-falls-short-of-estimates-on-Europe-weakness_51005.html
April 9, 2013
"The placement of this order has secured vital manufacturing capacity,” says Johan du Preez, executive v.p./US megaprojects....
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Sasol-orders-ethylene-compressors-for-planned-Lake-Charles-cracker_51004.html
April 9, 2013
Ferro lifted its first-quarter and fiscal-year 2013 earnings guidance based on preliminary results and progress made to date on the company's cost-savings and value-creation strategy...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Ferro-increases-earnings-outlook_51003.html
April 9, 2013
Myriant (Quincy, MA) and BCD Chemie (Hamburg) have signed a distribution agreement, under which BCD Chemie will market and distribute Myriant's biobased succinic acid and Myrifilm...
http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Myriant-and-BCD-Chemie-sign-biobased-succinic-acid-distribution-deal-for-Austria-Germany-Switzerland_51014.html
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