Six companies have newly joined ACC, the group announced today. The six include Clariant Corporation (Charlotte, NC), Cray Valley USA (Exton, PA), Pflaumer Brothers (Ewing, NJ), Southern Chemical (Houston), VanDeMark...
CEO Andrew Liveris says the company is back on solid ground after a tumultuous 2009, and now has the portfolio needed accelerate growth in revenues and profit....
Marijn E. Dekkers, CEO and chaiman-elect at Bayer, says all three Bayer businesses, HealthCare, CropScience, and Bayer Material Science (BMS) are leaders in their own right and are core to Bayer, at least for the time being. Speaking to CW on the...
BASF returned to profit in the fourth-quarter of 2009, the first since 2008 in which volumes exceeded year-ago levels. However, the world's largest chemical maker warned that recovery will be slow. The company is also not planning any major acquisitions...
Global chemical industry production rose for the eleventh consecutive month in January, according to ACC's monthly report on production. The rise totaled 8.2% year-on-year on a three-month, moving average (3MMA) basis, and 0.5% sequentially. The production...
Yvo de Boer has overseen four years of climate change negotiations....
Air Products appears to see big things in small packages, again. After a brisk exit from the North American packaged gases sector in 2002, it is seeking a grand reentrance via a hostile takeover of Airgas (p. 6). Air Products says that a strategic review...
Tom Crotty, CEO of Ineos Olefins and Polymers Europe, has been named president of the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA; Brussels), effective February 1. Crotty succeeds Albert Heuser, who has been appointed president/regional market and business...
ACC has named Walter Moore v.p./federal affairs. Moore was most recently responsible for government relations at Genentech, and previously held positions at the American Hospital Association, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer. Frank Reiner has been appointed president of...
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