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• Soap and Detergent Association

  - 2008-02-25

  Frank Sherman, president and general manager of Akzo Nobel's surfactants business has been elected to the position of board chair of the Soap and Detergent Association SDA. Sherman is joined by Susan Nestegard, senior vice president, research, development, engineering and chief technical officer of Ecolab, as vice chair. Other new...

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• 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.

• CW75 stock performance.(Chemical Week, chemical industry)(Illustration)

  - 2004-05-19

  The CW75 fell 3.7% for the week ending May 12, its biggest slide since the index was created in January 2003. The Standard and Poor's 500 index slipped 2.2%, and the Morgan Stanley global composite index dropped 3.9%. Basic chemical stocks took the hardest hit, falling...

  Tags: BASF AG, Clorox Co., Genencor International Inc., H.B. Fuller Co., Lyondell Chemical Co., Millennium Chemicals Inc., Molecular Inc., Rhodia, Sasol Ltd.

• Pipeline and plant plans spell investment for petrochemicals

  - 2003-10-01

  Saudi petrochemicals giant Sabic, which bought DSM Petrochemicals last summer, is among the prospective partners for a propylene pipeline grid for Northern Europe. The project, which would cost [euro]180million, also includes Shell, BASF, BP and Sasol. Meanwhile, Sabic Euro-Petrochemicals has revived DSM's plans for investments in feedstocks and polyolefins. ...

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• BASF

  - 2001-06-18

  The European Union looks set to clear Germany's BASF's purchase of chemical companies, Pantochim and Eurodiol. The two rival Belgian firms are operating under bankruptcy protection and it is believed that Mario Monti, the EU's competition minister will allow the acquisition of both companies as he considers it better that...

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