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December 14, 2012
Researchers reviewing data sets compiled by the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) say in a recent study that they have been unable to establish a link...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Study-questions-methods-used-to-link-BPA-to-heart-disease_48349.html December 14, 2012
Soy struggles: Monsanto wins round in patent-term dispute. The Court of Justice of the State of Mato Grosso, in Brazil’s largest soybean-growing state, has ruled that Monsanto...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Monsanto-resumes-collection-of-RR-soybean-royalties-in-Brazil_48350.html December 14, 2012
Yara International (Oslo) has entered into an agreement to acquire Bunge’s fertilizer retail business in Brazil. The proposed transaction is valued at $750 million and will be...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Yara-to-buy-Bunges-Brazil-fertilizer-business_48351.html December 14, 2012
NO MERCURY: The membrane-cell unit at PPG’s Lake Charles chlor-alkali complex was installed in 2007. PPG Industries shut down its Lake Charles, LA, chlor-alkali complex on 28...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/PPGs-Lake-Charles-chlor-alkali-up-but-at-reduced-rates-after-outage_48376.html December 14, 2012
Bock: Downturn weighs on chemical industry. Cefic has downgraded its 2012 projection for output of chemicals in the European Union and says that production will decline by even more...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Cefic-downgrades-2012-2013-EU-chemicals-output-forecasts_48311.html December 14, 2012
Phosphate fertilizer producer PhosAgro (Moscow) says that, in the first quarter of 2013, it will cut output of diammonium phosphate (DAP) and monoammonium phosphate (MAP) by more than...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/PhosAgro-to-cut-DAP-MAP-raise-NPK-NPS-production_48312.html December 14, 2012
out of the blue: Releases of hazardous chemicals from Levi’s products and supply chain will end by 2020. Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi’s; San Francisco), the world’s...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Levis-to-eliminate-hazardous-chemicals-under-Greenpeace-plan_48352.html December 14, 2012
Ineos says it has signed a letter of intent with TGE Gas Engineering (Bonn, Germany), to build an ethane tank and expand infrastructure at Ineos's Rafnes, Norway, production site. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Ineos-plans-ethane-tank-in-Norway-enabling-US-imports_48353.html December 14, 2012
National Petrochemical Co. (Petrochem; Riyadh) expects its newly commissioned petrochemicals complex, operated by Saudi Polymers at Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia, to stay off-line for longer...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Saudi-Polymers-complex-off-line-longer-than-expected_48354.html December 14, 2012
Arkema says it has abandoned a €70-million ($90.5 million) project to increase capacity for the company’s Kynar polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) fluoropolymer at...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Arkema-cancels-PVDF-hike-in-France-after-worker-protests_48310.html December 14, 2012
Albemarle is expanding its specialty chemical facility at Orangeburg, SC—a $65-million investment, the company says. Separately, the company has completed an expansion at its Tyrone...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Albemarle-expands-at-South-Carolina-Pennsylvania-sites_48368.html December 14, 2012
freeport: New Texas cracker expected to start in 2017. Dow Chemical says that cost reductions and capital spending curtailments will keep the company on track to meet a near-term...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Dow-adjusts-strategy-toslow-growth-world_48369.html December 14, 2012
3M says it is expanding production capacity at its Decatur, AL, site for polymers used to produce fluoroelastomers and polymer processing additives. Plans include upgraded equipment...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/3M-invests-in-Decatur-site-for-fluoroelastomers_48370.html December 14, 2012
Private equity firms Uni-World Capital (New York) and Brightwood Capital Advisors (New York) have acquired phosgene maker VanDeMark Chemical (Lockport, NY) from Buckingham Capital (New...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/VanDeMark-Chemical-changes-private-equity-owners_48371.html December 14, 2012
DuPont has broken ground on a $200-million cellulosic ethanol facility in Nevada, IA, the company announced Friday. Slated for completion in mid-2014, the facility is expected to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/DuPont-breaks-ground-on-$200-million-cellulosics-facility_48372.html December 14, 2012
McDonnell: TPC purchase to close by year end. TPC Group (Houston) shareholders voted to approved the sale of the company to First Reserve and SK Capital for $45/share. The deal values...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/TPC-Group-shareholders-approve-sale-to-SK-First-Reserve_48373.html December 14, 2012
Eastman Chemical executives expect to maintain double-digit annual earnings growth through 2015 as the company capitalizes on its portfolio transformation to primarily specialty...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Eastman-forecasts-double-digit-earnings-growth-through-2015_48374.html December 14, 2012
A senior Dow Chemical executive has lambasted a report, commissioned by the US Department of Energy (DOE), that concludes the US economy would benefit more from the export of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Dow-DOEs-new-LNG-export-study-is-baffling-misleading_48375.html November 30, 2012
Indorama Ventures (Bangkok) tells CW that the company’s previously announced petrochemical project in India, consisting of plants producing purified terephthalic acid...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/asia_pacific/Indoramas-India-project-to-be-located-in-Tamil-Nadu_47998.html November 30, 2012
Ashland has named Luis Fernandez-Moreno as company v.p. and president of Ashland’s water technologies segment. Fernandez-Moreno most recently served as executive v.p. of Arch...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/Ashland-names-new-water-technologies-president_48031.html |
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