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| GEA boosts EBIT margin significantly in 2011 |
| GEA Group’s order intake rose 23 percent to EUR 5,610 million in fiscal year 2011. Excluding the new GEA Convenience-Food Technologies segment, the year on year increase would have been 15 percent. It should be highlighted that the fourth quarter saw the highest order intake in the fiscal year. The ... |
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| A. Schulman Acquires Elian SAS |
| A. Schulman, Inc. announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Elian SAS, a French portfolio company of British Vita plc, for approximately euro 48 million or $63 million in cash based on current exchange rates. Elian is a leading producer of highly specialized color masterbatc... |
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| Huntsman Corporation Announces Appointment of Jon Huntsman, Jr. as New Board Member |
| Huntsman Corporation announced the appointment of Jon Huntsman, Jr. as a new director to its Board of Directors effective February 1, 2012. Jon Huntsman, Jr., age 51, most recently was a candidate for the Republican nomination for the President of the United States. He suspended his campaign less t... |
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| Borealis announces new leadership for Pec-Rhin S.A. |
| Borealis announces the appointment of Johan Van Grootel as Chairman of the Executive Board of PEC-Rhin S.A. as of February 1, 2012. Borealis has recently acquired PEC-Rhin (Ottmarsheim, France), a producer of nitrate fertilizers as well as ammonia, ammonia water and nitric acid for industrial use, f... |
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| New cooperation with Brenntag GmbH and Colonial Chemical, Inc. |
| Brenntag GmbH is pleased to announce that it will include the product range of Colonial Chemical, Inc. into its cosmetic portfolio. This cooperation has already been agreed with the Benelux countries as well as UK & Ireland in 2011. Colonial Chemical, Inc. is focused on the development and manufactu... |
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| Ocean Optics Expands OEM Team |
| To meet the growing global demand for its OEM engineering services, Ocean Optics has appointed David Creasey, Ph.D., to the newly created position Director of OEM Business. Creasey will lead the company’s dedicated OEM sales and engineering teams in providing expert integration support to original e... |
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| LANXESS increases price level for Chloroprene Rubber |
| LANXESS announced a price increase for its Baypren branded Chloroprene business line of up to EUR 180 EUR / 240 USD per metric ton on a global basis. Reason being the since early 2012 again increasing raw material and energy prices amidst a tightening market for the respective feedstocks. Subject to... |
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| Solvay has successfully commisioned the largest PEM fuel cell at Solvin's Antwerp plant |
| Solvay announced it has successfully commissioned its 1 MegaWatt (MW) industrial demonstration Fuel Cell at the SolVin plant in Lillo, Antwerp, Belgium. This Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell converts coproduced hydrogen (H2) in the plant into electricity and is now producing for weeks at a s... |
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| Roquette and Rhodia Acetow sign joint development agreement for the elaboration of new plant-based polymers |
| Roquette and Rhodia Acetow have signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to develop new plant-based polymers. The JDA will enable both companies to leverage synergies bringing together respective competencies in the field of plant-based polymer chemistry. Jean Bernard Leleu, Deputy CEO and Researc... |
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| Bilcare Solutions increases films prices |
| Bilcare Solutions, the films business of the Bilcare Research Group, specialised in the manufacturing of highly developed and refined rigid plastic films, increases films prices with immediate effect. “Due to very short-term and drastic resin price increases of at least 10%, announced by our supplie... |
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| AkzoNobel further strengthens its global MCA position |
| AkzoNobel takes two further steps in strengthening its global position in the market of monochloroacetic acid (MCA). Recently it has commissioned its expanded Delfzijl MCA facility in the Netherlands, which now has a capacity exceeding 100,000 MT/year. In parallel, AkzoNobel is to further increase M... |
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| DKSH opens sales office in Sri Lanka and accomplishes major expansion into the Indian subcontinent |
| DKSH’s Business Unit Performance Materials opened its first sales office in Sri Lanka on January 20, 2012. This opening is another milestone in expanding into the Indian subcontinent and enables the Swiss-headquartered Market Expansion Services specialist to extend its service portfolio to Sri Lanka... |
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| Henkel awards outstanding suppliers |
