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July 25, 2007
Leaders of European Union (EU) member states signed a binding agreement last week to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets. German chancellor and European Council president...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/EU-States-Agree-to-Cut-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions-20-percent_5822.html July 25, 2007
Global basic and diversified chemical makers say weak North American markets were a drag on first-quarter profits, but favorable European and Asian demand partially offset those...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Basic-Results-Mixed-on-Weak-U-S-Markets_6224.html July 25, 2007
The current year will be a “reasonable” one for the Asian petrochemical industry but high feedstock prices and the build-up of capacity in the Mideast, targeting Asia in...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/APIC-2007-Asia-Readies-for-Troubled-Waters_6449.html July 25, 2007
Air Products says that John P. Jones, chairman and CEO, will retire as CEO on October 1, and be succeeded in that position by John E. McGlade, president and COO. Jones will...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Air-Products-CEO-to-Retire-in-October_6450.html July 25, 2007
A CSX train carrying chemicals, including cyclohexane, derailed and caught fire 30 miles south of Louisville, KY last Wednesday, forcing about 500 people within a mile radius to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Hazmat-Train-Derailment-Prompts-Evacuation-in-Kentucky_5445.html July 25, 2007
PPG Industries reported fourth-quarter earnings up 12%, to $160 million (96 cts/share), excluding charges of $3 million (2 cts/share). The consensus of analysts’ estimates was...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/PPGs-Earnings-Miss-But-Diversified-Chemical-Firms-Expected-to-Come-Out-on-Top_5444.html July 24, 2007
The Senate has passed a military funding bill that includes language that would prevent the federal government from preempting state chemical plant security laws. In a separate bill...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Congress-Moves-On-Plant-Safety-Rerouting_6053.html July 24, 2007
Airgas has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Linde’s U.S. packaged gas business and retail stores for $310 million. The acquired business includes 130 locations in 18...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Airgas-to-Acquire-Lindes-U-S-Packaged-Gas-Business_6054.html July 24, 2007
Lyondell Chemical says it has signed an agreement to sell its Millennium Chemicals’ titanium dioxide (TiO2) business to privately held National Titanium Dioxide (Cristal; Yanbu...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Saudi-Arabian-Firm-to-Buy-Lyondells-TiO2-Business_5770.html July 24, 2007
Reliance Industries says it will go ahead with previously announced plans to build a huge olefins complex at Jamnagar, India (CW, May 3, 2006, p. 18). The Reliance board approved the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Reliance-Goes-Ahead-with-Indian-Mega-Cracker_5771.html July 24, 2007
Dow Chemical and Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corp. (NOC; Tripoli) have announced plans to form a joint venture to refurbish and operate NOC’s Ras Lanuf petrochemical...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Dow-Plans-Petchem-JV-in-Libya-Eyes-Ethane-Cracker_6156.html July 23, 2007
General Electric (GE) has approached a handful of private equity firms to seek bids on its $6.6-billion/year GE Plastics unit, industry sources say. Bidding for the unit is likely to...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/GE-Shops-Plastics-Unit-to-Private-Equity-Firms_5401.html December 31, 1969
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 December 31, 1969
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 December 31, 1969
Seven Taiwanese petrochemical producers have joined forces to explore a multibillion-dollar investment in mainland China, CW has learned. The complex is expected to be located in a...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Seven-Taiwanese-Firms-Link-in-China-Petchems-Investment_20927.html December 31, 1969
DuPont says it will invest $120 million to increase production capacity for monomer and resins used to produce its Tedlar brand polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) films, a key component of the...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/DuPont-UPs-Photovoltaic-Materials-Capacity_20928.html December 31, 1969
Airgas, Air Products, DuPont, and PPG Industries surprised analysts with better-than-expected earnings, reporting profits that were still far below the year-ago period but improved on...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Diversified-Firms-Beat-Estimates-But-Earnings-Tumble_20360.html December 31, 1969
Second-quarter earnings at specialty chemical firms were hit hard by weak sales volumes and customer destocking. Sherwin-Williams (SW) reported net income of $158 million, down 8%...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Lower-Volumes-Drag-Down-Specialties-Profits_20361.html December 31, 1969
Agricultural and fertilizer businesses led second-quarter earnings gains for U.S. chemical companies. However, higher selling prices across all sectors were not enough to offset...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Higher-Costs-Strain-Earnings-Ag-Stays-Bright_13244.html December 31, 1969
Solutia reached a settlement last week with lenders to fund its $2-billion exit financing package. The deal cleared the way for the company to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy...http://www.chemweek.com/sections/top_of_the_week/Solutia-Settlement-Clears-Path-for-Bankruptcy-Exit_13885.html |
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