http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2010 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:30:46 EDT Dow AgroSciences says it will invest about $340 million in a multi-year expansion of its global headquarters at Indianapolis, IN. The expansion will add more than 550 scientific and commercial... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25334.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT LyondellBasell has filed its reorganization plan with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, rejecting Reliance Industry’s $14.5-billion bid for the company... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25335.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Monsanto has completed a previously announced $200 million expansion project at its Luling, LA glyphosate plant and is set to begin defending its business practices at a public Department of... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25336.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT DuPont says it has restarted most of the units at its Belle, WV chemical complex, but some operations directly related to recent accidents will remain offline. Problems at the site include a... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25359.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Some industry experts viewed Senator Frank Lautenberg’s (D., NJ) remarks at a panel on reform of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) as an effort to allay industry concerns that his... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25360.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Quinn: Renewable energy a growth source. Solutia has agreed to buy photovoltaic (PV) encapsulant producer Etimex Solar (Dietenheim, Germany), a maker of ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA)-based... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25361.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Fourth-quarter earnings were mixed at late-reporting firms. Braskem’s loss narrowed to R$893 million ($496.7 million), compared with a R$2.1-billion loss in the same period of 2008. The... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25362.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Eastman Chemical has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against DAK Americas over their alleged unauthorized use of Eastman’s IntegRex technology for... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25363.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Sixteen cities in six Midwestern states recently filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Illinois seeking payment from Syngenta to recoup the costs of filtering the company’s embattled... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25364.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Moody’s Investors Service (New York) says it has upgraded the outlook for the North American and European chemical industry from negative to stable. “The fundamental credit conditions across... http://www.chemweek.com/sections/business_finance/usa_americas/25365.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT