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March 8, 2013
India will need to allow fertilizer producers to raise urea prices to farmers, or provide additional funding, following a decision to cut the country’s fertilizer subsidy in the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Indian-fertilizer-subsidy-may-cause-price-rises_50360.html March 8, 2013
Sabic will not be going ahead with plans announced last year to build a $5.3-billion methanol-to-olefins complex in Trinidad and Tobago in a joint venture with Sinopec. The company...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sabic-pulls-out-of-methanol-to-olefins-JV-project_50352.html March 8, 2013
Mitsui & Co. says its wholly owned subsidiary Intercontinental Terminals Co. (ITC; Houston) will invest about $150 million to build a tank terminal on the Houston Ship Channel at...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Mitsui-to-build-US-petrochem-terminal_50353.html March 8, 2013
Katoen Natie (Houston), a logistics service provider, announced it is investing $150 million to build a plastics storage, custom packaging, and distribution facility for petrochemical...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Katoen-Natie-to-build-LA-petchem-logistics-facility_50354.html March 8, 2013
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) opened a flavors manufacturing plant at the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District, in China. The facility is one of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/IFF-China-flavors-plant_50355.html March 8, 2013
Celanese says it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with state-owned energy company Pertamina (Jakarta), and will begin the detailed project-planning phase for the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Celanese-Pertamina-JV_50356.html March 8, 2013
Siluria Technologies (San Francisco), a start-up developing catalyst technology to convert natural gas into chemicals and fuels, says it has appointed chemical industry veteran Ed...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Start-up-taps-executive_50357.html March 8, 2013
Westlake last week agreed to purchase the US-based polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe and foundations business of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain (Paris) subsdiary CertainTeed for $175 million in cash, including $22 million of working capital....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Westlake-acquires-US-PVC-products-business-from-Saint-Gobain-for-$175-million_50358.html March 8, 2013
Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL; Tel Aviv) says that its ICL Performance Products business has agreed to acquire the phosphorus pentasulfide (P2S5) business assets and operations of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/ICL-to-acquire-phosphorus-pentasulfide-business_50361.html March 8, 2013
The government of Belarus is compiling a list of state-owned enterprises it would like to privatize, Georgy Kuznetsov, chairman of the State Property Committee of Belarus (Minsk), announced recently....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Belarus-launches-fertilizer-privatization-plans_50362.html March 8, 2013
Tessenderlo Group (Brussels) says it has received an offer from Mitsubishi Chemical to buy Tessenderlo’s compounds activities. Terms were not disclosed. The intended acquisition...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Mitsubishi-offers-to-acquire-Tessenderlos-compounds_50363.html March 8, 2013
Sibur International, a trading affiliate of Sibur (Moscow), has registered subsidiaries in Istanbul and Kiev. The new offices will trade in basic polymers. In Turkey, where...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sibur-opens-offices_50364.html March 8, 2013
Odfjell reported a net loss of $40 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with a loss of $8 million in the corresponding quarter of 2011 on revenues of $296 million, down from...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Odfjell-losses-widen_50365.html March 8, 2013
Croda posted an increase of 5.1% in operating profit during the fourth quarter of 2012, to £61.9 million ($93 million). Sales rose 2.2%, to £240.1 million. “This achievement in...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Crodas-profits-rise_50366.html March 1, 2013
IMCD Group (Rotterdam) has acquired Indchem International (Mumbai), a distributor of excipients in India. IMCD says its pharmaceuticals business is one of the leading excipient...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/IMCD-buys-in-India_50163.html March 1, 2013
Six sodium chlorate manufacturers have established a consortium to seek authorization under Europe’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals (Reach)...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/New-Reach-consortium_50162.html March 1, 2013
Invista has started production at a new nylon salt facility at Rozenburg, Netherlands. The plant “will provide our customers security of upstream, local supply while further...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Invista-opens-salt-plant_50161.html March 1, 2013
Chemicals production contracted by 1.5% in the European Union in 2012 compared with 2011, Cefic says. The full-year figure is slightly better than Cefic’s previous projection of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/EU-output-decline-in-2012-less-severe-than-expected_50160.html March 1, 2013
DSM’s fourth-quarter net profit down 75%...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/DSMs-fourth-quarter-net-profit-down-75-percent_50159.html March 1, 2013
Bayer says it achieved its targets for 2012. Speaking at a media briefing in Leverkusen on 28 February, Marijn Dekkers, CEO, said that all of Bayer’s subgroups—Bayer...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Bayer-maintains-its-growth-momentum_50158.html |
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