http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:29:42 EDT Trading company Toyota Tsusho (Nagoya, Japan) says it has signed a commercial contract with Braskem (São Paulo) to market Braskem’s “green” polyethylene (PE) in Asia... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/14615.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Trading company Toyota Tsusho (Nagoya, Japan) says it has signed a commercial contract with Braskem (Sao Paulo) to market jointly green polyethylene from sugarcane in Asia. Braskem plans to... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/14410.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Mitsui Chemicals and Tokuyama (Tokyo) say they have agreed to jointly develop a manufacturing process for silane gas. The companies say they will soon begin work on the project, pooling their... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/14325.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Mitsui Chemicals and Tokuyama (Tokyo) say they have agreed to jointly develop a manufacturing process for silane gas. The companies say they will soon begin work on the project and will combine... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/14150.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Several more Japanese and Korean petrochemical companies have decided to cut operating rates at their naphtha crackers due to falling demand for ethylene, reports say. However, the ethylene... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/14036.html Mon, 8 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Integration of Kao’s logistics operations with that of Kanebo Cosmetics, which Kao acquired in 2006, is well under way with integration work already completed in the Hokkaido and Kansai... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/14055.html Mon, 8 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Vopak says its Nippon Vopak joint venture has agreed with Mitsui & Co. to... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/13764.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Mitsui Chemicals says that it will break ground on a facility to develop a methanol synthetic process from carbon dioxide (CO2) in October, at the company’s site in Osaka, Japan. The move... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/13820.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Drilling products and services company Imdex (Perth, Australia) says it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire all shares in specialty chemicals firm Wildcat Chemicals Australia (Brisbane)... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/13746.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Mitsubishi Chemical, subject of this week’s cover story (p. 17), offers a glimpse at influences and strategies that are reshaping Japan’s chemical sector. A prolonged domestic slump... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/north_asia/japan/13602.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT