http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:09:52 EDT Liquid chemicals are being transported longer distances leading to greater demand for temporary storage, the company says.... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13930.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM Engineering Plastics, a DSM subsidiary, has agreed to acquire the polymerization assets of Diolen Industrial Fibers (Arnhem, the Netherlands). The... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13761.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT LyondellBasell reported a second-quarter loss from continuing operations of $16 million compared to income from continuing operations $159 million in the year-ago quarter. Results were impacted... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13712.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Shell’s chemical business posted a big drop in second-quarter profits to $157 million, from $626 million a year earlier. The chemical business reported a $142-million loss for... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13393.html Mon, 4 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Akzo Nobel reported second-quarter net income down 18%, to €184 million ($289 million), on sales up 2%, to €3.9 billion. “AkzoNobel showed a resilient performance to the changing world... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13307.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Dow Europe says it temporarily stopped production of all polystyrene (PS) grades at its 50,000-m.t./year Terneuzen, the Netherlands plant last week. Dow idled one of its two styrene units at... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/13277.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Yara says that the cost of its previously announced urea project at Sluiskil, the Netherlands has increased to about €400 million ($627.7 million), from €300 million (CW, Oct. 31... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/12975.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Lonza says it has entered into a long-term strategic partnership with Novartis for the joint development and manufacture of Novartis's biologics pipeline. R&D activities over the past few... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/12930.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT DSM Agro, DSM's fertilizers production subsidiary, which along with some other businesses is up for sale, says that technical problems, which arose at one of its ammonia plants at... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/12857.html Mon, 7 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Shell Chemicals says it has completed an expansion of a polyols plant at Pernis, the Netherlands. Capacity of the plant has been raised from 155,000 m.t./year to 255,000 m.t./year, reinforcing... http://www.chemweek.com/regions/western_europe/netherlands/12814.html Wed, 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT