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1. SUSAN ALEXANDER Susan Alexander has been appointed senior vice president and g...
2. Procter & Gamble Company has formed a a 10-year, $400 million global agreement w...
3. Church & Dwight Inc. will raise off-list pricing for all USP, food and technical...
4. PUTTING ASIDE overcapacity, conservative outsourcing, a paucity of approvals from th...
5. THE POLYURETHANES market remains strong despite being challenged by high energy and ...
6. Akzo Nobel will obtain full ownership of Interpon Powder Coatings Co. Ltd. (IPCK), a...
7. FACED WITH skyrocketing capital costs, Methanex Corp. will not proceed with a planne...
8. WILLIAM C. STIVERS William C. Stivers, former executive vice president and chie...
9. LINCOLN KROCHMAL Lincoln Krochmal has been named executive rice president of r...
10. Earl H. Wagener has been appointed a director of technology analysis and planning at...
11. The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index, which had rebounded in August, gav...
12. Astaris LLC will increase schedule and off-schedule pricing for selected phosphate p...
13. HUMKO OIL Products now offers Trisun high oleic sunflower in expeller pressed form. ...
14. AFTER SEVERAL months of mounting criticism, Rhodia CEO and chairman Jean-Pierrre Tir...
15. Grace Bauprodukte GmbH, the German subsidiary of W.R. Grace & Co., has acquired ...
16. PHILLIP M. SCHNEIDER Phillip M. Schneider has joined the board of directors and...
17. JONATHAN GOODSON Jonathan Goodson has been named a technical support specialist...
18. Richard Hartshorn Richard Hartshorn has been appointed a director of technology...
19. US manufacturing grew for a third consecutive month in September, although the rate ...
20. Air Liquide America LP and Croda Inc. have signed an agreement in which Air Liquide ...
21. ACH FOOD Companies has purchased the private label retail bottled oil business of Bu...
22. LAST WEEK, Bayer's chemicals operation became a separate legal entity within the gro...
23. German conglomerate MG Technologies AG has decided to divest all its chemicals opera...
24. ROBERT W. FRANTZ Robert W. Frantz has been appointed vice president of environm...
25. BASF AG's corporate headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany, has been opened as a co-l...
26. SSA Global, an ERP software provider, has announced a four-pronged product strategy ...
27. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will increase schedule pricing on liquid and bulk ox...
