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DOW CHEMICAL
Fourth quarter loss hits 2008 result / Volumes down by 5% / Plastics segments see plummeting sales and profits / Figures “very disappointing”
05.02.2009
DOW
Delaware court sets 9 March trial date in takeover dispute / Moody's urges formal delay agreement
30.01.2009
DOW
Rohm & Haas seeks USD 15 bn for breach of contract / Kuwait deal collapse cited for takeover delay
28.01.2009
DOW
US regulatory authority approves Rohm & Haas takeover plan / Two-day closing ruled out
27.01.2009
DOW
Kuwaiti joint venture collapses / Declining oil revenues and credit crunch / Rohm and Haas shaky?
05.01.2009
DOW
Permanent workforce to be cut by 11% / Plans to close 20 plants and idle 180 / “Non-strategic” businesses will be divested
11.12.2008
BASF
“Massive decline in demand” prompts capacity cuts, plant shutdowns / Some 180 units affected / Preparing for “tough times”
20.11.2008
ROSNEFT
Petrochemicals complex to be built near Vladivostok
12.11.2008
INDIA PETROCHEMICALS
GAIL / IOCL collaborate on new cracker complex
11.11.2008
PETROCHEMICALS
Financial crisis: merger of Hexion and Huntsman still touch and go / Ineos and LyondellBasell under pressure? / Companies deny media reports
10.11.2008
SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS
Production of engineering thermoplastics reduced by 20%
06.11.2008
BASF
Naphtha hedging hits third quarter 2008 earnings
03.11.2008
BAYER
Poor performance at BMS depresses group results in Q 3 2008 / Full-year guidance unchanged / Auto crisis begins to be felt
31.10.2008
ALMAAK
Takeover of the compounding business of insolvent J&A / Focus in future on toll compounding / Belgian offshoot unaffected
01.08.2008
PETKIM
New owners to double capacity in five years
28.07.2008
SABIC
First half 2008 sales increase by 54%
25.07.2008
K-DOW PETROCHEMICALS
New jv with Kuwait takes shape / HQ in US state of Michigan / Financial incentives
21.07.2008
DOW
Settlement with former top managers / Kreinberg and Reinhard admit to “unauthorised” buyout talks
05.06.2008
SIBUR
Petrochemical group expands polyolefin activities / Russia lifts PE export duty
15.05.2008
SIBUR
Managers seek to acquire petrochemicals producer from Gazprom
08.05.2008
BASF
Plastics earnings “considerably higher” in Q1 / Dollar weakness pressures sales
29.04.2008
BAYER
Wenning stands by polymer plans / New capacity in Europe
23.04.2008
DOW
Strategic portfolio review extended to other plastics businesses / Preparation for spin-off or sale
28.02.2008
BASF
Styrenics deal to be wrapped up in H1 / Sales and EBIT records in 2007 / Hambrecht optimistic
25.02.2008
TOTAL
Full year chemical profits decline on weak Q4 margins / Gonfreville styrene plant to start up end 2008
20.02.2008
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