ICIS - Search Articles by Date : May 17 2004 - May 23 2004

Degussa snaps up asset
Degussa has bought the Hungarian animal feed business Agroferm from Japanese food ingredients, pharmaceuticals and chemicals producer Kyowa Hakko. more
(18 May 2004 11:44)

Benzene rests at €566/tonne
May benzene contracts have settled at €566/tonne, a rollover from April pricing. more
(18 May 2004 11:49)

Majors join in refinery plan
Saudi Arabian Oil (Saudi Aramco) and Japan’s Sumitomo have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a refinery and petrochemical complex in.... more
(18 May 2004 11:49)

Shell holds land for growth
Additional land has been set aside by Shell Chemicals at its Nanhai site in Daya Bay, Huizhou in Guangdong, China, as a provision for future growth. more
(18 May 2004 11:49)

Cracker build schedule delayed
Shell Chemicals does not expect to have its third joint venture cracker in Singapore onstream before 2008 at the earliest, Tan Ek Kia, executive vice.... more
(18 May 2004 11:49)

Syngenta buys Advanta
Switzerland’s Syngenta is set to make significant gains in the US corn and soyabean market with an agreement to buy the Advanta seeds business.... more
(18 May 2004 11:49)

People on the move
Codexis Biocatalysis specialist Codexis has appointed Bernard Kelley to its board of directors. Kelly was president of the manufacturing.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

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(21 May 2004 08:16)

Fibres monitor: Summer breeze puts PTA in front
Fibres producers achieve hikes across most markets. PTA players breathe easier as sales volumes continue to look up with the start of the summer.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Environment in brief
POPs in force The Stockholm Convention, which targets 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs), was brought into force last week. Although the.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

UK report finds Reach an ‘acceptable alternative’
The UK government’s Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the European Commission’s proposals for Reach ‘are an acceptable alternative.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Artac global appeal to UN/EU
Following a seminar organised by the French Association for Research on Treatments Against Cancer (Artac), scientists and researchers have launched a.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Reach becomes election issue
Chemical Reaction, a project set up by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Greenpeace is encouraging Europe’s.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Coast of growth
Shell has created a major joint venture with CNOOC in China to build a worldclass international petrochemicals company. Some 20 000 workers enter the.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Finding funding
When a venture capitalist is considering putting money into your bright idea a number of key criteria must be met, not least of which is having the.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Logistics in brief
Additives deal Univar has entered into an agreement with Lehvoss UK to expand the UK market for the Lovitix range of products from Lehmann.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Aker Aukra in tanker deal
Aker Aukra subsidiary Aker Yards is to construct a 16 000dwt chemical/product tanker for Norwegian chemical tanker company Fleischer, through Nina.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

MG finalises division disposal
MG Technologies is completing the disposal of its chemicals division through the sale of its Solvadis distribution business to Chemdis, a subsidiary.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

EU wants payback
The European Union has demanded the reimbursement of €308.3m in illegal aid subsidies handed to Spain’s state-backed IZAR shipyards more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Zeppelin led by expansion
Zeppelin Silo- und Apparate­technik of Friedrichshafen in Germany has announced it is to acquire Motan Materials Handling of Weingarten, Germany more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Pidec’s past successes breed future Iran contracts
Iran’s Petrochemical Industries Design & Engineering Com­pany (Pidec) has been awarded several contracts for major projects in Assaluyeh more
(21 May 2004 10:28)

BP invests $1bn in China
BP has signed a number of agreements in China covering investments totalling around $1bn more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Expansion: Ticona
Ticona has brought forward plans to expand its liquid crystal polymer (LCP) capacity in Shelby, North Carolina, US, because of an increase in global.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Markets in brief
Gel coat hiked Cook Composites and Polymers has announced a 5 cent/lb price increase on its gel coat products and a 4 cent/lb increase on its.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

