ICIS - Search Articles by Date : September 15 2003 - September 21 2003

New Projects Summary
As reported in ECN on 1, 8 and 15 September more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

News in brief
Utah candidate Jon Huntsman Jr has announced his candidacy in the 2004 Utah, US, governor's race, saying he seeks to make Utah an attractive.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

POPS Treaty Moving Forward
An international treaty banning the production and use of 16 hazardous pesticides and chemicals that persist in the environment will enter into more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Administration Is Besieged To Halt Its REACH Opposition
More than 70 activist groups are calling on the Bush administration to halt its wide-ranging lobbying campaign on behalf of the US chemical more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Global Chemical Industry Review: Ranking the Top 100 Companies
If the cheering died for chemicals in 2001 as we suggested last year in our September Company Analysis annual review of industry performance, in more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Lack of M&A Activity and Organic Growth Lead to Static North American Market
With the absence of significant mergers and acquisitions in the North American chemical industry, 2002 was a year where companies focused on more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Socma Adopts Revisions to Responsible Care
Members of the Synthetic Or-ganic Chemical Manufacturers As-sociation (Socma) last week adopted several key modifications to the Responsible Care more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Roche Expands Memory Pact
Roche has broadened its strategic alliance with Memory Pharmaceu-ticals Corp. for the development of central nervous system drug candidates to more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Hyosung to Invest $210 Million To Expand Its Spandex Operations
Hyosung plans to invest $210 million to increase its global capacity for spandex fiber by 50 percent over the next three years. The company will more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Specialties Pricing
Dow Chemical Company will be increasing the off-list prices for the following ethyleneamines products in the US and Canada, effective October 1: more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Boehringer Ingelheim Ups Biopharma Output
Boehringer Ingelheim expects to remain by far the world's biggest contract manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals over the next few years despite a more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Sabic Mulls Expansion
Sabic EuroPetrochemicals (EPC), the former DSM petrochemicals business acquired by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) two years ago, is more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Europe In Brief
SYNGENTA plans to cease trading its shares on the London and Stockholm stock exchanges by the end of this year. The company will remain listed on more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

R&D Is Critical for Specialty Chemicals Improvement
Research and development (R&D) resources need to be increased, and specialty chemical companies must become closer to end users to stay winners more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Watch
ALPHARMA Inc. has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for gabapentin, its generic version of Pfizer Inc.'s epilepsy drug Neurontin. more
(19 September 2003 21:49)

Market trends: Benzene down $70
Most aromatics are on a downward spiral again with styrene down about $50. Phenol, however, picks up with domestic prices in China up Rmb300 more
(19 September 2003 10:35)

Market trends: Propylene dips $30-35
Selling ideas range between $550 and $570. Meanwhile, demand for MTBE strengthens amid tight supply, with one cargo sold for $355/tonne fob Singapore more
(19 September 2003 10:34)

Chem-wire Express Japan
Chem-wire Express Japan: Edition of 15 September Basic and Fine Chemicals Teijin Chemicals has selected JGC Corporation as a contractor.... more
(16 September 2003 07:02)

Chem-wire Express Japan
Japan Chem-Wire Express: Edition of 16 September Basic and Fine Chemicals JSR Corp is about to establish a commissioned production.... more
(17 September 2003 04:51)

Chem-wire Express Japan
Japan Chem-wire Express: Edition of September 17   Basic and Fine Chemicals more
(18 September 2003 05:10)

Chem-wire Express Japan
Japan Chem-wire Express: Edition of 18 September Basic and Fine Chemicals Daicel Chemical Industries is scheduled to install a.... more
(19 September 2003 04:20)

Product profile: Vinyl acetate
Margins have continued to be squeezed at producers this year. Profitability has to improve to fund new investment which will be needed in two or.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

News in brief
Once for Elemica Elemica has become the latest member of the Open Network for Commerce Exchange (Once), the business-to-business alliance of.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

20 years ago
ECN 19 September 1983 more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

People on the move
Air Products Air Products has announced three new executive appointments. William Cantwell scoops up the newly created position of vice.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

