Stories Collection

1. CORIXA CORP and GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) have received Food and Drug Administration...
2. GILEAD SCIENCES Inc. has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Em...
3. DSM HAS RESTARTED production at a 120,000 metric ton-per-year melamine plant at Gele...
4. Hercules Inc. expects second quarter earnings per share of 27 to 29c. per share, bea...
5. Borden Chemical Inc. has acquired the filtration media resins business of Lenoir, N....
6. THE AMOUNT of toxic chemicals released into the environment by the nation's chemical...
7. INVESTMENT IN NEW chemical plant in Europe has been rare of late. As the contractors...
8. Dow Wilson Dow Wilson has been named president and CEO of GE Medical Systems I...
9. Leonard A. Kosar Leonard A. Kosar has been named vice president of GE Plastics ...
10. Fluid Enterprises has acquired Jasco Chemical Corp., a Santa Ana, Calif.-based manuf...
11. The US Department of Justice has granted early termination of the waiting period for...
12. TOSHIBA Corp. and Toshiba Ceramics Company Ltd. have developed a lithium-silicate ba...
13. TOFA Eastman Chemical Company has increased its list and off-list prices for the fol...
14. EASTMAN Chemical Company is increasing the global list and off-list prices for sever...
15. THE EUROPEAN Commission has finalized proposals for a centralized system for approvi...
16. HURRICANE CLAUDETTE slammed into the Texas Gulf Coast last week, causing power outag...
17. Genzyme Corp. reported increased revenues of $418.9 million in its second quarter co...
18. INDUSTRIES HEAVILY dependent on natural gas, such as chemical manufacturing, are bei...
19. Thomas J. McNaughton has joined Zyomyx Inc. as vice president of intellectual proper...
20. J. Erik Fyrwald has been named group vice president of Dupont Agriculture and Nutrit...
21. MMA CYRO Industries, a joint partnership between Cytec Industries and Rohm GmbH, wil...
22. SEVERAL agriculture trade groups have expressed their disappointments with the recen...
23. THE EUROPEAN biotechnology sector is still concerned that it will have problems gain...
24. Adding to its consumer products platform, Great Lakes Chemical Corp. has bought A&am...
25. Union Carbide Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company, will permane...
26. AS THE critical Hercules Inc.'s annual shareholders meeting approaches, the rhetoric...
27. The petrochemical sector in China is growing faster than GDP. And the proportion of ...
28. Dennis Wilson Dennis Wilson, founder, chief technology officer and chairman of ...
29. Richard D. Giles Richard D. Giles has been appointed director of business deve...
30. DSM Desotech Inc. and Vantico A&T US Inc. have entered into a settlement agreeme...
31. Improving logistics and transportation to enhance the competitiveness of Latin Ameri...
32. PLIANT Corp. has released a new Maxilene Retort Grade sealant film. The Maxilene bra...
33. THE FINAL announcement of the trans fat labeling regulation by the Food and Drug Adm...
34. FORTITECH Inc. has agreed to acquire the nutritional premix blending business of Ash...
35. BASF AG has established an audit committee that will cover obligations under the US ...
36. IN A LANDMARK deal that resurrects Saudi Arabia's efforts to foster foreign investme...
37. Lonza Biologics and Vaccinex Inc. have formed a strategic alliance for antibody disc...
38. However, final resolution may not come until after the 2004 election. SEEKING ...
39. William E. Heydorn has joined Lexicon Genetics Inc. as vice president of preclinical...
40. DuPont's Finish Line Technologies, the maker of multipurpose aerosil lubricants, is ...
41. BTX Benzene pricing rose 5c. to 6c. per gallon last week. Volumes are low, but energ...
42. WITH ELECTRICITY deregulation scheduled to begin August 1 in New Jersey, chemical ma...
43. BASF ANNOUNCED last week its first long-term global environmental and safety goals i...
44. Jilin Chemical Industry Company of Jilin province, China, a unit of PetroChina Compa...
45. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill late Thursday that would create a $10...
