- Meadwestvaco creates Chinese
venture.
The Specialty Chemicals Division of MeadWestvaco, Charleston, SC, has announced plans to form a manufacturing and marketing joint venture with Fujian Shaxian Songchuan Chemical Industry (SSCI) in China. To be known as MWV (Shaxian) Pine Chemicals Company Limited, the venture will expand SSCI's output of crude tall oil derivatives in ......
- MeadWestvaco forms joint venture in
China.
MeadWestvaco's Speciality Chemical's Division will be forming a manufacturing and marketing joint venture company with Fujian Shaxian Songchuan Chemical Industry (SSCI). The joint venture will expand SSCI's current output of tall oil derivatives primarily for sale in the Chinese and Asia Pacific markets and will be known as MWV (Shaxian) ......
- Healthy, wealthy and wise.
Chemical companies play a key role in the economy, but Yvonne Brown knows regulators will ensure money does not come before the environment. The chemical industry has made good progress in reducing emissions from chemical plants and the energy they use. But, the current lack of safety data on chemicals ......
- Nonpharmas pick up, but cost, capacity issues remain
Business on the nonpharmaceutical side of custom chemical manufacturing has perked up over the past year. The previously lackluster agricultural chemicals market, for example, is showing new life, as are specialty monomers and polymers, and polymer additives. But soaring energy and raw materials costs, overcapacity and competition from Asia are ......
- Innovation in the industry: we introduce two parts to
innovation in the industry. A theoretical insight is given on the left
page, with a practical example from Thai major TOA Paints on the
right.
Everybody talks about innovation as the key to growth in the chemical industry but at the same time, ironically, the world claims that there have been no great innovations-not one new dyestuff has been invented since the fifties. Certainly innovation seen in the telecom industry like hand phones where new ......
- Instrument sales strong despite rising business
costs.
Chemicals Weak European demand, coupled with US economic woes and decreases in world trade, will continue to restrain chemical industry growth, reports the European Chemistry Industry Council (Cefic). According to midyear 2003 forecasts, Cefic estimated that the EU chemical industry grew only 0.7% last year and is set to grow ......
- EU.
EU: The European Chemical Industry Council's (Cefic) spring economic outlook predicts that EU chemical industry production, excluding pharmaceuticals, will grow 2.7% in 2007, up from 2.1% growth in 2006. In general, high oil prices had less of an effect on the chemical industry than expected and the year started well, ......