Chemical Industry Celebrates Innovation of 2002 Nobel Prize Winners

New Revolutionary Chemical Methods Vital to Developing Pharmaceuticals, Food Processing Methods and Diagnosing Cancers

24-Oct-2002 - The chemical industry congratulates the 2002 recipients of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their seminal work in developing powerful new analytical methods for studying biological "big molecules," or macromolecules, such as proteins in and out of their natural environment. These breakthroughs ...

Crompton's Third Quarter Earnings Significantly Exceed Prior Year

23-Oct-2002 - Crompton Corporation reported today third quarter earnings before special items of $17.2 million, or 15 cents per share, significantly exceeding the breakeven in the third quarter of 2001 and equaling the First Call consensus. Special items for the quarter included an after-tax charge of $4.6 ...

Great Lakes Increases Price for Lowinox 22M46 Antioxidant

23-Oct-2002 - Great Lakes Chemical Corporation announced a worldwide price increase of 10% for Lowinox® 22M46 hindered phenolic antioxidant, effective November 1, 2002, where contracts allow. Lowinox® 22M46 is used primarily in POM (polyoxymethylene) and ABS (acrylnitril-butadiene-styrol) applications that ...

Innovative AspenTech Solution Delivers New Levels of Manufacturing Performance to Polymers Industry

23-Oct-2002 - Aspen Technology, Inc. announced a breakthrough in advanced process control technology that enables polymer manufacturers to achieve significant improvements in manufacturing performance. The unique, patented technology has already been successfully implemented at the polyethylene plant operated ...

CareX and Chemical Diversity Labs announce research agreement

23-Oct-2002 - French biopharmaceutical company CareX S.A. and San Diego based Chemical Diversity Labs, Inc. announced that they have formed a research collaboration that applies methods of rational drug design to Focused Library Screening of bio-active substances. Under the terms of the agreement, Chemical ...

Free Brochure from Dow Makes Chemistry Cool for Kids

Eight Experiments Help Educators Teach Science and Chemistry FUN-damentals

23-Oct-2002 - How can soap move a boat? Why does hot water crumble a carton of milk? These and other quirky questions are answered in the new "Chemistry: The Enabling Science," a free brochure from The Dow Chemical Company. Dow is introducing the new brochure as part of its sponsorship of National Chemistry ...

ChevronTexaco Worldwide Power and Sinopec Corp. announce agreement on technology license

22-Oct-2002 - ChevronTexaco Worldwide Power and Gasification and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) announced that ChevronTexaco proprietary gasification technology has been licensed for use at the Sinopec naphtha steam reformer plant in Jinling, China. Revamping the Jinling plant with ...

PolymerAdditives.com Celebrates Its 2nd Anniversary

22-Oct-2002 - Just two years ago on October 16, 2000 PolymerAdditives.com was launched with to goal of becoming the broadest source for polymer additives. Albemarle Corporation, Cytec Industries and GE Specialty Chemicals created PolymerAdditives.com, a comprehensive resource for polymer additives. This year ...

ICO Polymers signs agreement with Ciba Specialty Chemicals

21-Oct-2002 - ICO Polymers, Inc., a wholly- owned subsidiary of ICO, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICOC) , recently signed a supply and cooperation agreement with Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc. for joint development of a new range of speciality additive packages for rotomolding applications. "This month ICO begins producing ...

Neolytica To Deliver Nautilus LIMS Via ASP Architecture

21-Oct-2002 - Neolytica, a single point of contact for outsourcing and contracting analytical testing services, has formally signed an agreement with Thermo LabSystems, a Thermo Electron business, to offer the Nautilus(TM) LIMS solution to customers using the application service provision (ASP) model. With ...