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March 15, 2010
Terra Industries says it has accepted CF Industries’ March 2, $47.40/share takeover offer, which values Terra at about $4.7 billion. Terra has informed Yara International (Oslo)...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/CF-Industries-Gains-Upper-Hand-in-Bidding-War-for-Terra_25357.html March 15, 2010
Dow Chemical has agreed to sell its styrenics unit, Styron, to Bain Capital (Boston) for $1.63 billion. The sale is part of the company’s continuing efforts to mend its balance sheet...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Dow-Sells-Styron-to-Bain-Capital-for-$1-63-Billion_25358.html March 1, 2010
Airgas’ board has recommended that shareholders reject Air Products’ hostile offer to acquire Airgas. Air Products launched its hostile bid after Airgas rebuffed its unsolicited...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Airgas-Urges-Shareholders-to-Reject-Air-Products-Bid_25021.html March 1, 2010
Yara International (Oslo), the biggest producer of nitrogen fertilizers, has agreed to buy Terra Industries for $4.1 billion in cash, just weeks after CF Industries abandoned a hostile...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Yara-International-to-Buy-Terra-Industries-for-$4-1-Billion_25022.html February 15, 2010
Air Products commenced a $5.1-billion hostile bid to acquire Airgas last week after several private and public approaches were rejected....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Air-Products-Launches-Hostile-Bid-For-Airgas_24737.html February 1, 2010
Volume growth and lower cost bases drove earnings at basic and diversified chemical firms upward in the final quarter of 2009. Continuing sluggishness in North America and Europe hurt...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Profit-Gains-are-Strong-at-Most-Diversified-Chemical-Firms_24459.html January 25, 2010
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has granted LyondellBasell more time to file exclusively its plan of reorganization. Judge Robert Gerber extended until...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/LyondellBasell-Gets-Extension-to-File-Reorganization-Plan_24282.html January 25, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has stepped up its inquiry into Monsanto’s licensing practices amid a larger investigation into consolidation of the seeds industry and accusations of anti-competitive practices by the biotech giant. Separately, Monsanto scored a victory over its most vocal critic when a federal court ruled against DuPont in a patent infringement lawsuit challenging DuPont’s rights to stack Monsanto’s Roundup Ready (RR) trait with DuPont’s Optimum GAT trait....http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Monsanto-Faces-DOJ-Inquiry-Wins-DuPont-Patent-Suit_24283.html January 11, 2010
EPA’s late December release of four chemical action plans under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) offers key details on how EPA intends to use its existing authority “to the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/EPA-Lays-Groundwork-for-New-Regulations-Under-TSCA_24029.html January 11, 2010
Qatar Petroleum (QP; Doha) and ExxonMobil Chemical have signed an agreement to advance their plans to build a world-scale petrochemicals complex at Ras Laffan, Qatar. The complex will...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/QP-ExxonMobil-Sign-Deal-for-Qatar-Petchems-Project_24030.html December 28, 2009
Evonik Industries has confirmed German press reports that the company plans to split off its energy and real estate businesses, and focus on chemicals. “As part of its new...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Evonik-to-Split-off-Energy-and-Real-Estate-Businesses_23653.html November 30, 2009
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings (MCH), Japan’s largest chemical group, says it will launch a tender offer to buy Mitsubishi Rayon at the beginning of February 2010 and plans to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Mitsubishi-Chemical-to-Acquire-Mitsubishi-Rayon_23145.html November 30, 2009
Reliance Industries has made a cash bid for a controlling stake in LyondellBasell Industries. Sources close to Reliance say the company is prepared to pay $6 billion-$12 billion to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Reliance-Industries-Bids-for-LyondellBasell_23146.html November 16, 2009
Dow Chemical said last week that it expects to generate normalized earnings of $3.50-$5.50/share through 2015, roughly double that of the previous 2002-2005 upcycle when annual...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Dow-Says-Its-Earnings-Potential-has-Doubled_22763.html November 16, 2009
Partners in the ethylene and derivatives complex planned for Mexico’s Gulf Coast have signed an agreement with Pemex for supply of 66,000 bbls/day ethane beginning in 2015, a...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Pemex-Supply-Deal-Marks-Major-Advance-for-Mexico-Cracker_22764.html November 2, 2009
Basic and diversified chemical firms posted stronger-than-expected earnings in the third quarter, even as sales fell sharply. Cost-cutting actions, as well as lower raw material costs...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Earnings-Rebound-at-Most-Basic-and-Diversified-Firms_22488.html October 19, 2009
One year after the financial meltdown that decimated profits, analysts and manufacturers see the light of recovery at the end of the tunnel. Many chemical firms are poised to beat...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Earnings-Outlook-Improving-on-Cost-Cuts-and-Quarterly-Gains_22116.html October 19, 2009
BASF reported preliminary third-quarter Ebit before special items down 20%, to €1.25 billion ($1.86 billion), on sales down 19%, to €12.8 billion. BASF says it will announce...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/BASF-Says-It-Will-Beat-Estimates_22117.html October 5, 2009
Senators Barbara Boxer (D., CA) and John Kerry (D., MA) have introduced climate legislation that would cut U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 20% by 2020, a slightly larger cut than...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Senate-Takes-up-Climate-but-Progress-this-Year-Unlikely_21809.html October 5, 2009
A recent Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD; Paris) report may have undermined a key tenet of the western chemical industry’s lobbying position at the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/OECD-Report-denies-Existence-of-Carbon-Leakage-Advises-against-sector-subsidies_21810.html |
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