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Judge Orders Dow Chemical to Pay $1.2 Billion in Price-Fixing Case

16.05.2013 - A federal judge in Kansas City, Kansas, ordered Dow Chemical on Wednesday to pay $1.2 billion in a price-fixing case involving chemicals used to make foam products in cars...

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BASF to Sell Industrial Water Management to Degrémont

15.05.2013 - BASF has signed a contract to sell its subsidiary Industrial Water Management France based in Lyon, France to Degrémont, the world water treatment specialist for local authorities...

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Momentive Specialty Chemicals Announces First Quarter 2013 Results

14.05.2013 - Momentive Specialty Chemicals today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Results for the first quarter of 2013 include: Revenues of $1.2 billion versus $1...

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Aesica Enters Research Collaboration with University of Nottingham

14.05.2013 - Aesica, the global contract manufacturing organisation (CMO), announces a partnership with the University of Nottingham for the commercial development of alternative methods in...

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Boosting Global Expansion

13.05.2013 - Business - Shell Chemicals held a ground-breaking ceremony last month for the building of facilities for making high-purity ethylene oxide (HPEO) and ethoxylates at its site in...

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Prices, Royalties Concerns Cloud Israel Chemicals Profit

13.05.2013 - Israel Chemicals (ICL)'s forecast-beating first-quarter profits were overshadowed by worries about potash prices on Monday, and a government proposal to examine state royalties on...

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Asian Petrochemical Firms Risk High-end Chemicals Deluge

13.05.2013 - Petrochemical firms risk creating a glut of high-end products in Asia as they invest billions of dollars to move up a value chain threatened at the bottom end by cheap U.S...

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Bayer's Plastics Chief Sees Room to Raise Prices

10.05.2013 - Bayer suggested there was room to lift prices at its high-tech plastics and chemicals business this year to counter soaring raw material costs that squeezed first quarter margins...