http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:15:53 EDT Solvay says it will invest €55 million ($79 million) to modernize chlorine manufacturing facilities at Tavaux, France, replacing some of its mercury-based electrolysis production cells with... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14617.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT The petrochemical industry is following a downward trend due to weaker-than-expected markets in 2008, marked by high feedstock costs, lagging polymer prices, excess capacity, and overall poor... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14636.html Mon, 6 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT The European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG; Brussels) and the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council of Europe (IPEC Europe; Brussels) say they have developed a proposal for a... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14536.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Arkema says it will build a 50,000-m.t./year 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate line at the company’s... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14467.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT But the industry must work hard to improve its image, says Total's Cornelis.... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14492.html Mon, 29 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Lonza says it has entered into a co-exclusive global manufacturing, sales and distribution agreement with biopharmaceutical company Crucell (Leiden, Netherlands) for Permexcis, a cell culture... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14412.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT About 300 firefighters from France and the U.K. this morning extinguished a chemical truck fire that had been burning for 16 hours deep inside the 31-mile Channel Tunnel. The undersea tunnel... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14153.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Why do our bodies have mass? Why is only 4% of the universe made up of matter and why doesn’t the other 96% have mass? These are the fundamental questions-among others-that the... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/14121.html Wed, 10 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT Arkema reported second-quarter net income up 60%, to €60 million, on sales up 1%, to €1.5 billion. Ebitda rose 5%, to €158 million. Sales rose mostly... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/13497.html Thu, 7 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT 3M says it has agreed to acquire polyurethane-based structural adhesives and sealants producers EMFI (Haguenau, France) and SAPO (Haguenau). EMFI and SAPO together employ... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/france/13424.html Mon, 4 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT