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March 26, 2013
The deal puts to rest a long-running legal dispute between the 2 leading genetically modified seed firms and nullifies $1 billion in damages that a St. Louis district court awarded to Monsanto in August 2012....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/DuPont-Monsanto-sign-$1-75-billion-licensing-deal-end-patent-dispute_50739.html March 26, 2013
“I think, from an Ineos point of view, we’ll look at whether we can underpin any of our assets in Europe with cheap feedstocks in one form or another from the United States," says Jim Ratcliffe, chairman of Ineos....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/AFPM-IPC-Ineos-shifting-resources-to-US-Ratcliffe_50731.html March 26, 2013
Ashland says that Lamar Chambers, senior v.p. and CFO, will retire in July after 37 years of service to the company. The board of directors has elected Kevin Willis to succeed Chambers...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Ashland-appoints-new-CFO_50733.html March 26, 2013
The decision by Ferro’s board to reject A. Schulman’s recent takeover offer without negotiations and pursue its own restructuring plan is being blasted by an increasingly...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Ferros-board-faces-shareholder-mutiny_50575.html March 26, 2013
Owens Corning (Toledo, OH), a producer of glass fiber reinforcements for composite systems, joined a strategic alliance with BASF and TenCate Advanced Composites (Morgan Hill, CA) to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/BASF-Corning-and-TenCate-form-team-to-develop-thermoplastic-composites_50562.html March 26, 2013
Kronos reported a net loss in earnings for the fourth quarter 2012 due to an inherent weakness in the titanium dioxide (TiO2) market. The company reported a loss of $18.1 million (16...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Kronoss-earnings-fall-on-weak-TiO2-sales_50497.html March 26, 2013
Invista has signed a distribution agreement with the SO.F.TER Group (Softer; Forli, Italy), allowing Softer to market Invista’s Torzen polyamide-6,6 products in...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Invista-signs-polyamide-distribution-agreement-in-Mexico_50428.html March 25, 2013
Invista announed today that it has acquired Ashburn Hill Corp., a Greenville, SC-based manufacturer of protective fabric technologies for fire service and industrial markets, for an...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Invista-acquires-flame-resistant-apparel-company_50730.html March 25, 2013
“If industry had more certainty that regulations would not change every election cycle, there would be a significant investment in infrastructure,” says AFPM president Charles Drevna....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/AFPM-IPC-Shale-gas-carrying-US-economy-Drevna_50719.html March 25, 2013
Myriant (Quincy, MA) and Bayegan Group (Istanbul) have signed a broad collaboration agreement to commercialize Myriant’s biobased succinic acid in markets across the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/AFPM-IPC-Myriant-and-Bayegan-sign-broad-distribution-agreement-for-biobased-succinic-acid_50717.html March 25, 2013
PolyOne has entered into an agreement to sell its vinyl dispersion, blending, and suspension resin assets to Mexichem (Tlalneplantla, Mexico) for $250 million in cash, PolyOne...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/PolyOne-to-sell-its-vinyls-assets-to-Mexichem-in-$250-million-cash-deal_50715.html March 25, 2013
Songwon Industrial (Ulsan, South Korea) says that the previously announced Houston facility of the Songwon Additive Technologies joint venture, for the production of one pack systems...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/us/Songwon-JV-to-start-up-one-pack-systems-plant-in-Houston-next-month_50716.html March 22, 2013
Indorama Ventures’ (Bangkok) polymers subsidiary AlphaPet has confirmed the construction of a previously announced polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production unit in the United...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Indorama-subsidiary-confirms-PET-project-at-BP-site-in-the-US_50709.html March 22, 2013
Global styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) prices are expected to be torn in the first half of this year between soft demand downstream from tire manufacturing, as the automotive sector...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Export-opportunities-will-drive-SBR-markets-during-the-second-half-of-2013_50701.html March 22, 2013
IHS Chemical projects that by 2025, the volume will approach 250 million m.t., triple the volume of 2000 and nearly double that of 2010. ...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/IHS-WPC-Global-chemical-trade-to-boom-on-advantaged-feedstocks-Witte_50660.html March 22, 2013
Rockwood said today that it has paid down all of Sachtleben’s outstanding borrowings, totaling $508.9 million. The borrowings include 2 term loans, which interest rates of the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Rockwood-pays-down-all-Sachtleben-debt_50700.html March 22, 2013
A. Schulman has retained Moelis & Company (New York), an investment bank, to advise on the company’s $6.50/share hostile bid for Ferro. The bid, which totals $855 million...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Schulman-retains-investment-bank-to-advise-on-Ferro-offer_50699.html March 22, 2013
Dow Chemical says that its Dow Water & Process Solutions (DW&PS) business unit has entered into a collaboration agreement with Ahlstrom (Helsinki, Finland)—a global...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/us/Dow-partners-with-Ahlstrom-for-drinking-water-solutions_50691.html March 21, 2013
Tonon Bioenergia, a Brazilian agro-industrial group with growing investments in the sugarcane industry, has signed a contract to acquire the Paraiso Bioenergia sugarcane mill that...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Paraiso-Bioenergia-sugarcane-mill-bought-by-Tonon-Group_50689.html March 21, 2013
Chemicals sector rail traffic in North America rose 3.3% year-on-year (YOY) during the week ended 16 March, to 43,388 cars, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_america/Chemicals-sector-rail-traffic-rises-3-3-percent_50687.html |
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