46. POOR DEMAND from methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), the leading end use for methano...
47. China's chemical parks, SCIP and NCIP, are thriving with investment opportunities. S...
48. Charles E. Wickersham Charles E. Wickersham has been appointed R&D manager ...
49. Rob Frohn Rob Frohn, general manager for the surface chemistry business unit o...
50. SENSIENT Technologies Inc. posted a 2 percent gain in second quarter earnings to $21...
51. MERRILL LYNCH analyst Donald Carson has initiated coverage of Valspar Corp. with a &...
52. INDSPEC CHEMICAL Corp. has developed diglycidyl ether of ethoxylated resorcinol (DGE...
53. THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) is requiring new measures to ensure protec...
54. BIOTECH COMPANIES have long used drug discovery and commercialization partnerships a...
55. CELANESE AG has commissioned a new synthetic gas plant at Oberhausen, Germany, that ...
56. Honeywell International Inc. and its joint venture GEM Microelectronic Materials LLC...
57. PTM Engineering Plastics (Nantong) Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Polyplastics Co...
58. CRUDE SULFATE TURPENTINE (CST)'s prices have increased by 15 c. at the end of the se...
59. Adrian Hanrahan has been appointed chemical business manager at Robinson Brothers Lt...
60. Dow Coming Corp. is expanding its operations in Russia and the Commonwealth of Indep...
61. THE CITRIC ACID market appears to be finally climbing out of its deep trough. The cl...
62. ASSERTING THAT the continued availability of methyl bromide is critical for many US ...
63. LAST WEEK, the European chemical industry made its final responses to the European C...
64. MatlinPatterson Global Opportunity Partners has completed its restructuring of the p...
65. SLUGGISH DEMAND and high raw material and energy costs are putting a damper on secon...
66. FOR OVER TEN years JTC has overseen the development of Jurong Island as a world-clas...
67. Lewis stuart Lewis Stuart has been appointed vice president of sales at CV The...
68. Donald M. Condon Donald M. Condon has been elected managing director of Titan ...
69. THE CONSUMER Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has rejected an environmental group's ...
70. JPMORGAN analyst David Silver has slashed his 2003 EPS estimate on IMC Global Inc. f...
71. EMD CHEMICALS Inc. has introduced a new addition to its Colorstream product line, a ...
72. PRESIDENT GEORGE W Bush has appointed Marianne Lamont Horinko acting administrator o...
73. STYRENE Despite increase nominations of 4 to 7c. per pound, July styrene contracts a...
74. DEGUSSA AG has become the latest producer of fine chemicals and biopharmaceutical pr...
75. Mississippi Lime Company has completed its purchase of all of the assets of Vicksbur...
76. CROMPTON CORP. announced a big miss in upcoming second quarter earnings, triggering ...
77. POLYETHYLENE Producers are attempting to implement a 5c. per pound price increase th...
78. Mike Parker has been appointed vice president of quality at Tercica Inc. Mr. Parker ...
79. David J. Anderson has joined Honeywell as senior vice president, chief financial off...
80. Airgas Inc. has extended its e-business presence into three more e-marketplace syste...
81. SUVEN Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a Hyderabad, India-based contract research and manufactu...
82. CELLTECH Group PLC has received marketing authorization for enzyme replacement thera...
83. BAYER AG HAS expanded its line of polycarbonate resins in the Americas region with t...
84. BASF HAS become the latest major chemical company to take advantage of low interest ...
85. BECAUSE OF steady demand growth and a lack of new capacity in the North American pol...
86. Grant J. Carr has joined Albany Molecular Research Inc. as director of screening. Hi...
87. Degussa's wholly owned subsidiary Aztec Peroxides LLC has changed its name to Deguss...
88. AS THE US economy struggles to get back on track, the rate inflation has slowed to a...
89. DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES analyst John Moten plans to leave the company after two and...
