Aventis Behring Makes Significant Investments to Expand Manufacturing Capabilities

Aventis Behring plans to invest more than $65 million to enhance manufacturing technology and product availability

05-Aug-2002 - King of Prussia, PA, - Aventis Behring L.L.C. announced today the approval of a $14.5 million USD investment to upgrade its basic fractionation facilities in Marburg, Germany and begin design plans for a new basic fractionation facility. This investment will fund the first two phases of ...

Eastman Increases Selected List and Off-List Acrylic-Based Coatings Raw Material Prices

05-Aug-2002 - KINGSPORT, Tenn. (July 31, 2002) - Eastman Chemical Company today announced an increase in list and off-list pricing on acrylic latex emulsions, styrene acrylic latex emulsions, and solution acrylic resins for the coatings industry. The increases will be effective September 1, 2002 or as ...

NOVA Chemicals and BASF Improve Position in Styrene Monomer

05-Aug-2002 - PITTSBURGH & MT. OLIVE, N.J. Aug. 2, 2002 NOVA Chemicals Corporation and BASF Corporation have signed a long-term styrene monomer supply contract. The agreement commits NOVA Chemicals to supply monomer feedstock to BASF's downstream styrenics business in the NAFTA region. In addition, the ...

MDL Available Chemicals Directory Adopts Quarterly Release

05-Aug-2002 - SAN LEANDRO, Calif - Aug. 1, 2002 - MDL Information Systems, Inc. (MDL), the leader in discovery informatics for chemistry and the life sciences, has announced that its electronic directory of chemical supplier information, MDL(R) Available Chemicals Directory, will be issued quarterly beginning ...

Dow and BASF to Pursue Joint Development of Process Technology for Propylene Oxide

05-Aug-2002 - MIDLAND, Mich., Aug. 1 - The Dow Chemical Company and BASF announced today plans to join forces in the development of technology for the manufacture of propylene oxide (PO) utilizing hydrogen peroxide (HP) as a key raw material. Both companies have significant patent portfolios as well as ...

New Lubrication Management Software from Dow Corning Helps Reduce Cost & Time

02-Aug-2002 - MIDLAND, MICH (Aug. 1, 2002) - A new software solution that allows for complete automation of the lubrication management process is now available from Dow Corning as support for its Molykote® Lubrication Management Program. The company says that SurveyViewTM and Lube-ItTM lubrication management ...

BOC purchases rights for innovative heat treatment processes

02-Aug-2002 - Guildford, UK, July 29, 2002 - BOC's Controlled Atmospheres Technologies (CAT) group has purchased the overseas intellectual property rights for ferric and austenitic nitrocarburising processes from Huyton Heat Treatments. Huyton Heat Treatments, based in Liverpool, has been developing innovative ...

Metrohm-Peak Chooses ACCPAC Web-Based Accounting and CRM

02-Aug-2002 - PLEASANTON, Calif., July 31 - ACCPAC International, Inc., a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc., announced today that Metrohm-Peak, a leader in ion chromatography instrumentation and advanced analytical chemistry services, has selected ACCPAC Advantage Series(TM) and ACCPAC ...

WACKER Achieves Turnaround Despite On-Going Market Weakness

02-Aug-2002 - WACKER improved its position in the first half of 2002, despite a ten-percent drop in consolidated sales compared to the high prior-year level. Group sales for the first half of 2002 were EUR 1.4 billion. Significant price pressure in almost all markets played a major role, negatively impacting ...

Nutrition 21 and Rutherford Chemicals Announce Long Term Supply Agreement

01-Aug-2002 - PURCHASE, N.Y. July 31, 2002 - Nutrition 21, Inc, a leading developer and marketer of nutrition products formulated with chromium and other trace minerals, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a three-year exclusive supply agreement for the manufacture of its Chromax(R) chromium ...