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April 15, 2013
Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG; Tokyo) has sold its 6.25% stake in FMC Wyoming, which contains most of FMC’s soda ash and alkali operations, back to FMC for $80 million, NSG says...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/NSG-exits-FMC-soda-ash_51125.html April 15, 2013
Cabot says it has completed a fumed silica expansion at its Barry, Wales, facility, part of a 3-year plan started in 2011 to increase Cabot’s global fumed metal oxide capacity by...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Cabot-expands-fumed-silica-capacity_51124.html April 15, 2013
PPG has acquired Deft (Irvine, CA), a maker of aerospace coatings, including structural primers and military topcoats, the company says. Financial details of the deal, including...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/PPG-acquires-maker-of-aerospace-coatings_51123.html April 15, 2013
Kuraray broke ground on a greenfield polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) plant located at La Porte, TX, on 11 April, the company says. The plant will have a production capacity of over 40,000...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Kuraray-breaks-ground-on-PVOH-plant_51122.html April 15, 2013
Air Liquide says it has begun commercial production at the second of two nitrogen liquefiers at the company’s Cleburne, TX, facility. The second liquefier will enable Air Liquide...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Air-Liquide-starts-second-nitrogen-liquefier-at-TX-site_51121.html April 15, 2013
In a bid to beat the crowd of ethane cracker projects destined for the United States, Sasol has ordered the main ethylene compressor trains of its Lake Charles, LA, $5–7-billion...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Sasol-orders-compressors-licenses-process-technology_51120.html April 15, 2013
Dow AgroSciences and Monsanto say they have signed royalty-bearing agreements to cross license corn trait technology for weed and insect management. The agreement paves the way for...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Monsanto-licenses-Dows-Enlist-corn-trait_51119.html April 1, 2013
Argentine oil-producer YPF and Dow Chemical are negotiating a joint venture to develop shale gas in Argentina....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Dow-YPF-agree-to-negotiate-Argentina-shale-JV_50837.html March 29, 2013
Vinyls company Kem One (Lyon, France) was put into receivership by the commercial court of Lyon on 27 March. The move follows a filing for insolvency with the court by Kem One’s...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Vinyls-producer-Kem-One-enters-receivership_50846.html March 29, 2013
Ashland says that Lamar Chambers, senior v.p. and CFO, will retire in July after 37 years of service. The board has elected Kevin Willis to succeed Chambers as senior v.p. and CFO...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Ashland-appoints-CFO_50844.html March 29, 2013
Air Products announced it has licensed its adsorption-based monomer recovery technology to Cryo Technologies (Allentown, PA), a supplier of custom engineered process equipment. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Air-Products-license_50845.html March 29, 2013
OxyChem (Dallas), a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, says it is constructing a hydrochloric acid (HCI) synthesis unit at its Niagara Falls, NY, chlor-alkali plant. The unit is...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/OxyChem-to-construct-HCI-unit-at-Niagara-Falls-plant_50838.html March 29, 2013
Brazilian holding company Unipar has agreed to acquire OxyChem’s 50% stake in Carbocloro for 500 million reais ($273 million). Unipar owns the other 50% of Carbocloro, a producer of...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Unipar-buys-out-OxyChems-stake-in-Carbocloro_50839.html March 29, 2013
Adhesives maker H.B. Fuller has reported net income from continuing operations of $20.8 million, or 41 cts/share, for the company’s fiscal first quarter. Net income from continuing...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/H-B-Fuller-earnings-up-but-slightly-short-of-estimates_50840.html March 29, 2013
Airgas has updated its 2013 guidance as a result of lower-than-expected organic sales growth—particularly in its distribution segment—with the new earnings per share (EPS)...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Airgas-adjusts-earnings-guidance-after-low-sales_50841.html March 29, 2013
Ecolab has announced that it expects the close of its $2.2-billion acquisition of oil field services firm Champion Technologies to occur on or before 15 April. The deal was previously...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Ecolab-extends-Champion-close-date-to-15-April_50842.html March 29, 2013
ACC released its chemical activity barometer (CAB) for the month of March—showing a 0.4% increase in activity from February, to 92.5, on a 3-month moving average (3MMA) basis. The...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/ACC-March-CAB-gains_50843.html March 29, 2013
Italmatch Chemicals (Genoa, Italy), a producer of phosphorus derivatives and specialty additives for plastics, lubricants, and water management, has acquired the Dequest phosphonates...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Italmatch-acquires-two-businesses-from-Thermphos_50847.html March 29, 2013
The supervisory board of DSM will propose at the company’s annual meeting on 3 May to appoint Dimitri de Vreeze to DSM’s managing board with responsibility for DSM’s material science clusters, effective 1 September....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/De-Vreeze-to-succeed-Gerardu-on-DSMs-board_50848.html March 29, 2013
Air Liquide has announced the acquisition of NordicInfu Care (Nacka Strand, Sweden), a provider of in-home infusion therapy for patients with chronic diseases in the Nordic countries...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/news_briefs/Air-Liquide-Sweden-deal_50849.html |
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