90. PALM OIL Palm oil prices have stagnated over the past several weeks following soybea...
91. ROCHE HOLDING AG inked a $230 million deal with Maxygen Inc. to license its next-gen...
92. THE MARKETS for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester fiber are experiencin...
93. Chemical Profile 1,4-BUTANEDIOL PRODUCER CAPACITY *...
94. Ian McInnes has been appointed executive vice president of supply chain at Watson Ph...
95. Cognis Corp. has appointed Surfactants Inc. as the exclusive authorized distributor ...
96. While overall spending on information technology (IT) for chemical companies has rec...
97. THE D-LIMONENE market has seen some recent spikes in pricing. This is driven, in par...
98. THE US MARKET for styrene has entered into a wait-and-see period following an explos...
99. THE CHEMICAL Heritage Foundation (CHF) honored chemists John D. Baldeschwieler and G...
100. DCI Acquisition Inc., a subsidiary of DuPont, has completed the tender offer for all...
101. AS PART OF ITS strategy to divest noncore businesses and reduce debt, Rhodia SA has ...
102. Atoglas, the Atofina subsidiary, will market all acrylic resin products in Europe, A...
103. Steven P. James has been appointed senior vice president of commercial operations at...
104. Pavilion Technologies Inc., a provider of process control and optimization solutions...
105. IN THESE times of roller-coaster feedstock prices and minefield economics, Lehigh Va...
106. A busy week of spot trading of benzene yielded deals at $1.35 per gallon early last ...
107. ALPHARMA Inc. reports that a district court in New Jersey granted a summary judgment...
108. UCB said last week that its profits this year will be affected by the unfavorable ec...
109. Eastman Chemical Company, through its Voridian division, has signed a joint developm...
110. THE SOARING euro is forcing the European chemical industry to cut its growth forecas...
111. Noveon International Inc. has withdrawn an initial public offering (IPO) on the New ...
112. ADDING MORE drama to the upcoming Hercules Inc. annual shareholders meeting, high pr...
113. FALLING DEMAND and growing supplies are threatening the propylene market, which had ...
114. Jay Oyakawa has been appointed president and chief operating officer at Calypte Biom...
115. NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Enzon Pharmaceuticals Inc. have announced the mutual te...
116. In a move to restore confidence in its financial position, Aspen Technologies Inc., ...
117. Vulcan Chemicals has increased off-schedule pricing for all grades of liquid caustic...
118. AIR PRODUCTS and Chemicals Inc. is increasing its prices for Airthane and Versathane...
119. FLAT DEMAND and an improved supply situation has caused butadiene contract prices fo...
120. Cabot Corp. has bought the assets of Superior MicroPowders LLC (SMP), an advanced ma...
121. WHILE POTENTIAL fallout from the benchmark European currency's 39 percent advance on...
122. Frithjof Netzer has been appointed business director of acrylic monomers at BASF. He...
123. Elizabeth Ferguson-Brown has been promoted to president of Spectrum Chemicals and La...
124. As Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc. and J.D. Edwards & Company battle in a high-sta...
125. FERRO PFANSTIEHL Laboratories Inc. has signed two separate agreements with Bioenvisi...
126. BIOMIRA Inc. and Merck KGaA report that vaccine Theratope has failed two predetermin...
127. INNOVATION AND feedstock costs were the two issues on everyone's mind at the Society...
128. H.B. Fuller Company posted a 2 percent increase in underlying fiscal second quarter ...
129. CYTEC INDUSTRIES Inc. has agreed to acquire "substantially all of the assets an...
130. Jean M. Bellin has been appointed to the board of directors of KV Pharmaceutical Com...
131. Valero Refining and Astaris LLC were the recipients of the Chemistry Council of New ...
132. Whoever looks upon the chemical industry concludes: it struggles, it moves and it co...
133. PEAKDALE Molecular Ltd.'s modular, team-based approach to contract chemistry has enc...
134. DIMER ACIDS Cognis Corp.'s polymer building blocks business will increase prices on ...
135. MALIC ACID Effective July 1 on all noncontracted volume, Bartek Ingredients Inc. is ...
136. THE POLYCARBONATE industry is under pressure from the run-up in energy and feedstock...
137. Robert J. Morlino has been named president of Degussa Corp.'s global bleaching and w...
138. Patrick J. McHale has been named vice president of lubrication equipment division at...
139. Penreco has received ISO 9001:2000 certification at its Karns City, Pa., facility fo...
140. BTX Falling energy prices weakened spot benzene as prices dropped to $1.28 per...
141. ALTANA Pharma AG has opened the Altana Research Institute (API) in Waltham, Mass., i...
142. DSM is introducing a new ecofriendly feed additive for pigs. The additive contains u...
143. GOLDSCHMIDT Chemical Corp. has expanded its Hopewell, Va., site, and last week held ...
144. Degussa Buys Cargill's Lysine Joint Venture Share Degussa AG'S US subsidiary, Deguss...
