Chemical Week

1. Ashland to sell food, Pharma ingredients to Mitsubishi.(business & finance...
Ashland says it has signed an agreement to sell Ashland Distribution's ingestibles business, which includes food and beverage additives and pharmaceutical actives and excipients, to ...
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2. Electronic chemical profits on the rise.(business & finance news)(Brief...
Most electronic chemical makers reported strong second-quarter results, with improvements in both earnings and sales. Producers have been somewhat successful at passing along price hikes, ...
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3. Akzo restructures "to fix" pharmaceuticals.(Europe/Mideast)
Akzo Nobel says it plans to "integrate" Diosynth, Akzo's pharmaceutical intermediates business, with Organon, Akzo's human health care business, in a further bid to improve ...
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4. Bayer's earnings exceed expectations.(Europe/Mideast)
Bayer reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) but disappointing net profits. Ebit before special items increased 44%, to 660 million [euro] ($803 ...
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5. Dow reviews sites in China for major petchem complex.(Asia/Pacific)(Dow...
Dow Chemical is reviewing sites and potential partners in China for a petrochemical complex, with capacity for up to 1 million m.t./year of ethylene, the ...
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6. Korea imposes fines on China.(business & finance news)(Korean Trade...
The Korean Trade Commission (KTC; Seoul) says it has asked the country's finance ministry to impose preliminary antidumping duties on imports of anatase titanium dioxide ...
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7. BASF, Dow advance on direct route to PO ...(new construction projects)(BASF...
BASF and Dow Chemical say they are ready to commercialize a previously announced jointly developed hydrogen peroxide-to-propylene oxide (HPPO) technology (CW, Aug. 13, 2003, p.
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8. ... BASF plans world-scale specialty PU plant at Shanghai.(new construction...
BASF says it plans to build a specialty polyurethanes (PU) complex in the district of Pudong, Shanghai. Construction of the complex is due to begin ...
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9. Indian firm to diversify into Pharma intermediates.(new construction...
Specialty chemicals conglomerate SRF (New Delhi) says it plans to diversify into pharmaceutical intermediates with construction of two production plants in India. SRF will build ...
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10. Saudi Methanol startup runs ahead of schedule.(new construction...
International Methanol Co. (IMC; Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia) plans to start up a previously announced 1-million m.t./year methanol plant at Al Jubail by the end ...
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