US crackers may switch to a lighter feedslate
US cracker operators confirm they are seriously considering switching to a lighter feed-slate in their flexible crackers, if crude oil and naphtha.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Silica market set to expand
Global markets for precipitated silica and sodium aluminium silicates are expected to grow at 4%/year more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Market trends: Benzene demand remains healthy
Market is still tight for benzene and toluene has held on the back of this despite subdued trading. Propylene and paraxylene prices have softened.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

New projects in brief
Polish contractor Basell Orlen Polyolefins (BOP) has appointed Polimex-Cekop as its primary subcontractor for its manufacturing sites in.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Akzo starts work on coatings plant
Akzo Nobel has started constructing a decorative coatings plant at the Amata Industrial Park, Vietnam more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

SNPE licenses Raschig process
SNPE’s fine chemicals affiliate Isochem will license Raschig, its alkylated hydrazines process, to SpaceChem LLC for the construction of a biofuels.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Fluor to build chlor-alkali plant for Ineos Chlor
Fluor has been awarded a front-end engineering and design contract by Ineos Chlor for a new chlor-alkali plant to be built in Runcorn, Cheshire, UK more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

hdPE contract won by Uhde
Uhde has been awarded a contract by PetroChina to design a 300 000 tonne/year high density polyethylene plant in Beijing, China more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

EU lifts GM corn six-year freeze
The European Commission has given approval to a genetically modified sweetcorn (Bt-11) for food use in the EU more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Obesity drug R&D
Solvay has signed up Bristol-Myers Squibb to help it develop and commercialise its novel CB1 antagonist compound SLV319 globally more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Tapping old cures
Hybrigenics of France has signed a collaboration agreement with Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (Simm), part of the Chinese Academy of Science more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Ilika born to screen
Graeme Purdy, former chief operating officer of Avantium Technologies, is heading a new combinatorial chemistry startup, Ilika, recently spun off.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

EC minds the gap
In a bid to ensure that the emerging gap between the US and Europe in nanotechnology does not widen, the European Commission has set out a series of.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

VTT/VIB collaborate
VTT Biotechnology and Flander Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) have developed a method for producing plant-derived compounds in cell.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Rhodia net debt rises further
Rhodia’s heavy debt burden and higher interest expenses are continuing to take their toll on the troubled French chemicals group more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Ercros completes site sale
Spanish chemicals group Ercros has sold the second half of its former production site in El Hondon, Cartagena, Spain, to Construcciones Reyal for €39m more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Industry pay rise agreed
Despite initial tough talks, Germany’s chemical employers and employees have settled quickly on a new collective pay agreement more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

BASF says no to outsourcing
BASF has no plans to sell or outsource any of its low margin plastics activities more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

UCB clinches deal for ?biopharma big league slot
Belgian chemicals and pharmaceuticals group UCB has agreed a cash bid worth around £1.53bn (€2.25bn/$2.69bn) for UK biotechnology company Celltech more
(21 May 2004 10:28)

Cognis disposes of PVC arm
Cognis, the oleochemicals business formerly owned by German household products and chemicals company Henkel, has sold its non-core PVC stabilisers.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Shareholders okay Garnier pay
GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier has had his pay package approved by shareholders at the UK drug group’s annual general.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

US Huntsman plans a move
Huntsman’s chemicals group is planning to move about 250 personnel from operations offices in Houston, Texas, US, to leased office space 25 miles.... more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Shell cracker to be heart of major industrial park
The Shell/CNOOC Daya Bay cracker complex will form the kernel of a major petrochemicals industrial park, if the local municipality of Huizhou sees.... more
(21 May 2004 10:28)

PP plant may be ready in 2006
Brazilian groups Braskem and Petrobras could bring their joint venture polypropylene (PP) project in São Paulo state onstream at the end of 2006 more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Univation to license Unipol to PetroChina
US technology company, Univation, has signed licence agreements with PetroChina for its Unipol polyethylene technology more
(21 May 2004 08:16)

Caustic soda demand breaks ten-year record
European caustic soda consumption reached its highest level for ten years during quarter one (Q1), with demand 4.5% higher than the same period in.... more
(21 May 2004 10:28)