145. IN A MAJOR blow to the struggling specialty chemicals producer, Clariant will termin...
146. A furnace in the ethylbenzene (EB) unit at Nova Chemical Corp.'s Bayport, Tex., plan...
147. Ginger L. Graham has been named president and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. eff...
148. The Wercs Ltd., a provider of material safety data sheet software, reports Henkel Lo...
149. Riding on the coattails of protein drugs, peptides have returned to prominence, gene...
150. Dow Chemical Company will increase the selling price of butyl acrylate, ethyl acryla...
151. THE DUTCH vaccine and antibody company Crucell NV and the Kimron Veterinary Institut...
152. KEMIRA has agreed to acquire the paper chemicals business of Klebstoffwerke Collodin...
153. Air Liquide America LP plans to increase its gaseous and liquid nitrogen and liquid ...
154. THE SPECIALTY materials business of Honeywell is seeing double-digit annual growth f...
155. Air Liquide America has agreed to supply hydrogen and steam to the Chevron Products ...
156. DUPONT MAY be hitting a roadblock in its planned sale of DuPont Textiles & Inter...
157. WHILE THE chemical industry has hardly been a hotbed for venture capital (VC) invest...
158. Madrid, Spain-based Abengoa will invest around [euro]39 million ($45 million) over t...
159. Steve Hartig has been appointed president of DSM Desotech. He previously served as v...
160. JoAnne Brandes, chief administrative officer and general counsel of JohnsonDiversey ...
161. PRICES & PEOPLE Week ending April 4, 2003 These chemical prices are list, u...
162. THE NORTH American magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) market has been balanced during t...
163. Zambon Group SpA is an Italian based multinational pharmaceutical company committed ...
164. RHODIA HAS had its credit ratings downgraded to noninvestment status by Standard &am...
165. Clariant Masterbatches has acquired Quality Colour, a supplier of color and additive...
166. PETROCHINA Company Ltd. will build three massive polypropylene plants in China. The ...
167. THE POLYETHYLENE industry continues to face fierce pressure from the run-up in energ...
168. Steve Van Kouteren has joined Principia Pariners' new minerals and reinforcements co...
169. Raymond J. Brinson has joined Hawk Chemical Company as a sales director and diversit...
170. Degussa and Epichem Ink Deal Degussa and Epichem Ltd. have signed a long-term agreem...
171. The article on ISP in the Financial column on 4/21/03 erroneously listed the Columbu...
172. SGL Carbon has sold its Italian electrical contacts business to Schunk Group of Germ...
173. Sinopec Beijing Yanhun Petrochemical Company, a unit of China Petroleum and Chemical...
174. A BROAD ENERGY BILL passed by the House of Representatives fails to adequately addre...
175. Timothy McCarthy has been named business development manager of the catalyst and ini...
176. Nancy L. Bock has been promoted to vice president of education at The Soap and Deter...
177. AFTER EXPLOSIVE growth between 1999 and 2000, the market for nutraceuticals has cool...
178. BTX The spot market for all products was in a free fall last week. Spot benzene fell...
179. RHODlA is raising the prices of its bulk active pharmaceutical ingredients, includin...
180. CIBA SPECIALTY CHEMICALS is launching a new line of water-soluble dyes for ink-jet p...
181. NaPro BioTherapeutics Inc. is looking to divest its global generic cremaphor injecta...
182. HIGH FEEDSTOCK costs, namely benzene, have put a damper on the US styrene market. Wi...
183. Atofina Chemicals Inc. will be increasing the price of its peresters by 7 percent an...
184. BRISTOL-MYERS Squibb Company has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approva...
185. ETHANOL Iowa Ethanol LLC has begun construction on a 45 million-gallon ethanol plant...
186. JEAN-PIERRE Tirouflet, Rhodia's chairman and chief executive, will confront hostile ...
187. Engelhard Corp. has launched environmental compliance additives CLEANOx and OxyClean...
188. INDUSTRIAL gas profits were relatively steady in the March quarter with Praxair post...
189. Chemical Profile DIMER ACID April 21, 2003 PRODUCER C...
190. Gordon Johnston has joined the Generic Pharmaceutical Association as vice president ...
191. Biogen Inc. has selected Fluor Corp. to build its cell culture manufacturing facilit...
192. Having virtually concluded its mammoth transformation from commodities player to pro...
193. THE MARKET for plant-based products is flourishing as a slew of new, bio-based produ...
194. Allen E. Gray has been appointed program manager of Phillip Townsend Associates Inc....
195. Michael Bailey, chief financial officer of JohnsonDiversey Inc., has been named exec...
196. SAP AG has launched SAP Business One, a new solution for small and midsize businesse...
197. ChemConnect Inc., an e-marketplace for chemicals and plastics, reports Guaranty Clea...
198. EVC INTERNATIONAL is raising its European prices for Evipol suspension polyvinyl chl...
199. BIOGEN Inc. has broken ground on its large-scale 340,000 square foot manufacturing f...