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Companies Polymers General

TOTAL
Full year chemical profits decline on weak Q4 margins / Gonfreville styrene plant to start up end 2008
20.02.2008
DOW
Record dollar-denominated sales in 2007 / EBIT ratio in plastics sinks / Exit route from “ethylene trough”
11.02.2008
ICO
Record earnings posted in Q4 2006/2007 / Results for the next quarter expected to be positive
10.01.2008
DOW
Plans for global olefins and polyolefins jv with Kuwait / First major project in “asset light" strategy
17.12.2007
BASF
Structural reorganisation / Styrenic copolymers and foams to Performance Polymers / Closer to customer
10.12.2007
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
1,500 jobs to go in EUR 300m cost-saving plan up to 2009 / No compulsory redundancies
08.11.2007
BASF
Earnings on plastics hit by plant outages in Q3 2007 / Styrenics sale is targeted by year's end
01.11.2007
DOW
Asset light strategy explained again / Dismissed executive Kreinberg files suit against JP Morgan
31.10.2007
SABIC
Results improve / Integration of GE Plastics in progress / Al-Mady to push aromatics chain
29.10.2007
PETKIM
Feeling of mistrust towards Armenian investors / Losing Turkish consortium likely to do the deal
26.10.2007
BAYER
Plans to de-list from New York stock exchange / Other European firms have already fled
07.09.2007
TVK
Earnings soar in first half of 2007
22.08.2007
BASF
Delisting from NYSE / Complexity and costs reduced / Dialogue with US investors remains
01.08.2007
HUNTSMAN
“Definitive agreement” on USD 10.6 bn takeover by Hexion / Basell declines to raise the stakes
13.07.2007
SABIC
US regulatory authority approves GE Plastics acquisition / EU vote due in early August
13.07.2007
ARKEMA
Office move complete as optimisation continues
12.07.2007
HUNTSMAN
Bidding war beginning? / Apollo ups its offer / High level of debt
11.07.2007
PETKIM
Kazakh-Russian group wins race for majority of Turkish petrochemical producer / Deal questioned by trade unions
11.07.2007
BASF
Concentration on higher-end plastics / Growth rates above the market / Polycarbonate of interest
10.07.2007
HUNTSMAN
Hexion owner outbids Basell owner for US chemical group / Private equity funds in bidding war?
06.07.2007
BASELL
Takeover of Huntsman for USD 9.6 bn / Blavatnik lands a coup after all / Lyondell option evidently abandoned
28.06.2007
PETKIM
Ineos and Basell place bids for 51% stake
25.05.2007
DOW
JV with Saudi Aramco to build world-scale petrochemicals complex at Ras Tanura site
18.05.2007
BASELL
Investor Blavatnik moves on Lyondell / Possible polyolefins merger? / Bid for GE Plastics, too
16.05.2007
DOW
Fired managers file suits for nearly USD 700m / Company also sues / "Negative body language"
10.05.2007
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