| At the 2012 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention, January 30 through February 4 in Orlando, Florida, Henkel recognized four outstanding suppliers for their excellent cooperation. The “Henkel Sustainability Award”, which is presented for the first time, was conferr... |
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| Wacker Appoints New Distributor in Russia for Polymer Products for the Construction Industry |
| As part of a constant sales channel improvement, Wacker is restructuring its distribution network in Russia. Effective February 2012, the chemical distributor Eurohim will handle WACKER’s dispersions and dispersible powders for the construction industry, marketed under the VINNAPAS® brand. In the co... |
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| BASF inaugurates its first sodium methylate plant in South America |
| BASF officially inaugurated its new world-scale production plant for sodium methylate in Guaratinguetá, Brazil, its largest site in South America. The plant has a capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year and is supplying the regional market. Production started at the end of 2011 and the plant has bee... |
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| Pushing the Boundaries: New dye could open the door to in vivo applications of fluorescence anisotropy |
| US scientists have synthesized a polymethine dye that can be used for fluorescence anisotropy imaging in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range, making new in vivo applications of this technique possible. Until now, the method has been limited to the visible part of the spectrum, mainly being used i... |
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| Pesticides keep fungus poisons out of the food chain |
| Farmers must control fungus to keep food safe is the main conclusion of a new study presented at the DG SANCO’s Fusarium Forum. The study, carried out by Horta Srl. and the University of Piacenza “Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, stresses the importance of the azole class of fungicides in the... |
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| BIS Industrial Services Secures Prestigious Combined Service Contracts from UK’s Process Industry and Power Sector |
| Four of the UK’s largest companies in the process industry and power sector have chosen BIS Industrial Services Ltd., a subsidiary of Bilfinger Berger Industrial Services Group (BIS Group), as their sole provider of industrial services across a number of important assets. With its customers’ mainten... |
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| Katja Stolle takes over as analytica Exhibition Director |
| Effective February 6, 2012, Katja Stolle (31) will be the interim head of the Exhibition Management team for analytica, the International Trade Fair for Laboratory Technology, Analysis and Biotechnology. Stolle is standing in for Susanne Grödl (42), who has been Exhibition Director of analytica sinc... |
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| Former Lufthansa building renamed “LANXESS Tower” |
| Specialty chemicals company LANXESS will be able to welcome employees, customers and guests to the “LANXESS Tower” from the middle of next year. This is the new name chosen for the company's future headquarters on Deutzer Freiheit in Cologne. In summer 2011, LANXESS asked its employees to help choos... |
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| Cornerstone Ceremony for New Oxea Carboxylic Acid Plant in Oberhausen |
| In the presence of Klaus Wehling, Lord Mayor of Oberhausen, Dr. Martina Flöel, spokesperson of the Executive Board of Oxea, laid the cornerstone for a new Oxea production plant, the so-called Carboxylic Acid Plant 3. More than 50 guests from the business and political arena as well as site partners ... |
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| Dow Home & Personal Care Receives “Best Innovation Contributor 2011” Award from Henkel |
| Dow Home & Personal Care, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company received the “Best Innovation Contributor 2011” award from Henkel Laundry & Home Care at the 2012 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention, Jan. 30 to Feb. 4, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. Every year He... |
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| Sartorius grows at double-digit rates and boosts operating earnings by more than 30% |
| Sartorius grew dynamically yet again in 2011 and significantly expanded its profitability. Both Group divisions reported highs in sales revenue and earnings. The financial targets that the company had raised twice before year-end were fully achieved. Sartorius expects positive business development f... |
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| Bayer CO2 project among best ideas for the future |
| A Bayer project for using the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide as a component for plastics is among Germany’s most promising ideas for the future. The “Dream Production” research initiative is one of the award winners in this year’s “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” competition. A pilot plant at Bay... |
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| Evocatal and RohnerChem announce strategic partnership for enzymatic chemistry development and upscaling |
