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Vale to Grow African Copper Business

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) announces that it has entered into a definitive arrangement agreement with African Rainbow Minerals Limited (ARM) and its 65%-owned subsidiary TEAL Exploration & Mining Incorporated ...

16 Dec 2008

BASF Expand Construction Chemicals Business

BASF
Construction Chemicals (China) Co., Ltd. announced that it has acquired the
concrete admixture business of Kejie Admixture Science & Technology Co.
Ltd. (“Kejie”), a leading concrete admixture supplier in South China.
Located close to Guangzhou, the capital of the Guangdong province, Kejie produces
a wide range of concrete admixtures and intermediate products.

16 Dec 2008

Global Chemical Manufacturer Terminates Merger Talks

Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) announced it has terminated its Merger Agreement with Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (“Hexion”). In addition, Huntsman announced that it reached an agreement with Hexion, Ap...

16 Dec 2008

DSM Take Measures to Allow for Upcoming Economic Difficulties

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, today announces actions to strengthen its competitive position. These actions are expected to deliver structural c...

16 Dec 2008

Air Products Accelerate Restructuring Activities to Counter Slowing Economy

Air Products (NYSE:APD) today announced that it will take a restructuring charge to earnings in its fiscal 2009 first quarter to move to a lower cost structure and better align its businesses to reflect rapidly declining...

16 Dec 2008

New Market Report on Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Nanotechnology - World R&D Report 2008 - Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" report to their offering. This bibliometric report examines s...

16 Dec 2008

Accelrys Release the Latest Version of Their Materials Modelling and Simulation Software

Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACCL) today announced the release of Materials Studio(R) 4.4, the newest version of its materials modeling and simulation platform. Materials Studio 4.4 extends its multiscale modeling capabilities...

16 Dec 2008

Up to 400 Jobs to be Added at UPM Mill Site

The business park at the UPM Kajaani mill premises will further expand. To date, UPM has signed agreements on the premises with 17 companies in total. Of the agreements, 13 are letters of intent and 4 final agreements. ...

16 Dec 2008

ExxonMobil to Invest More than $1 billion in Cleaner Burning Diesel Fuels

ExxonMobil Refining & Supply today announced it will invest more than $1 billion in three refineries to increase the supply of cleaner burning diesel by about six million gallons per day. The company will construct n...

16 Dec 2008

UPM to Collaborate on Global Printing Skills Competition

UPM has agreed to cooperate with Sinapse Print Simulators in the "SHOTS heard around the world" global printing skills competition. The competition is meant for the Graphic Art students in educational institute...

16 Dec 2008

New Type of Thermally Active Phase Change Material Available from Shin-Etsu

Shin-Etsu
Chemical has begun to market a new type of thermally
conductive phase change material (PCM) called the "PCS-LT Series".
Compared to existing PCM, this new product is softer and thus it is easy to
bond to substrates and is superior in reworkability.

16 Dec 2008

Cabot Aerogel to Insulate Subsea Pipeline

Cabot Corporation's Aerogel business today announced that its patented and patent-pending Nanogel aerogel Compression Pack(TM) product has been selected by Pipeline Technique, Ltd. (PTL) and Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC), to insulate a 39-km subsea pipeline in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

16 Dec 2008

Qatar Aluminium and Qatar University to Collaborate

Qatar University has signed an agreement with Hydro
and Qatar Aluminium Company (Qatalum) to establish a faculty chair of aluminium
production at the university's College of Engineering.

16 Dec 2008

Hexion Terminates Merger Talks with Hunstman

Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (“Hexion”), today announced that on December 13, 2008, Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) (“Huntsman”) terminated the proposed merger between Huntsman and Hexion. On...

15 Dec 2008

Konarka Announces Strategic Collaboration and Investment from Total

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power PlasticR, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has signed bilateral R and D and cooperation agreemen...

15 Dec 2008

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Vale to Grow African Copper Business

BASF Expand Construction Chemicals Business

Global Chemical Manufacturer Terminates Merger Talks

DSM Take Measures to Allow for Upcoming Economic Difficulties

Air Products Accelerate Restructuring Activities to Counter Slowing Economy

New Market Report on Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Accelrys Release the Latest Version of Their Materials Modelling and Simulation Software

Up to 400 Jobs to be Added at UPM Mill Site

ExxonMobil to Invest More than $1 billion in Cleaner Burning Diesel Fuels

UPM to Collaborate on Global Printing Skills Competition

New Type of Thermally Active Phase Change Material Available from Shin-Etsu

Cabot Aerogel to Insulate Subsea Pipeline

Qatar Aluminium and Qatar University to Collaborate

Hexion Terminates Merger Talks with Hunstman

Konarka Announces Strategic Collaboration and Investment from Total

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