Chemical
January 28, 2004
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., has sold its MDI (methylene-diphenylene isocyanatet) business to ITWC, a Malcolm, Iowa-based company that is a leading supplier of prepolymers, systems and equipment to the
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January 26, 2004
According to Reuters, U.S. and Texas law enforcement agencies are investigating the shooting of a security guard outside an ammonia terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast, a law enforcement official
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December 22, 2003
Dow Jones Business News reports that BASF AG sold its global soil treatment business to Kanesho Soil Treatment BVBA/SPRL, Brussels, Belgium, a subsidiary of Agro-Kanesho Co., Ltd., Japan, the company
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December 22, 2003
Reuters reports that Monsanto''s Canadian division will not ask an annual industry meeting in February to recommend its genetically modified wheat be registered in 2004, according to a company memo
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December 12, 2003
Dow Jones Business News reports that European Union regulators fined five companies a total of EUR70 million for fixing the prices of key industrial chemicals. Regulators concluded the companies had
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December 12, 2003
Dow Jones Business News reports that Eka Chemicals, Dutch coatings, chemical and drug company Akzo Nobel''s pulp and paper chemicals unit, will invest in a new plant for the production
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December 4, 2003
According to the Associated Press, chemicals maker Solutia Inc., is refusing to pay $3 million as part of a settlement of two asbestos lawsuits, arguing that its spinoff from Monsanto
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December 4, 2003
BASF has appointed Patrick M. Prevost as an Executive Vice President of BASF Corporation and as President of its chemicals businesses in North America, PRNewswire reports. He will be responsible
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November 3, 2003
According to Dow Jones Business News, Franco-German pharmaceuticals company Aventis SA said Monday that it has begun talks with the European Union Commission for more flexibility regarding the disposal of
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November 3, 2003
Dow Jones Business News reports that German chemical giant BASF said Friday that starting July 1, it will stop producing many of its polystyrene resin grades in Ludwigshafen, Germany as
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