| Evocatal and RohnerChem combine their complementary services to offer customers a seamless solution for the development of high-performance biocatalytic processesand their rapid application in the synthesis of fine chemicals and API. The focus of this strategic partnership is to offer highly innovat... |
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| BASF Venture Capital invests $5 million in US-based Solidia Technologies |
| BASF Venture Capital GmbH is investing $5 million in Solidia Technologies, Inc. as part of a $27 million financing round. The current round of financing also included Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, BP Ventures and Bright Capital, the venture arm of Ru-Com Corporation. Solidia Technologies enabl... |
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| Arkema speeds up its development in Asia and in green chemistry with the closing of the acquisition of Hipro Polymers and Casda Biomaterials |
| Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Chinese companies Hipro Polymers, a producer of specialty biosourced polyamides 10.10, and Casda Biomaterials, a producer of sebacic acid processed from castor oil.«This acquisition represents a large development potential for Arkema. It offers significant gro... |
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| Carl Zeiss opens new customer office in South Korea |
| Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division has opened an office in the Bundang province of South Korea. The new location south of Seoul enables Carl Zeiss SMS to provide optimized customer service with faster delivery of spare parts and on-site activities. "We are significantly improv... |
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| AkzoNobel invests €80 million to supply new Suzano pulp mill in Brazil |
| AkzoNobel is planning to invest €80 million in the construction of a new pulp Chemical Island facility in Brazil. The plant, operated by the company's Pulp and Paper Chemicals business, Eka Chemicals, will supply the Suzano Maranhão pulp mill. This is AkzoNobel's second largest investment in Brazil ... |
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| Yara acquires controlling stake in Burrup Holdings |
| Yara acquired 16% of Burrup Holdings Limited (BHL) for USD 143 million, increasing its ownership share in the company to 51%. Concurrently, Apache Energy has acquired the remaining 49% of the shares in BHL, and signed a new shareholders' agreement with Yara."We are pleased to secure majority ownersh... |
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| Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures |
| Using computer simulations, a RUB researcher has shown that the oxygen molecule (O2) is stable up to pressures of 1.9 terapascal, which is about nineteen million times higher than atmosphere pressure. Above that, it polymerizes, i.e. builds larger molecules or structures. “This is very surprising” s... |
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| Enerkem appoints new board member |
| Enerkem announced that Carl Rush, Senior Vice President of Organic Growth for Waste Management, Inc., joined its board of directors. Mr. Rush joined Waste Management in 2001. As Senior Vice President of Organic Growth, he is responsible for finding growth opportunities that are synergistic with the ... |
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| BASF increases prices for ethanolamines in Europe |
| With immediate effect, or as existing contracts permit, BASF is increasing its European sales prices for ethanolamines (EOA) as follows: Monoethanolamine (MEOA) + 60 Euro/ mt Diethanolamine (DEOA) + 60 Euro/ mt Triethanolamine (TEOA) + 60 Euro/ mt or by the equivalent amo... |
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| LANXESS expands Jhagadia site to serve booming Indian market |
| LANXESS is continuing to expand its Indian production site in Jhagadia, Gujarat state. The specialty chemicals group is underlining its commitment to the subcontinent by inaugurating three new plants this month to serve the growing India market. LANXESS has invested over EUR 70 million and created r... |
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| DEKRA: Change in management of Business Unit Industrial |
| At its meeting on 26 January 2012, the Supervisory Board of DEKRA SE appointed Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Ivo Rauh (52) as a new member of the Management Board of DEKRA SE. Rauh will assume responsibility for the business unit Industrial effective 1 April 2012, taking over from Mark Thomä (43), who will ta... |
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| Wacker Signs Partnership Agreement with Spanish Silicones Compounder Siliconas Silam |
| Wacker, the Munich-based chemicals group, is deepening its ties with Siliconas Silam S.A., a silicones compounder in Spain. The two companies recently signed an agreement to that effect. Under its terms, Siliconas Silam may sell ready-to-use products made from Wacker silicone rubber base under its o... |
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| Photonics Innovation Award for WITec |
| WITec has just received the Photonics Prism Award 2011 for the development of TrueSurfaceTM Microscopy. This internationally respected product innovation award recognizes cutting-edge products that break conventional ideas and improve life through photonics and is presented each year by SPIE and Pho... |