28. THE SUNFLOWER oil market may soon get some relief after prices reached historic high...
29. EUROPE'S biotechnology sector was hoping that new European Union (EU) legislation on...
30. BAYER AG plans to shed its plasma business, but will hold onto the Kogenate product ...
31. STEVE DUBIN Steve Dubin has been elected president of Martek Biosciences Corp. ...
32. Lubrizol Corp. has completed its acquisition of selected personal care product lines...
33. Microsoft has released the Microsoft BizTalk Toolkit for Elemica, an online chemical...
34. THE NORTH American ferric chloride market has been generally balanced to oversupplie...
35. TICONA, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG, has launched Celanex 14 Seri...
36. THE EUROPEAN Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) conceded last week that revisions mad...
37. ASHLAND INC. is launching a second round of job cuts to reduce expenses by an additi...
38. NATIONAL PAINT and COATINGS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, Hilton Walt Disney World Res...
39. Paul L. Matson has been appointed senior vice president of human resources at Akzo N...
40. Kousay Said has been named vice president of sales and sales service at Dow Automoti...
41. SAP AG has launched new warehouse management capabilities in mySAP Supply Chain Mana...
42. Paraxylene September US contracts were concluded at 29.5c. per pound, a 1.5c. increa...
43. BUNGE Ltd.'s Brazilian subsidiary, Bunge Alimentos, has leased a soybean crushing pl...
44. ANSWERING THE call for new antibiotics to treat serious infections, Cubist Pharmaceu...
45. THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) says moves by a consortium of European petrochemical pr...
46. Qilu Eastman Specialty Chemical Ltd., a joint venture between Sinopec Qilu Petrochem...
47. ADDING TO the chemical industry's credit woes, Standard & Poor's (S&P) has d...
48. THE POLYPROPYLENE market is reviving, and producers are seeking a 3 cent price incre...
49. Lori Goucher has been appointed operations manager of diphenylmethane diisocyanate a...
50. Huntsman has expanded its partnership with Univar, a chemicals distributor, strength...
51. AlphaGary Corp. has been selected by Dragerwerk AG to supply a specialty TYPE materi...
52. Solvay Chemicals Inc. (formerly Solvay Minerals) has increased the pricing of dense ...
53. Company will raise the selling price of many of its solvents and organic intermediat...
54. THE RECENT electricity blackout, like the ongoing natural gas crisis, is the result ...
55. SAUDI ARABIA, which along with Iran is the world's fastest growing petrochemicals ex...
56. THE RUTHERFORD Chemicals division of Cambrex Corp., long a strong cash generator tha...
57. POLYPROPYLENE 2003, cosponsored by Maack Business Services and Modern Plastics Inter...
58. FRANK PLAHUTNIK Frank Plahutnik has joined Daikin America Inc., a wholly owned subsi...
59. Laura Cory has been named president of Sun Chemical Corp.'s digital business unit. M...
60. Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in August for the second consecut...
61. LONZA has chosen Metagenics as its exclusive marketing partner for PepZin GI, a pate...
62. ALUMINUM SULFATE General Chemical Corp. will increase schedule and sub-schedule pric...
63. PAROXETINE GlaxoSmithKline has received FDA approval for Paxil CR (paroxetine HCI) C...
64. DAVID J. ELLIOTT David J. Elliott has been named corporate controller at Cabot ...
65. Santiago, Chile-based Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA (SQM) will pay about $1....
66. ZINC AMMONIUM CHLORIDE Zaclon Inc. has increased pricing on all grades of zinc ammon...
67. SPI Polyols Inc. is increasing off-list pricing across its line of basic and special...
68. Celanese will increase off-list selling prices of vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) effect...
69. The US District Court of Montana has ruled in favor of the US government in its laws...
70. NAPRO BIOTherapeutics Inc. is exiting the generic paclitaxel business to locus on it...
71. STEPHEN KRAYNAK Stephen Kraynak has joined Altivia Corp. as regional sales dir...
72. EFFORTS IN Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to consolidate the region's fragmented r...
73. Dow Chemical Company and Celanese AG have reached an agreement for Dow to purchase t...
74. ETHYLENE September 29, 2003 PRODUCER ...
75. Gary L. Kubera has been appointed director of sales at Nexen Chemicals. Mr. Kubera h...
76. Jane Palmieri has been named vice president of plastics and fluids at Dow Automotive...
77. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Pavilion Technologies Inc.'s ...
78. Eastman Chemical Company has announced a 2c. per pound increase for oxo alcohols, al...
79. BIODIESEL Minnesota Soybean Processors is planning to build a 30 million gallon biod...
80. SORBITOL Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) will increase spot selling prices on l...
81. TICONA, CELANESE AG's technical polymers business, is cutting 140 jobs in selling, g...
82. Greenwich, Conn.-based private investment firm Littlejohn and Company LLC has agreed...
83. REFORM OF the Clean Air Act's New Source Review (NSR) program is crucial to the long...
84. Barbara J. Wolf has been named chief compliance officer at Esoterix. She will be res...
85. Ron Ciora has been named vice president of caustic soda at Pioneer Companies Inc. He...
86. Two Alabama judges have approved a $600 million cash settlement of two cases involvi...
87. Rock-Tred Corp. has created a package for multiple-component polymer coatings, the R...
88. Dow Chemical Company has increased off-list pricing for all grades of caustic soda s...
89. Spot benzene prices for September are in the $1.46 to $1.50 per gallon range while O...
90. THE PROTRACTED high cost of natural gas and the threat of renewed spikes in gas pric...
91. KEMIRA IS expanding its Ecocat catalytic converter business to provide broader and m...
92. AS PART OF its ongoing separation from its parent company, DuPont Textiles & Int...
93. * Short tons per year, 100 percent FeC[I.sub.3] basis. Most ferric chloride is produ...
