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January 27, 2012
DuPont says it is collaborating with Yingli Green Energy (Baoding, China), to advance technology for higher efficiency solar cells, new module manufacturing...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/DuPont-Solar-Link_40852.html January 27, 2012
Lohia: The right time to move into the market. Indorama Ventures (Bangkok) says it will construct an integrated facility in India that will consist of plants producing purified...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Indorama-to-Build-Integrated-PTA-PET-and-PSF-Manufacturing-Complex-in-India_40828.html January 27, 2012
Wacker Chemie, in preliminary fourth-quarter 2011 results, reported a net loss of €85 million ($110 million) compared with a €100-million net profit in the year-earlier period...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Wacker-Posts-Fourth-Quarter-Loss-Lower-Sales_40829.html January 27, 2012
Kuwait has confirmed that it has selected Total as a partner in a previously announced $9-billion refinery and petrochemicals joint venture with Sinopec, to be built at Donghai Island...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Total-Partners-Kuwait-Sinopec-in-Petchems-Project_40830.html January 27, 2012
Solvay has created Solvay Energy Services, a business selling expertise within the group and to third parties to optimize energy costs and carbon dioxide emissions. The new business is...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Solvay-Creates-Energy-Services-Business_40831.html January 27, 2012
Tomblin: West Virgina makes pitch for Northeast petrochemical investment. Lawmakers in West Virginia have passed a law providing 25 years of property tax incentives for companies...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/West-Virginia-Passes-Tax-Incentive-to-Lure-Cracker_40847.html January 27, 2012
Albemarle has installed a production train for finished polyolefin catalysts, which completes the expansion of its Process Development Center at Baton Rouge, LA...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Albemarle-Adds-Polyolefin-Catalysts-at-Baton-Rouge_40848.html January 27, 2012
Sensient Technologies (Milwaukee) has opened a colors and fragrance facility at Jundaí, Brazil. The site includes a state-of-the-art factory, an...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sensient-Opens-Colors-and-Flavors-Facility-in-Brazil_40849.html January 27, 2012
A U.S. propylene producer has nominated a 22-cts/lb increase for February contracts, market players say. The nomination is a 40% premium to current propylene contracts of 56...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Propylene-Producer-Nominates-40-percent-Price-Hike_40850.html January 27, 2012
Ampac Fine Chemicals (AFC; Rancho Cordova, CA), a subsidiary of American Pacific Corp. (Las Vegas, NV), says it has been granted registration as a manufacturer of controlled substances...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Ampac-Expand-Controlled-Substances-Productions_40851.html January 27, 2012
Chemical distributor Barentz Europe (Hoofddorp, the Netherlands) has acquired Forum Products (Redhill, U.K.), a distributor of ingredients to the U.K. pharmaceutical, and food and...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Distribution-Deal_40832.html January 27, 2012
DIC Corp. (Tokyo) has agreed to acquire packaging inks company Pacific Inks (Auckland, New Zealand). The deal will be carried out by DIC Asia Pacific (Singapore), a DIC...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/DIC-Buys-Inks-Firm_40833.html January 27, 2012
Paints and coatings company Tikkurila (Vantaa, Finland) has confirmed details of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Tikkurila-Details-Cuts_40834.html January 27, 2012
Scaling Up: Biomass-BDO conversion advances. Renewable chemicals firm Genomatica (San Diego) says it has obtained exclusive worldwide rights to Beta Renewables’ (Scrivia, Italy)...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Genomatica-Advances-Second-Generation-Biobased-BDO-with-M-and-G_40846.html January 27, 2012
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will appoint Maria das Graças Silva Foster to replace Petrobras chief...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/New-Petrobras-Chief_40853.html January 27, 2012
An explosion rocked one of LyondellBasell’s low-density polyethylene (LDPE) units at Wesseling, Germany over the weekend, affecting LDPE production. The blast injured seven...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/LyondellBasell-Blast_40854.html January 20, 2012
DuPont chair and CEO Ellen Kullman says U.S. companies are struggling to fill openings for skilled workers, and that the education system needs to keep pace with the evolving demands...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/DuPont-CEO-Close-U-S-Skills-Gap_40642.html January 20, 2012
Air Products has agreed to sell its homecare business in continental Europe to Linde for €590 million ($747 million). The business specializes in patient-based oxygen-therapy...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Linde-to-Buy-Air-Products-Homecare-Business-in-Five-European-Countries_40615.html January 20, 2012
Al Mady: Next year will be better. Sabic reported a 10% drop in net profits for the fourth quarter of 2011, to SR5.24 billion ($1.4 billion), on sales 15% higher, at SR47 billion...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sabic-Reports-Lower-Fourth-Quarter-Profits_40616.html January 20, 2012
UOP, a Honeywell subsidiary, has been selected by Samsung Total Petrochemicals, a 50-50 joint venture between the Samsung Group and Total, to provide technology for a recently...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/UOP-Selected-for-Samsung-Total-Aromatics-Project_40617.html |
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