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

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)

Styrene Pricing on Upward Spiral
Rising feedstock costs and supply outages are pushing styrene pricing sky-high. How long the increases hold depends on the return of supply and the more
(30 August 2002 17:39)

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)

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
Reported in ecn ON 19 August more
(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)

Unipetrol deal in trouble as Agrofert refuses to pay
Agrofert is refusing to pay full price for its purchase of a 63% stake in Unipetrol because it says conditions at the country's main petrochemical.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

MG/Baoding ink deal
MG subsidiary Zimmer has signed a technology licence agreement with Chinese company Baoding Swan Chemical Fibre Group for the production of Lyocell.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Focus now on small deals
Dow Corning is looking to make several small acquisitions to grow its core ventures while it waits to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which it.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Clean-up begins
The Czech Republic's chemical industry has begun amassive clean-up operation after last month's flooding and is beginning to count the cost in lost.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

ICI/Linde develop cleaning fluid
As part of an ongoing agreement to develop 'densified CO2 cleaning technology' more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

MG chief dismisses sale of Dynamit
MG Technologies has no plans to sell chemicals subsidiary Dynamit Nobel (DN), chairman Kajo Neukirchen has told a financial press conference in.... more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Chief sacked following 'lies' about leaks
The head of Czech plastics company Spolana has been sacked, following a public row over chlorine leaks from its flooded PVC plant more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Akzo Nobel buys Jouanne
Akzo Nobel has bought French paint distributor Jouanne more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

DSM goes ahead with jv
DSM signed an agreement with China's Sinopec last month to start its caprolactam joint venture which has been under proposal since 1997 more
(30 August 2002 17:50)

Production cuts may mean higher prices later this year
PVC markets in eastern Europe have experienced severe production cuts in the past few months more
(30 August 2002 17:50)