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August 8, 2011
Atkin: Novel planting technology Plene will transform the way sugarcane is produced. Syngenta, at a results presentation held recently in Basel, said it expects the commercial...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Syngenta-Integration-Ahead-of-Schedule-First-Half-Profits-Rise_36662.html July 22, 2011
Sahara Petrochemicals (Riyadh) says its Al Waha joint venture had to take its entire complex at Jubail, Saudi Arabia offline on July 16 due to a technical fault in the effluent...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Al-Waha-Complex-Offline-Due-to-Technical-Fault_36289.html July 22, 2011
Sabic’s second-quarter net income rose 61%, to a record SR8.1 billion ($2.16 billion), compared with the same period of last year. The company beat analysts’ estimates of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Sabic-Reports-a-Huge-Rise-in-Second-Quarter-Profits_36290.html July 22, 2011
Topsoe Fuel Cell, a wholly owned subsidiary of Haldor Topsoe, is expanding its stack production capacity to meet growing demand, which will exceed current capacity in 2013. The company...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Topsoe-Expands-Fuel-Cell-Stack-Production-in-Denmark_36291.html July 22, 2011
Phosagro (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Europe’s biggest producer of phosphate fertilizers, raised $538 million from a previously announced initial public offering (IPO) on the London...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Phosagros-IPO-Raises-$538-Million_36317.html July 22, 2011
The lifting of European Union (EU) antidumping measures on imports of potash from Russia and Belarus is not expected to damage the EU potash industry because of strong demand and...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/EU-Removes-Dumping-Measures-on-Potash-from-Russia-Belarus_36318.html July 22, 2011
German chemical industry association VCI (Frankfurt) has raised its forecast for full-year 2011 sales growth by Germany’s chemical industry to 10%, up from its forecast for a 9%...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/VCI-Raises-Full-Year-Sales-Growth-Forecast_36319.html July 8, 2011
The European Commission says it has repealed a November 2009 decision to impose fines on Elementis (London) and the former Ciba Specialty Chemicals for participating in a price-fixing...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Europe-Repeals-Cartel-Fines-Against-Elementis-and-the-Former-Ciba_35979.html July 8, 2011
Qatar Petrochemical Co. (Qapco; Doha), a joint venture in which Industries Qatar (IQ) holds 80% and Total Petrochemicals holds the rest, has made a proposal to Qatar Petroleum (QP) to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Qapco-Proposes-Cracker-JV-with-QP-Competing-with-Total-Plan_35980.html July 8, 2011
The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of a controlling stake in Compañía Española de Petróleos (Cepsa; Madrid) by International Petroleum Investment Co...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/EU-Clears-Ipics-Buy-of-Cepsa-Despite-OverlaPS_35993.html July 8, 2011
Lonza has increased weekly working hours, without accompanying pay increases, for all employees at the company’s Visp, Switzerland manufacturing complex, to improve the site’s...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Lonza-Raises-Working-Hours-at-Visp-to-Secure-Sites-Future_35994.html July 8, 2011
BASF says it will receive €600 million ($870 million) from Styrolution (Frankfurt), an equally owned styrenics joint venture with Ineos, because BASF is contributing more assets to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/BASF-to-Receive-600-Million-from-Styrolution-JV-to-Equalize-Assets_35995.html June 24, 2011
Ineos’s Kerling subsidiary has agreed to acquire Tessenderlo Group’s polyvinyl chloride (PVC) activities, including Tessenderlo’s chlor-alkali operations and part of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Ineos-Acquires-Tessenderlos-PVC-and-Chlor-Alkali-Business_35713.html June 24, 2011
Oman has completed a restructuring that combined and integrated the country’s Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals, Aromatics Oman, and Oman Polypropylene companies under the new name...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Oman-Restructures-Refinery-and-Petchem-Operations-under-New-Name_35714.html June 24, 2011
AkzoNobel is investing €140 million ($201.2 million) in a project to convert an outdated mercury-process chlor-alkali plant at Frankfurt to membrane technology. The plant’s...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/AkzoNobel-Converts-Chlor-Alkali-Plant-to-Membrane-Technology_35737.html June 24, 2011
K+S Group (Kassel, Germany) has agreed to sell its Compo home and garden products business to private equity firm Triton (Frankfurt). The deal has an enterprise value of €205 million...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Private-Equity-Firm-Buys-K+S-Home-and-Garden-Business_35738.html June 24, 2011
ENI (Rome) will permanently cease the production of almost all petrochemicals at the company’s Porto Torres, Italy complex under a plan to convert the site into a previously...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/ENI-to-Close-Ethylene-Complex-Convert-Site-to-Bio-Based-Chemical-Production_35739.html June 13, 2011
BASF and Ineos have received approval from the European Commission for the companies’ previously announced 50-50 Styrolution joint venture. The jv combines the global styrenics...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/BASF-and-Ineos-Get-Nod-for-Styrolution-JV-Divest-ABS-Unit_35413.html June 13, 2011
Clariant has announced growth targets for the next five years and provided performance guidance for 2011, following completion of a two-year restructuring program and the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/Clariant-Sets-Targets-for-2015-Forms-Renewables-Center_35412.html June 10, 2011
LG Chem says it will invest won491 billion ($455 million) to build a 5,000-m.t./year polysilicon plant at Yeosu, Korea. The plant will supply the solar-cell market and be the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/europe_mideast/LG-Chem-to-Build-Polysilicon-plant-in-korea_35416.html |
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