ICIS - Search Articles by Date : February 21 2005 - February 27 2005

Consumer Specialties Corner
Tate & Lyle’s New Venture Fund more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Financial in Brief
Rohm and Haas Company is calling $400 million in 7.4 percent US notes scheduled to mature in 2009. The debt paydown will be funded with cash.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

After Successful IPO, Huntsman Stock Rises
Wall Street initiates coverage. more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Recent Shifts Among Vitamin Manufacturers Create New World Order of Fierce Competition
With the 2003 acquisition of Roche’s vitamins unit by DSM Nutritional Products and the 2001 acquisition of Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd.’s vitamins.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Huber Leverages Tableting and Oral Formulation Technologies
Huber Engineered Materials, part of J. M. Huber Corp., is leveraging its technology in final dosage forms to sharpen its competitive edge in the.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Tax Cuts for Soda Ash Industry Reintroduced
Wyoming lawmakers have reintroduced legislation in Congress that they first proposed a year ago to cut taxes on trona production and protect jobs in.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Ashland Unveils Ultrasonic Water Treatment
Over the last decade, there has been a growing market need to lower the environmental impact of industrial water treatment systems by reducing the.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Specialties Pricing
Ciba Specialty Chemicals’ water and paper treatment segment increased global prices for its products by 15 percent on February 18. Increases will be.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Inorganics in Brief
Air Products Effective March 15, Air Products will institute a surcharge of 30c. per 1,000 standard cubic feet on liquid/bulk oxygen, nitrogen and.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Harvest Estimates Suggest Weak Fertilizer Outlook
The most recent government projections of record harvest estimates in the US and globally for the 2004-05 crop year could mean bad news for.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Kerr-McGee Mulls Sale of Chemicals
Kerr-McGee Corp. is mulling the sale of its $1.3 billion chemicals unit, which is the third-largest titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer in the world,.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Amgen Has Letdown with GDNF
Coming down from a successful year and final quarter in 2004, biotech leader Amgen Inc. has had a turn of disappointing news with the announcement.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Life Sciences in Brief
aphton Corp. announced that its product candidate Insegia (G17DT immunogen) did not meet the primary endpoint of a Phase III clinical study in.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Biovail Expands Capacity of Largest Manufacturing Plant
Biovail Corp. is expanding its largest manufacturing facility, located in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. The company says the $27.6 million project is.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Europe in Brief
CRODA International’s oleochemicals operation, which accounts for over 90 percent of its sales, achieved a record trading margin of almost 18 percent.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

EU to Restrict Several Chemicals
By an overwhelming majority, the European Parliament has backed a plan that favors restrictions on numerous chemicals, including phthalates,.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Ciba Aims for Price Hikes in Water and Paper Chems
Ciba Specialty Chemicals is pressing for a general increase of up to 15 percent in the prices of its water and paper chemicals, which it says are the.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Lenzing’s Tencel Takeover to Proceed
Lenzing’s takeover of Tencel, its rival in the global market for lyocell cellulose fiber, has been blocked by Austria’s Supreme Court on competition.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Conductive Polymers to Grow
The Development of conductive polymers has been advancing more slowly than expected in Europe in recent years. Now there are signs that the polymers.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Merck’s Liquid Crystals Business Sparkles
Merck KGaA’s liquid crystals operation achieved returns of over 50 percent last year, making it by far the most profitable business within the German.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Solvay Ups Soda Ash Margins
Solvay expects the effects of re-structuring and higher prices to help re-store its margins in soda ash, a business in which it is the European.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Omega-3 Output Expanding As Consumer Demand Rises
US demand for omega-3 fatty acids continues to build up, spurred by positive publicity on its health benefits and the Food and Drug Administration’s.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Oils, Fats & Waxes in Brief
Aarhus United A/S announced that its main shareholder, United International Enterprises Ltd. is extending the period given for its sale of Aarhus.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Late Spot Prices
LATE?SPOT?PRICES *All prices are on a spot cash basis. CRUDE VEGETABLE OILS* Coconut oil, t.l., N.Y. lb. 31c Corn oil, Midwest .... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

Jobs and People
John L. Bakos more
(25 February 2005 20:28)

EPA Clarifies Pesticide Rule
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says pesticide applicators do not need to obtain additional permits under the Clean Water Act when they.... more
(25 February 2005 20:28)