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BASF Says Financial Crisis Hardest in N.America: Report: FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German chemicals company BASF (BASF) has felt the repercussions of a financial crisis mostly in North America and expects the global market for chemicals to grow by 2.8 percent this year, its chief executive told a German weekly....; Tags: Engineering, BASF AG, chemicals, chemical company, repercussion, Frankfurt, North America, oil, financial, Thomson Reuters Corp., CEO, benefit, sales; News items 2008-05-03
BASF Upbeat Despite Economic Slowdown: By Mantik Kusjanto MANNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's BASF (BASF), the world's biggest chemicals company by sales, remains upbeat despite signs of a slowing global economy after posting strong first-quarter results that beat expectations. "Our long-term strategy is paying off," Chief Executive ...; Tags: Sales strategy, BASF AG, chemicals, Germany, The Dow Chemical Co., sales, earnings, financial market, Thomson Reuters Corp., analyst, operating profit, net profit, income, CEO, tax, acquisition, financial, strategy; News items 2008-04-24
The Alchemy of LBOs: Over the past two years, big chemicals corporations seeking to improve shareholder returns by running more focused businesses have sold assets worth almost $20 billion to leveraged-buyout (LBO) firms and similar private companies.1 Indeed, in 1999 and 2000 the value of public-to-private chemicals deals ran at about twice the total...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, McKinsey & Co., chemicals, LBO, shareholder, knowledge; White papers
FMC chemicals: Burner Management System Upgrade Improves Performance and Saves Energy at a Chemical Plant: FMC Chemicals Corporation is one of the world's foremost, diversified chemical companies with leading positions in agricultural, industrial and consumer markets. In December 2001, the Green River Plant's personnel underwent some DOE-sponsored training on steam system efficiency and methodologies for evaluating industrial steam systems. By replacing the poorly functioning Burner...; Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, natural gas, training, performance; Case studies
Compressed Air System Optimization Saves Energy and Improves Production at Synthetic Textile Plant: Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Solutia is a global specialty chemicals company that was the chemicals division of the Monsanto Corporation prior to 1997. The plant was beset with moisture carry-over that was negatively affecting product quality. In response to this problem, and in response to high compressed air costs,...; Tags: U.S. Department of Energy, chemicals; Case studies

The Total Customer Experience: Best Practices of Cisco, Lands' End, and Air Products and chemicals: Regardless of whether we are business customers or independent consumers, we desire "one version of the truth." Learn how best-practice organizations provide one version of truth to employees and customers, thus creating a singular customer experience. This report offers deep insights into a variety of factors that impact and contribute...; Tags: APQC, chemicals, best practice; White papers
chemicals Industry: The chemicals industry is facing a difficult competitive environment. Industry consolidation and globalization have led to a state where individual products and segments are becoming increasingly commoditized. Declining margins have caused companies to rethink their entire strategies, and being a low-cost producer has increased in importance, often at the expense...; Tags: Invensys, chemicals, globalization, industry, business process, asset, strategy, performance, environment; White papers
Sterling chemicals: This case study is about Sterling Chemicals, which produces petrochemicals, acrylic fibers and pulp chemicals, and provides large-scale chlorine dioxide generators to the pulp and paper industry. Its primary petrochemical facility is in Texas City, Texas, where it produces styrene, acrylonitrile, acetic acid, plasticizers, methanol and sodium cyanide. CATSCAN provides...; Tags: Performance management, chemicals, software modeling, performance monitoring, dashboard, modeling, fiber, performance, industry, tool, software; Case studies
Infrastructure Management Services for a Leading Manufacturer of chemicals, Flavors and Perfumes: The client, one of the most trusted names in the manufacture of chemicals, flavors and perfumes, faced several challenges in meeting business service levels due to a disparate, heterogeneous IT infrastructure and the lack of standard infrastructure management processes. Infosys helped migrate and consolidate three client datacenters into one third-party...; Tags: IT Services, IT Management, infrastructure management, Infosys Technologies Ltd., chemicals, Service Management, IT infrastructure, data center, environment, benefit, information technology, security, tool; Case studies
Potential Health, Environmental Impacts of Photovoltaic Cells Assessed: EPRI and the California Energy Commission cosponsored a project to collect information on potential environmental impacts of chemicals used in California's photovoltaic (PV) industry. A new report on the work from EPRI provides an overview of the photovoltaic industry and includes the types of cells that were manufactured or under...; Tags: Electric Power Research Institute, photovoltaics, chemicals, cell, manufacturing, industry, health care; White papers
