ICIS - Search Articles by Date : August 26 2002 - September 01 2002

News in brief
Platform simplified Omnexus has simplified its transaction platform. The company says it now boasts a three-step ordering process and change.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

End-of-season sale
Arch is selling Hickson & Welch, two years after acquiring the fine chemicals unit, in order to focus on its core businesses. After several strategic.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Corporate Governance: A Value Proposition Institutional Investors' Role in Reform
The second part of a two-part series on corporate governance. more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Chemical Plants Vulnerable to Conventional Attacks
Terrorists could turn chemical plants and refineries into weapons of mass destruction by using easily attainable conventional firearms such as a more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Shell Agrees to Penalty
Shell Chemical LP has agreed to pay $135,900 in penalties for failing to implement standards that protect workers against hazardous chemicals in more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Lignosulfonates Market Growing Slowly in Midst Of Dramatic Transformation
The March 2001 closure of Georgia-Pacific's Bellingham, Wash., lignosulfate (LS) plant has had major repercussions in a slow-growth market that more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Dow Puts TDI on Order Control in North America and the Pacific
Dow Chemical Company is putting its supply of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) in North America and the Pacific on order control until further notice. more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Vertec Biosolvents on Verge of Breaking Out With New Replacement Applications
Just four years out of the gate and with the backing of private venture capital firm Spencer Trask Specialty Group, Chicago-based Vertec more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Watch
APOTEX Corp. moved closer to marketing a generic version of Abbott Laboratories bipolar disorder drug Depakote more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Specialties Pricing
COGNIS CORP.'s polymer building blocks division will be, as of September 1, increasing the off-list prices of all grades of regular dimer acids more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Oils, Fats & Waxes in Brief
DESERT WHALE JOJOBA Company Inc. has expanded its market coverage in Europe more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Custom Manufacturing in Brief
ORGANICHEM has initiated the construction of a second new manufacturing suite for the manufacture of commercial quanitities of high-potency active.... more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Inorganics in Brief
CAUSTIC SODA Dow Chemical Company is raising its off-list selling prices for all grades of caustic soda more
(30 August 2002 21:06)

Japan proposes emission rights trading
The Japanese government plans to fund a carbon dioxide (CO2) emission-rights trading experiment next year more
(30 August 2002 16:48)

Pla-Net in search of fourth partner
Pla-Net Holdings, the holding company formed by the merger of the plastics businesses of Nissho Iwai, Nichimen and Chori last year, is in talks with.... more
(30 August 2002 16:50)

Profit ability?
The potential for margins to stabilise at a higher level in the European PET industry could depend as much on marketing tactics as on the overall.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

News in brief
MMA supply Rohm and Haas has temporarily reduced supplies of methyl methacrylate (MMA) from its Deer Park, Texas, facility in the.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Custom made
Customs and Excise is responsible for collecting a range of duties and taxes from the chemical industry in the UK. Customs' UK chemical sector.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Product profile: Propylene glycol
European suppliers are struggling to recover margins in a market with excess capacity and slow demand. New investment is planned in the growing.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

EPS market sees firm recovery
Expandable polystyrene producers in Europe pushed prices up significantly during the first half of the year, by virtue of measures taken to.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

News in brief
Report launched The International Finance Corporation, Sustainability and the Ethos Institute, has launched a report looking at the business.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

The time to invest is now
What is the real, underlying, message of recent stock market upheavals, which have already caused a 40% drop in combined US market capitalisation.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Plastics monitor: Prices lose ground in quiet August
Polymer prices began to fall during August and producers have accepted some discounts in a bid to retain volumes more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

New project summary
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(30 August 2002 17:50)

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(30 August 2002 17:50)

People on the move
Avecia and Dow Chemical Nick Hyde, formerly responsible for Avecia's pharmaceutical business unit, has left to become business director,.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Bayer updates ordering portal
Bayer has revamped its coatings and colourants portal more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Life-sciences site gains funding
Science Warehouse, the UK-based e-marketplace for the life-science industry has secured additional funding to take it through to profitability more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Omnexus extends link
Omnexus has expanded its Surplus centre into Europe to connect its processors with sellers of excess plastics material more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

FDA aims to improve regulation
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is undertaking an initiative to enhance the regulation of pharmaceutical manufacturing and product quality more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Xiameter website is seen as model for business
Xiameter is looking at providing its no-frills cash and carry website concept to other companies more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Great Lakes to sell off division
Great Lakes is to exit the fine chemicals business to focus on leveraging its core businesses towards higher growth and higher margin products more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Pfizer/Atrix develop bone growth drug
Pfizer has submitted an investigational new drug application for a novel bone growth product, which uses Atrix Laboratories' proprietary Atrigel drug.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

News in brief
Drug withdrawn Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co has decided to give up the acquisition of approval of its drug YM175 (incadronate disodium) for.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Bayer seeks drug approval
Bayer Healthcare Division Biological Products has submitted its next generation immune globulin intravenous (IGIV) product Gamunex for regulatory.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Shaky start to UN summit as Bush boycotts talks
The UN world summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg, South Africa, got off to a stumbling start last week with stakeholders remaining.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Alliance critical of green group
Scientists have warned that a purely environmental focus at the Johannesburg summit will risk increasing the suffering of billions of people living.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Market leader pushes for revision of pricing levels
Converters are in denial on where European hdPE prices need to be, claims Robin McGill, chief executive of BP Solvay more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

News in brief
Capacity increase Ticona has expanded North American compounding capacity at its plants in Shelby, North Carolina and Florence Kentucky,.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Growing demand prompts new Czech production line
Growing demand for acrylic and styrene acrylic emulsions has prompted Eastman Chemical Company to begin pre-engineering work for a further styrene.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

US invests in fertiliser complex study
The US Trade and Development Agency has signed an agreement with the Akwa Ibom Investment and Industrial Council to partially fund a feasibility.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Cognis extends unit
Cognis is set to expand the production of surfactants at its plant in Kankakee more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Sud-Chemie: lower profits
Sud-Chemie is warning that full year group operating profit will fall from 40% above last year's figure of E27.8m ($26.9m) to between 30% and 40% more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

TEC lands contracts
The BASF-YPC joint venture (jv) has awarded Japan's Toyo Engineering Corporation (TEC) two contracts for the detailed design, procurement and.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

New company to build LAB plant in Dubai
New player in the United Arab Emirates petrochemical sector, Emalab, is planning to build a 30 000 tonne/year linear alkyl benzene (LAB) facility in.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Biotech group appeals for state support
Germany's biotechnology industry association, DIB, has underscored its dissatisfaction with state support for companies working with recombinant.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

PTA partnership
Eastman Chemical has expanded its alliance with Lurgi Oel Gas Chemie for the licensing of Eastman's proprietary terephthalic acid (EPTA) technology.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Sika creates subsidiary companies
Speciality chemical company Sika has formed two subsidiary companies to refocus and concentrate long-term research projects in selected fields of.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Report highlights GM safety fears
The possibility that genetically engineered animals could escape and introduce engineered genes into wild populations tops the list of concerns.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Values bounce back following months of low spot activity
Black Sea ammonia prices are on the rebound after months of depressed spot activity kept them in the low to mid-$90s/ tonne fob Yuzhnyy more
(30 August 2002 17:50)