Efficient Filters Produced from Carbon Nanotubes

13-Aug-2004 - TROY, N.Y. - Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Banaras Hindu University (India) have devised a simple method to produce carbon nanotube filters that efficiently remove micro- to nano-scale contaminants from water and heavy hydrocarbons from petroleum. Made entirely of carbon ...

BASF Coatings becomes system supplier for FAW-VW in Changchun

Successful in the China growth market

13-Aug-2004 - Changchun/Muenster. BASF Coatings is a new system supplier in Changchun, China: Effective September 2004, BASF Coatings will be the leading supplier for all four paint coats-e-coat, primer, basecoat, and clearcoat-for the new Car Plant II of FAW-VW, the joint venture between the FAW Group and the ...

Schering sells Jenapharm's therapeutics business to Dermapharm AG

13-Aug-2004 - Schering AG, Germany (FSE: SCH, NYSE: SHR) announced today that its German subsidiary Jenapharm GmbH & Co. KG, Jena, has agreed the sale of its therapeutics business to mibe Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH (i.G.), Jena, a subsidiary of Dermapharm AG, Grünwald. The sale of Jenapharm GmbH & Co. KG's ...

Kemira sells calcium chloride business to TETRA Technologies, Inc.

13-Aug-2004 - Kemira has signed an agreement on the sale of its calcium chloride business to the American TETRA Technologies, Inc. The Group's annual net sales in calcium chloride total approx. EUR 50 million. The deal is conditional and subject to e.g. further approval by authorities. Kemira will strengthen ...

Eka Chemicals to Build and Operate "Chemical Island" in Brazil

11-Aug-2004 - Eka Chemicals, Akzo Nobel's pulp and paper chemicals business unit, has secured a 15 year supply agreement for the delivery of chemicals to the new Veracel pulp mill at Eunápolis in the state of Bahia, Brazil, jointly owned by Aracruz Celulose S.A. and Stora Enso Oyj. On completion in May 2005, ...

Acquisition of DyStar by Platinum Equity completed

BASF, Bayer and Hoechst divest their holdings

09-Aug-2004 - The acquisition of the Frankfurt-based manufacturer of textile dyes DyStar by the international financial investor Platinum Equity, Los Angeles, California, was completed on August 5, 2004. The relevant antitrust authorities have approved the transaction. As a result, BASF, Bayer and Hoechst have ...

Rockwood Specialties Completes Acquisition of Four Dynamit Nobel Businesses To Form New Global Specialty Chemical Group

09-Aug-2004 - Specialties Group, Inc., Princeton (NJ), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of four businesses of Dynamit Nobel, Troisdorf (Germany), to form a new specialty chemicals and advanced materials group with pro forma combined revenue of approximately $2.5 billion in 2003. To create ...

Rhodia finalizes the sale of its potable and waste water treatment business to Feralco

09-Aug-2004 - Following the letter of intent signed with Feralco May 25, Rhodia today announced that it has finalized the sale of its potable and waste water treatment business. Mainly targeting the European market, this business includes aluminium salts and polyaluminum chloride products, used primarily in ...

SGL Polycarbon named "Supplier of the Year 2004"

06-Aug-2004 - SGL Technic Polycarbon Division, an affiliate of the German based SGL Carbon Group (NYSE: SGG), announced today that it has been awarded "Supplier of the Year" designation by Federal-Mogul Corporation. This is the second consecutive year that SGL Polycarbon has earned this prestigious honor. The ...

BASF concerned about the effects of high benzene prices on demand for plastics

Business to be turned down if necessary

06-Aug-2004 - BASF will have to continue to raise the prices for its styrene-based and nylon products because of the continuously increasing price of benzene. If it is not possible to achieve these prices in the market and thus pass on the enormous increase in the cost of benzene to customers, then the ...