94. JOHN C. ORR John C. Orr has been named president and chief operating officer of Myer...
95. EOTT Energy LLC will phase out methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) production at its ...
96. The Uniform Code Council Inc. (UCC) has launched its UCC Solution Partner Program, w...
97. LYCOPENE The Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged GRAS (generally recognize...
98. SULFUR PRICES have gained some momentum over the last couple of weeks, particularly ...
99. OFLOXACIN Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has received Food and Drug Administrat...
100. MICHAEL J. DOUGLAS Michael J. Douglas has been appointed president of Praxair A...
101. Degussa AG will begin construction of a new superabsorbent polymers (SAP) plant in B...
102. SODIUM SILICATE National Silicates, an affiliate of the PQ Corp., has raised pricing...
103. CEMENTING ITS role as one of the largest suppliers of tantalum in the world, Cabot C...
104. Celanese Chemicals will increase off-list selling prices of ethyl acetate effective ...
105. IDB Infrastructure Fund LP is acquiring a 23 percent shareholding in Saudi Internati...
106. JORDAN BROMINE Company Ltd. (JBC) says that by January 2005, it plans to construct a...
107. JAMES P. KELLY James P. Kelly has been named director of internal audit at Cabo...
108. TESSENDERLO reported a 39 percent decline in operating profit to 22.5 million [euro]...
109. METHANEX CORP. WILL consider new projects in the long term for East Asia as that &qu...
110. William D. Young has been appointed to the board of directors of Human Genome Scienc...
111. Jussi Holopainen has been appointed president and CEO of Pharmatory Oy. Mr. Holopain...
112. Sigma-Aldrich Corp. has received a pollution prevention award from the Environmental...
113. InnoCentive, a Web-based body for scientific research, reports Henkel Group has join...
114. Dow Chemical Company Effective October 1, the epoxy products and intermediates busin...
115. ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND Company (ADM) and Burcon NutraScience have entered into a lic...
116. BENEATH THE hype of biopharmaceuticals lies a troublesome reality: manufacturing com...
117. MERCK KGAA plans to extend its technological leadership in materials for liquid crys...
118. BARRY SNYDER Barry Snyder has been appointed North American region business ma...
119. SHANE GREY Shane Grey has been named to the scientific advisory board of Combi...
120. Mapics Inc., a provider of enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and...
121. New Orleans barge spot ammonia pricing declined by roughly $20 per short ton over th...
122. Following a crushing second quarter, which saw as much as 50 percent of North Americ...
123. Darling International Inc., the largest publicly traded food processing by-products ...
124. TOTAL PLANS to resume production of melamine through a joint venture in Abu Dhabi wi...
125. Merck KGaA's subsidiary EMD Biosciences Inc. has acquired ProteoPlex Inc., a private...
126. IMCLONE SYSTEMS INC. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company have finally submitted a biolo...
127. A MASSIVE power outage that swept across seven states and Ontario, Canada, leaving m...
128. CV THERAPEUTICS Inc. reached an agreement with the FDA last week to cancel the revie...
129. NEARLY EIGHT months after hiring Banc of America Securities to explore strategic alt...
130. ROBERT M. MONSEN Robert M. Monsen has joined Altivia Corp. as vice president of...
131. MICHAEL CARLOS Michael Carlos has been appointed president of Givaudan fragranc...
132. Rhodia Inc. has renewed its contract with LRN, a legal knowledge company. LRN will p...
133. RESTRUCTURING is a major theme for surfactant manufacturers that supply the househol...
134. TRANSFORM Pharmaceuticals Inc. has, as part of its collaboration with Roche, made th...
135. Kao Corp. will invest [yen] 10 billion ($84 million) to build new facilities to manu...
136. Peter Mueller has been named chief financial officer and senior vice president of dr...
137. Mark Cross has been named group president and senior vice president at JohnsonDivers...
138. These chemical prices are list, unless otherwise specified. These listings are based...
139. Plastics & Coatings THE MARKET FOR polyethylene terephthalate (PET) could b...
140. APOTEX Corp. has received final Food and Drug Administration approval for its abbrev...
141. DEGUSSA AG has entered the ionic liquids market through its subsidiary Creavis Techn...
142. THE PHARMACEUTICAL industry is opposing legislation passed by the House of Represent...
143. COGNIS had a 7 percent decrease in sales to 1.5 billion [euro] ($1.7 billion) in the...
144. Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) has established a new Thoroughbred Bulk Transf...
145. Helsingborg, Sweden-based Kemira Kemi AB plans to adjust its operations in Sweden. K...
146. IN THE fierce proxy battle for control of Hercules Inc., Hercules management has eme...
147. PHILIP J. SCHULZ Philip J. Schulz has been elected to the board of directors of...
148. WILLIAM CLARK William Clark has been appointed cyanide code compliance manager ...
149. The Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX) has named Jeffrey Frayser, currently the ...
150. Demand for caustic soda has been lower than expected this summer, and pricing has de...
151. For the most part, July ethylene contracts have settled down 1.5 cent per pound to 2...
152. OLIVE OIL is savoring its increased popularity in the US household pourable oil mark...
153. INTENSE HEAT and drought in many parts of Europe are triggering cuts in chemical pro...
154. BOC is doubling its carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) capacity ha Thailand with a second p...
