Chemical Industry Weekly News Roundup, Sept. 7

 

Orascom subsidiary IFCo announced plans to invest $1.4 billion to build a 1.5-2 million m.t./year fertilizers complex along the Mississippi River in Iowa. It will be the first world-scale natural gas fertilizer plant built in the U.S. in nearly 25 years.

 

Dow Chemical is changing its management structure to move to a global business unit model.

 

3M and Avery Dennison are renegotiating their $550 million office products deal in light of U.S. antitrust concerns.

 

Momentive Performance Materials has shelved plans for an $862.5 million IPO.

 

 

This blog post in The Washington Post gives a good primer on how to read a U.S. monthly jobs report.

 

ACC president and CEO Cal Dooley wrote a letter to the New York Times critiquing an earlier op-ed on chemical security.

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