|
|
|
|
|
searchin this issue
premium serviceseventsdirectory servicesadvertisingcustomer care |
Archives :: Regions :: South America
Displaying 341 - 360 of 617 stories.
September 3, 2010
This Week on CW: Walmart has chosen AkzoNobel to be its main paint supplier. The world's largest paint company will develop a line of interior paints exclusively for the U.S.'s largest...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-September-3_29260.html September 2, 2010
The Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), that country's antitrust body, has fined five industrial gases firms for forming a cartel to limit competition...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Brazil-Fines-Industrial-Gases-Firms-in-Antitrust-Case_29183.html August 25, 2010
The jv will be one of the world's largest ethanol producers with an annual capacity of 2 billion liters and will sell about 18 billion liters of transportation fuel throughout Brazil at 4,500 retail sites, Shell says....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Shell-Cosan-Sign-Binding-Deal-for-Ethanol-JV_29024.html August 24, 2010
PotashCorp is seeking alternatives to BHP's hostile bid....http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Vale-Rules-out-Bid-for-PotashCorp_28991.html August 20, 2010
Monsanto says it has received approval from Brazilian regulators for planting of the company’s Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Roundup Ready 2 soybean seeds. The approval by...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/CTNBio-Clears-Monsantos-Bt-Roundup-Ready-2_28946.html August 19, 2010
Officials at Braskem (São Paulo) told investors today that the company's near-term focus is on incorporating the Quattor and Sunoco acquisitions, and that it could be up to...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Braskem-Details-Investment-Plans-for-the-U-S-Americas_28729.html August 13, 2010
This Week on CW: A variety of chemical companies saw solid earnings increases, driven by rises in volumes. Braskem, however, was not among them, as the Brazilian's firms earnings slid...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Chemical-Industry-Weekly-News-Round-Up-August-13_28791.html August 11, 2010
Braskem (São Paulo) has reported second quarter net income of R$45 million ($26 million), down 96% compared with the year-ago quarter. Ebitda rose 42%, to R$1.04 billion. Net...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Braskems-Earnings-Slide_28702.html August 10, 2010
The Brazilian mining firm Vale (Rio de Janeiro) plans to combine its fertilizer assets to form a single, listed company, Vale Fertilizantes. Vale last January agreed to buy the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Vale-Plans-to-Combine-Bunge-Fosfertil-Assets_28699.html August 9, 2010
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Mitsubishi Corporation have started production at their second methanol joint venture with Pequiven in Venezuela. The jv, Metanol de Oriente (Metor)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/venezuela/Mitsubishi-Gas-Chemical-Starts-Up-Large-Methanol-Complex-in-Venezuela_28667.html August 6, 2010
Lanxess beat market expectations for the second quarter as a result of a strong performance in emerging markets, reporting Ebitda pre-exceptionals of €269 million ($354 million)...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Lanxess-Posts-Huge-Hike-in-Profits-Raises-Earnings-Forecast-Scales-Back-Cost-Cutting-Plans_28645.html July 29, 2010
Air Liquide says it has acquired Cryogas de Centroamerica (Panama City, Panama), a leading supplier of medical and industrial gases in Panama. The agreement to acquire Cryogas’...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/Air-Liquide-Acquires-Industrial-Gases-Company-in-Panama_28406.html July 22, 2010
Solutia says it is optimizing and expanding its Saflex polyvinyl butyral (PVB) interlayer manufacturing capacity in South America as part of its strategic plan to continue serving the...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Solutia-to-Expand-Saflex-Interlayer-Capacity-in-South-America_28301.html July 22, 2010
Braaskem is selling $350 million in debt due 2020 in a reopening of a $750 million issuance first announced in April, according to Moody's Investors Service (New York). The debt sale...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Braskem-to-Sell-Debt-in-Continued-Refinancing-Effort_28232.html July 22, 2010
Uralkali (Berezniki, Russia), one of Russia's largest chemical companies and a leading global potash fertilizer producer with about 10% of the market, has more than doubled output of...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Russian-Potash-Fertilizer-Producer-More-than-Doubles-Output_28228.html July 18, 2010
Novozymes says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dedini (Piracicaba, Brazil), a leading company in the sugar-ethanol market, to develop a technological route to produce...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/Novozymes-Signs-Deal-with-Brazilian-Firm-for-Cellulosic-Ethanol_28111.html July 13, 2010
Colombia’s state oil company Ecopetrol (Bogotá) has hired E&C firm Mustang to study a grassroots polymers plant in Colombia. The study will look at ways the to achieve...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/Colombias-Ecopetrol-Evaluates-Grassroots-Petrochemical-Complex_28015.html July 6, 2010
Agrium has purchased 24 retail farm outlets from DuPont Crop Protection, the company announced today. It has also purchased DuPont's crop protection formulation facility in Casilda...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/argentina/Agrium-Buys-Argentine-Retail-Farm-Outlets_27858.html June 29, 2010
BASF is considering plans to build a plastic additives facility in the Mideast and is studying possible expansion in Asia, CW has learned. Hans W. Reiners, president/performance...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/brazil/BASF-Ponders-Plastic-Additives-Plant-in-Mideast-Eyes-Expansion-in-Asia_27723.html June 28, 2010
Speculation is mounting on which businesses BP will sell as part of its announced asset disposal program to strengthen financial liquidity following the oil spill in the Gulf of...http://www.chemweek.com/regions/south_america/venezuela/Will-BP-Target-Chemicals-in-Asset-Disposal-Plan_27702.html |
|
Connect with IHS Chemical Week |
Quick links |
Our related sites |
|
contact us | about us |
customer care |
privacy policy |
sitemap |
advertise
|
Follow us on Twitter