Bayer Pharmaceuticals and chemicals Industry: Developing Tomorrow's Leaders With an Initiative That Understands Change: This major chemical, crop, science and pharmaceutical company had enjoyed success with a decentralized "Command and Control" approach to leadership. As it moved into a complex organizational change process aimed at operating more flexibly and competitively in its markets, an elemental part of the challenge revolved around meeting the developmental...; Tags: Workforce management, Bayer AG, leadership, pharmaceutical company, chemicals, talent, leader, training, performance; Case studies
Pharmacologist Job Description: The Pharmacologist job description template includes the following job summary: To study the actions of chemicals substances (including medicines) on tissues and physiological processes of animals and humans. Additional information available includes essential job functions, additional responsibilities, and education and experience requirements.; Tags: chemicals, job; Tools & templates 2007-09-09
Observing Health and Safety at Work: Regardless of size, all businesses have a legal responsibility to protect the health and safety of their employees and visitors to their workplaces and offices, and a range of federal and state laws exist to ensure that responsibility is met. This article explains the main steps you must take for...; Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, workplace, OSHA, health care, medical record, chemicals, public health, HIPAA, Human Resources, job, worker, compliance, storage, Web site, Web; Articles 2007-06-26
Migration to the Global ERP System: BASF is the world's leading chemical company. Its portfolio ranges from chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products and fine chemicals to crude oil and natural gas. As a reliable partner to virtually all industries, BASF's intelligent system solutions and high-value products help its customers to be more successful. BASF develops...; Tags: BASF AG, chemicals, plastics, natural gas, performance, industry; Case studies 2006-05-01
High Performance ERP: Creating Value With Accenture and SAP Best Practices for chemicals: Enterprise resource planning for a midsized chemical company is like a traffic jam. The paper reveals that getting a typical ERP solution implemented both cost-effectively and within a short timeframe is nearly impossible. The combination of global business, mergers and acquisitions, development in emerging markets, increasing production and product quality...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Accenture Ltd., ERP, chemicals, emerging market, M&A, high-performance, best practice; White papers 2005-05-12
Chemical Plant Security: This report provides background information and summarizes issues relevant to existing and proposed requirements aimed at reducing risks to the general public of exposure to hazardous chemicals as a result of terrorist acts at U.S. chemical production, processing, or storage facilities. It considers the likelihood and severity of harm that...; Tags: Business security, chemicals, contingency planning, terrorist attack, storage, security; White papers 2005-02-14
Driven to Differentiate: The paper shows that chemicals companies are caught between energy cost volatility and customer consolidation. And as the industry matures, differentiation is crucial to successful operation and high performance. All high performers in this industry exhibit special internal strengths. Their leadership teams are remarkably stable; although recent CEO turnover in...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., chemicals, volatility, industry, high-performance, CEO, leadership; White papers 2005-01-19
SAP ERP chemicals Packaged Solution: Today, chemical manufacturers are facing a variety of challenges, including dealing with a volatile market characterized by fluctuating prices, changing demand patterns, increasing competition, and heightened regulatory pressures. This article explores how the SAP ERP Chemicals packaged solution can help streamline business processes; improve sales, operations, and supply chain planning;...; Tags: chemicals, SAP AG, supply chain, CRM, business process, sales; White papers 2005-01-11
Generating Economic Value in chemicals: Possibility or Illusion?: For years, the chemicals industry has had to face deteriorating profitability and has therefore generated very little economic value. The industry has been very aware of this trend and has, in response, used various approaches to try to improve the situation. Unfortunately, the strategies used so far have not resulted...; Tags: chemicals, industry, survey, strategy; White papers 2004-11-23
Coordination in a Supply Chain for Bulk chemicals: A chemical plant in The Netherlands uses large annual supplies of a bulk chemical. A number of suppliers deliver their parcels from overseas by short sea vessel to a transshipment point where they are stored using a tank farm. Transportation from the transshipment point to the plant takes place by...; Tags: Corporate governance, Erasmus University Rotterdam, board, chemicals, transportation, supply chain, supplier, storage, benefit; White papers 2004-11-11