155. PLAGUED BY THE financial impact of its manufacturing deficiencies and suffering from...
156. THE US CHLORALKALI market appears to be languishing in the summer doldrums. Caustic ...
157. SOARING ENERGY costs continue to weigh heavily on the natural gas-dependent choline ...
158. TWO AND A HALF years after buying Kraton Polymers LLC from Shell Chemicals in a leve...
159. Gail P. Granoff Gail P. Granoff has been elected chief compliance and governanc...
160. John L. Hurst John L. Hurst has been elected executive vice president of Occid...
161. Aspen Technology Inc. and UOP LLC have agreed to market Aspen Refsys, a jointly deve...
162. FOOD PACKAGING remains one of polystyrene's largest and most dynamic end markets, ac...
163. OMEPRAZOLE Mylan Laboratories Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Mylan Pharma...
164. Fresh off a second quarter earnings disappointment, Millennium Chemicals Inc. has an...
165. Jane Metcalf has joined 3F Therapeutics Inc. as senior director of systems, quality ...
166. Scott Borst has been appointed business team leader, building and coatings, at Wacke...
167. Honeywell Industry Solutions and Sasol Germany GmbH Moers have signed a contract und...
168. DOWN UNDER MAY be closer to the pharmaceutical corridor than a map would suggest. Si...
169. TRANSKARYOTIC THERAPIES Inc. (TKT) has received European Commission approval for its...
170. DSM HAS negotiated another reduction in the price it is paying to takeover Roche's v...
171. International Specialty Products Inc. (ISP) has completed the acquisition of certain...
172. Schenectady International Inc. (SII) has completed the sale of its global electrical...
173. Clariant has established a research-based technology center at its Hoechst facilitie...
174. Despite troubles afflicting most of the line chemicals industry, Loures, Portugal-ba...
175. CHEMICAL INDUSTRY bellwether DuPont beat the Street with underlying earnings per sha...
176. RICHARD SANDERS Richard Sanders has been promoted to vice president of manufac...
177. RANDY J. BURNS Randy J. Burns will join Penford Corp. as vice president of ope...
178. Vastera Inc., a provider of trade management solutions, reports that Schenectady Int...
179. Ti[O.sub.2] pricing remains weak, in the mid-to high 80s (cents per pound). Analysts...
180. August contracts rolled over at 29 cents per pound. Butadiene is seeing a mixed fore...
181. IN AN EFFORT to stave off generic competition for its billion dollar-plus drug, Love...
182. MG TECHNOLOGIES is carrying out a thorough review of the future of both its chemical...
183. Acetex Corp. has declared force majeure following an unscheduled maintenance shutdow...
184. SEEKING TO expand in the US market, Akzo Nobel NV is investing $30 million to establ...
185. STEPHEN W. KALDOR Stephen W. Kaldor has been appointed president, chief scienti...
186. BTX Spot benzene pricing skyrocketed this week, reaching into the $1.60 per gallon r...
187. SENATE REPUBLICANS have agreed to abandon their stalled energy bill and resurrect an...
188. THOMAS KREUMMER Thomas Kreummer has been appointed vice president of the Far Ea...
189. Hercules Inc. will buy Italian-based polypropylene fiber company Meraklon SpA, which...
190. WAM Systems, a provider of supply chain planning solutions for the chemical industry...
191. Dow Chemical Company will increase all off-schedule prices for Tergito, Triton NPE a...
192. MALARIA GlaxoSmithKline PLC has received approval from the Medicines and Healthcare ...
193. IN A DEAL that establishes a strong platform in immunology, Genzyme Corp. will pay r...
194. LeRoy A. LeNarz has joined 3F Therapeutics Inc. as vice president of clinical affair...
195. William Sifleet has been promoted to fellow, R&D at Cabot Corp. The promotion re...
196. Contivo Inc., a provider of automated data integration capabilities, has launched Co...
197. CHIRAL QUEST, publicly traded since February, provided its first shareholder update ...
198. Carl Pelzel has been appointed senior vice president of BioPharma commercial operati...
199. Kenneth W. Bair has been appointed senior vice president, head of BioPharm research ...