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January 18, 2013
Uralkali (Berezniki, Russia), among the world’s biggest producers of potash with a market share of about 20%, says its potassium chloride production in full year 2012 decreased 16%...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Uralkali-output-decline_49082.html January 18, 2013
Praxair’s Brazilian subsidiary White Martins has started up a new air separation unit (ASU) at Alagoas, Brazil. Praxair will supply nitrogen and oxygen to Braskem as a part of a...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Praxair-starts-up-ASU-for-Braskems-PVC-unit-in-Brazil_49102.html January 18, 2013
Energy-focused private equity firm Intervale Capital (Boston) has taken a majority stake in oil field chemicals and water treatment business Aegis Chemical Solutions (The Woodlands...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/PE-firm-Intervale-acquires-Aegis-Chemical-Solutions_49103.html January 18, 2013
Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals (GSFC; Vadodara, India), an agrobusiness that produces and sells fertilizers and industrial products, announced it has agreed to purchase a...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Indian-agrobusiness-buys-stake-in-potash-company_49104.html January 18, 2013
PetroLogistics (Houston) has successfully completed repairs on its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility at Houston and resumed production of propylene. PetroLogistics shut down the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/PetroLogistics-restarts-Houston-PDH-facility_49105.html January 18, 2013
Synthesis Energy Systems (SES; Houston) says that it has entered into an agreement with an undisclosed US-based company to assess the feasibility of using SES’s gasification...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Synthesis-Energy-signs-gasification-feasibility-deal_49106.html January 18, 2013
Raymond: Takes helm at Sonneborn. Sonneborn (Parsippany, NJ), a manufacturer and supplier of white oils and specialty hydrocarbons, announced it has appointed Paul Raymond as president...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sonneborn-names-CEO_49107.html January 18, 2013
Oxea announced it is expanding its production site at Bishop, TX, to add capacity for potassium formate and trimethylolpropane. Financial terms were not disclosed. Separately, Oxea...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Oxea-expansion-prices_49108.html January 18, 2013
O’Rourke Petroleum (Houston), a distributor of lubricants, fuels, and environmental services, announced that it is acquiring Penco Oil (Tyler, TX), a family-owned distributor of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/ORourke-acquisition_49109.html January 18, 2013
Molycorp (Greenwood Village, CO) says its has begun operations at its rare earth manufacturing complex at Mountain Pass, CA. The company plans to ramp up to its full-scale, phase-1 run...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Molycorp-begins-production-at-its-rare-earths-complex-at-Mountain-Pass-CA_49110.html January 11, 2013
Enterprise Products (Houston) says it has sold out the production of its propane dehydrogenation (PDH) facility, currently under construction in Texas and scheduled to begin operations...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Enterprise-PDH-unit-sold-out-amid-strong-demand-additional-capacity-possible_48905.html January 11, 2013
Rain CII Carbon (Kingwood, TX) says it has acquired Rütgers (Zelzate, Belgium), a producer of coal tar pitch and coal tar–based chemicals, from private equity firm Triton for a...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/US-petroleum-coke-firm-acquires-Rütgers_48895.html January 11, 2013
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) last month added 54 substances of very high concern (SVHC) to the candidate list of substances for authorization under the European...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/ECHA-adds-54-substances-to-Reach-candidate-list_48896.html January 11, 2013
Scheitza: Deal strengthens more than just fruit and vegetable business. Bayer CropScience has agreed to acquire microbial crop protection supplier Prophyta (Malchow, Germany)...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Bayer-acquires-microbial-crop-protection-supplier_48897.html January 11, 2013
Biesterfeld (Hamburg) has acquired all shares of Küttner (Speyer, Germany), with immediate effect. The acquisition is expected to help Biesterfeld Plastic, a Biesterfeld subsidiary...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Biesterfeld-buys-rubber-distributor-in-Germany_48898.html January 11, 2013
Kem One (Lyon, France), the polyvinyl chloride business acquired by the Klesch Group from Arkema in 2011, has appointed Marco Toscano as COO and an executive committee member...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Kem-One-appointment_48899.html January 11, 2013
BASF has entered the market for solid nylon salt (AH salt) with the start-up of a 24,000-m.t./year plant at Ludwigshafen. Producing solid AH salt, as opposed to the existing 62% AH...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/BASF-adds-salt_48900.html January 11, 2013
Sibur (Moscow) says it has completed an expansion of methyl tert -butyl ether (MTBE) capacity at Tchaikovsky, Russia, to 220,000 m.t./year, from 200,000 m.t./year. Sibur’s other...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sibur-MTBE-hike_48901.html January 11, 2013
Waters: More opportunities to grow with Golden Gate Capital. Private equity firm Golden Gate Capital (GGC; San Francisco) has acquired ArrMaz Custom Chemicals (Mulberry, FL) from its...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/ArrMaz-Custom-Chemicals-gets-new-owners_48906.html January 11, 2013
Mosaic reported a slight gain in net earnings but a drop in sales for its fiscal second quarter, ended 30 November. Net earnings of $629 million were less than 1% higher than the same...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Mosaic-earnings-up-despite-flat-sales-on-low-volumes_48907.html |
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