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| Hamilton Storage Technologies Breaks Ground on New Headquarters Facility |
| Hamilton Storage Technologies announced that it has broken ground on a new 52,000-square-foot facility in Franklin, Mass., more than quadrupling its space. The facility will serve as the East Coast hub for Hamilton Company.According to Matt Hamilton, vice president, the new facility will house the h... |
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| Oxea Announces Price Increases |
| Oxea will increase list and off-list prices on the following products effective February 15, 2012, or as contracts allow for USA, Canada and Mexico: Product February 15, 2012 Increase (US$/lb) List Price (Zone 1) (US$/lb) i/n Butanol $0.05 $1.58 i/n Butyl Acetate $0.05 $1.36 n Butyraldehy... |
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| From seaweed to biofuels |
| Novozymes announced an exploratory research agreement with Sea6 Energy, an India-based company, to jointly develop a process for the production of biofuels from seaweed. The research alliance will use enzymes to convert seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then be fermented to produce eth... |
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| Guinness World Record: X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie |
| It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg. In its 2012 edition, the famous Guinness Book of World Records lists an interval of a mere 50 femtoseconds between two frames for FLASH. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second, meaning that the two images... |
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| Dunn Labortechnik celebrates its 30th anniversary |
| In 1982 the company Dunn Labortechnik was founded in Asbach (Germany) by Hannelore and Peter Dunn. Since then, the company has supplied research and routine laboratories with equipment, disposables as well as immunoreagents, plasma and sera and has evolved from a nationally to an internationally ope... |
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| Rockwell Automation Reports First Quarter 2012 Results and Reaffirms Guidance |
| Rockwell Automation, Inc. reported fiscal 2012 first quarter sales of $1,473.9 million, up 8 percent from $1,365.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Acquisitions contributed 1 percentage point to the increase and currency translation reduced sales by 1 percentage point. Net income was $18... |
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| Bayer rated the most sustainable German company in its sector |
| Bayer's commitment to sustainability has gained special recognition: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the rating agency SAM and the auditors KPMG presented their Sustainability Yearbook 2012, which named Bayer as the best German chemical company and one of only three enterprises in the sector w... |
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| Eastman to Acquire Solutia |
| Eastman Chemical Company and Solutia Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, under which Eastman will acquire Solutia. Under the terms of the agreement, Solutia stockholders will receive $22.00 in cash and 0.12 shares of Eastman common stock for each share of Solutia commo... |
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| How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel |
| Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis. But Navrotsky and others have since discov... |
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| Catalyzing new uses for diesel by-products |
| A new catalytic process discovered at Cardiff University could unleash a range of useful new by-products from diesel fuel production. More sustainable production of sulphur-free diesel from natural gas and biomass is increasing. However the by-products, hydrocarbons like decane and other low value a... |
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| Graphene Rainbow |
| Butterfly wings, rose petals and many other natural surfaces repell water strongly; they are superhydrophobic. Such surfaces have a hierarchical structure on the micrometer or nanometer scale. Their attractive properties and spectacular iridescent colors have triggered a group led by Hong-Bo Sun of ... |
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| Dioxin and EHEC yesterday, antimicrobials today - what next? |
| Does the use of antimicrobials in animal production pose health risks to consumers? How safe is food in Germany? From a scientific viewpoint, what events carry a health risk for consumers? What crises may we be faced with in future? Ten years after the foundation of the Federal Institute for Risk As... |
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| Wacker Releases its Preliminary Fiscal 2011 Figures |
| In fiscal 2011, Wacker Chemie AG continued to increase its sales compared to the prior year. According to preliminary calculations, the Munich-based chemical company achieved total sales of €4.91 billion in 2011 (2010: €4.75 billion), up over 3 percent year over year. This slight sales rise stemmed ... |
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