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• BASF gears paper chemicals business toward growth markets

  With a view to future growth markets for paper chemicals and dyestuffs in China, Indonesia and India, BASF's Paper Chemicals division will reorganize its global business structures. The business in optical brighteners for paper is to be exited in Europe, and it is planned to close the corresponding more

• Copper: An element of surprise
  

  Edwin Constable and colleagues at the University of Basel, and at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in Switzerland, have synthesised carboxylate-derivatized copper complexes as dye stuffs for TiO2 dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The conversion of light to electricity is an important is more

• Bayer invests six million euros in Spanish facility

  Leverkusen - In the presence of the President of the Spanish principality of Asturias, Vicente Álvarez Areces, the Bayer Group officially launched a new unit for the manufacture of PHBS (p-hydroxybenzoic acid) at its site in La Felguera/Barcelona on September 20, 2002. PHBS is used to produce the an more