News in brief
Sustainable agenda Senior government officials and representatives from non-governmental organisations from 27 countries met last week to.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

News in brief
Speedy synthesis Personal Chemistry of Uppsala, Sweden, and Fluorous Technology have entered a licence agreement which, they claim, will lead to.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

News in brief
Plant automation Amersham Health has awarded a contract worth $61m to Emerson Process Management to automate a new plant in Lindesnes, Norway..... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Players anticipate drop in Q4
As quarter four methanol contract talks get under way, the market is pointing towards a decrease from the quarter three contract of E225/tonne fob.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Market Trends: Shipping setbacks affect markets
Ethylene and propylene players experienced barge loading problems in the Ruhr area. This had a knock-on effect on cracker operating rates and stocks more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Diesel hydrotreater facility to be built by Technip
The Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) has awarded Technip a lumpsum turnkey contract for the installation of diesel hydrotreating facilities.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Melt and chip goes big in China
Inventa-Fischer will build China's largest polyester melt and chip plant for the Zhejiang Euro-Asia Film Material Co at a cost of SF80m (E51.5m/.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Dye firm divests to ease debt
Yorkshire Group has agreed to sell the customer lists and technical information of its US specialities division to Chemical Technologies (ChemTech).... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Euro rejection disappoints Eka
Swedish pulp and paper chemical manufacturer, Eka Chemicals, is disappointed but not worried at the country's decision not to join the euro more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

DuPont sets way for TiO2 price
DuPont took the lead last week with a E100/tonne price announcement on titanium dioxide (TiO2) for Europe effective 1 October more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

News in brief
Match that colour Ciba Specialty Chemicalshas a new colour matching system for inks, paints and plastics. It comprises Ciba's Colibri.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Clampdown on fuel sulphur
The European Union could introduce one or even a series of market-based measures to control air pollution from shipping more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

$2bn project is assessed
Pak Arab Refinery (Parco) and National Refinery Pakistan (NRL) have jointly commissioned a study into a $2bn petrochemical complex in Karachi,.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

MTP process progressed
Lurgi has pushed development of its methanol-to-propylene (MTP) process a step further by working with Borealis to produce polypropylene with output.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Feasibility study is set up
The government of Western Australia has commissioned a consortium led by Purvin & Gertz to conduct a feasibility study into setting up an.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Schering rationalises Japanese research sites
Schering will establish a research centre for regenerative medicine in Kobe, Japan, and is to rationalise its two existing Japanese research centres.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Basell develops catalyst series
Basell has developed a new series of ethylbenzoate catalysts for use in gas and liquid phase polypropylene production more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Ineos keeps it in-house
Ineos Chlor, the UK's major producer of chlor-alkali, is to use its own BiChlor bipolar membrane electrolysers for the recently announced upgrade of.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Russia shows fastest growth
Russia has become Europe's fastest growing flexible packaging market, with demand booming at 14%/year, according to a report from UK-based PCI Films.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

GTL methanol plan financed
GTL has awarded an engineering and procurement contract to Burrup Peninsula Gesellschaft fur Methanolan-lagen (BPGfM) for its proposed 1m tonne/year.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Novo Nordisk ups PenFill
Novo Nordisk is to invest E130m in the next three years to double its PenFill insulin cartridge production from 92m units this year to 180m in 2008.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

UCB to build monomer site
UCB plans to invest E25m in a new production facility for radcure monomers in St-Ghislain, Belgium, through its surface specialities unit more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Grant helps fund biodiesel plant
Biofuels has chosen Seal Sands in the Tees Valley, Middlesbrough, UK, as the site for its £25m (E40m/$35m) biodiesel complex more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Doha development is set back by WTO talks failure
The collapse of the World Trade Organisation's ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico, is a severe blow to the progress of the Doha Development Agenda more
(19 September 2003 15:12)

Cars parts recycling assessed
Feedstock recycling and energy recovery are the most eco-efficient methods for the recovery of plastics in end-of-life cars, in the majority of.... more
(19 September 2003 15:12)