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• CW75 stock performance.

  - 2004-07-21

  The CW75 fell 1.8% for the week ended June 21, lagging the Morgan Stanley global composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes, which slipped 1.4% and 1.6%, respectively. Basic chemical stocks were up 3.1%, however, due to a strong start to the earnings season. Diversified chemical...

  Tags: 3M Co., Agrium Inc., BASF AG, Clorox Co., Lyondell Chemical Co., MacDermid Inc., Millennium Chemicals Inc., NOVA Chemicals Corp.

• CW75 stock performance.(Illustration)

  - 2004-07-14

  The CW75 Index tell 2.4% for the week ending July 7, lagging broader market indexes including the Morgan Stanley global composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes, which fell 1.3% and 1.9%, respectively. Specialty chemical stocks were the hardest hit, falling 2.5%. Diversifieds fell 1.8%, but...

  Tags: 3M Co., Agrium Inc., BASF AG, Clorox Co., E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., H.B. Fuller Co., Lyondell Chemical Co., MacDermid Inc., Millennium Chemicals Inc., Molecular Inc., NOVA Chemicals Corp., Rhodia, Sasol Ltd.

• Petrochemicals: gas surge, war, economy keep industry on edge. (Cover Story).

  - 2003-03-26

  U.S. petrochemical makers are under siege. Profits, already hurt by overcapacity and faltering demand, are being further hit by a sharp increase in feedstock costs since late 2002, the result of the uncertainty about a war with Iraq and political turmoil in Venezuela. Prices for natural...

  Tags: BASF AG, BP Plc, NOVA Chemicals Corp., The Dow Chemical Co.

• CW75 stock performance.(Illustration)

  - 2003-03-19

  The CW75 slipped 1% last week, approaching its 52-week low of 85.77 reached on October 9, amid concerns about rising costs, and investor jitters across all regions. The CW75 faired better than the Morgan Stanley world composite and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes, however; they fell...

  Tags: 3M Co., Agrium Inc., Akzo Nobel N.V., BASF AG, Clorox Co., E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Genencor, Lyondell Chemical Co., MacDermid Inc., Millennium Chemicals Inc., NOVA Chemicals Corp., PPG Industries, Rhodia

• NOVA and BASF improve position in styrene monomer. (News Briefs).(Brief Article)

  - 2002-10-01

  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 contract commits BASF to supply styrene monomer to NOVA Chemicals' European...

  Tags: BASF AG, NOVA Chemicals Corp.

• Styrene supply deal

  - 2002-08-19

  Nova Chemicals and BASF have signed a long-term styrene supply contract, which commits Nova to supplying BASF in the Nafta region and BASF to supplying Nova sites in Europe. Nova will debottleneck a plant at Bayport, Texas, taking the company's capacity to 1.39mt/year.

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• STYRENE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-05-24

  PRICES U. S. Spot, 36 cts-38 cts/lb fob; April contract, 43 cts-45 crs/lb fob ASIA Spot $750-$800/m.t. fob EUROPE Spot, $950-$9701m.t. fob; second-quarter contract, [epsilon]950- [epsilon]975/m.r. delivered OUTLOOK Styrene margins have edged back...

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• Shell pulls out of polystyrene and pools polyolefins with BASF.(Brief Article)

  - 1999-11-01

  SHELL has pulled out of polystyrene as part of a strategy announced by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in December last year to divest several non-core chemicals businesses. Nova Chemicals Corporation, the Canadian company which last year bought the bulk of the Huntsman polystyrene...

  Tags: BASF AG, Nova Chemicals Corp.

• Changes ahead for PE technologies.(polyethylene)

  - 1996-07-17

  Innovations in catalyst technologies have broadened the highly competitive polyethylene PE licensing business. Chemical firms such as Montell Polyolefins, BP Chemicals, Nova Chemicals, DSM and BASF have challenged Union Carbide's leadership in PE licensing by signing licensing deals for their gas-phase and solution-phase technologies. Polymer and resin manufacturers could use...

  Tags: BASF AG, BP Plc, DSM, Montell Polyolefins, NOVA Chemicals Corp., Phillips Petroleum, Union Carbide Corp.