Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk about:
BP’s Texas City repercussions
First quarter numbers from Rhodia, Akzo Nobel, Georgia Gulf, Ciba,
Kazan Orgsintez debt ratings
Bioethanol good or bad, the jury’s debating this week
Cellulosic ethanol
Dalem’s $888m Saudi deal win
More on Abu Dahbi’s plans in petrochemicals

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk about key chemical industry news from around the world.

Oil Company profits
The Ineos strike in the UK
Sibur on the block

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First quarter results from DuPont BASF Dow Eastman Merck
Sibur’s Management want 70% in a buyout
Bisphenol A in the US
Strike at Grangemouth in the UK affects ethylene, propylene and polymers. UK gasoline prices could be hit

Looking at the economy. How do BASF, Shell, Ineos and ChemSystems see the next couple of years, we report back from the NPRA.

What’s happening with RAG’s privatisation and who’s in the frame for BASF’s styrenics business.

Alberta’s tar sands

Ivan Lerner, ICIS’ commodities editor talks to Nova’s Gran Thompson about the potential buried in Alberta’s oil sands.

In the week NPRA kicks off, Nigel Davis and Simon Robinson discuss Wal-Mart starting chemicals screening, the US EPA's decision to test high volume inorganic chemicals and latest developments in the Middle East.

Andy Brice talks with Nick Savvides about the latest in chemical shipping trade worldwide, plus financial difficulties at SH Marine and Vinship's plans to diversify

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis discuss GAIL and Reliance Industries' plans to pursue joint mega petrochemical projects, PetroVietnam taking an 18% stake in Long Son's petrochemical project in south Vietnam, ExxonMobil's plans to boost cracker capacity in Asia and the Middle East and Brazil's soaring ethanol output.

ICIS's Nigel Davis and Simon Robinson discuss: Dow naming business units it could sell; Braskem completing Ipiranga Group deal; Huntsman studying global MDI expansion; Henkel selling Ecolab to pay for National Starch; and Blackstone mulling buying a stake in Evonik

Nigel Davis and Simon Robinson discuss: Dow naming business units it could sell; Braskem completing Ipiranga Group deal; Huntsman studying global MDI expansion; Henkel selling Ecolab to pay for National Starch; and Blackstone mulling buying a stake in Evonik

John Baker and Nigel Davis discuss: BASF's financial results for 2007, Gulf Petroleum's plans for an integrated oil, gas and petrochemicals complex in Malaysia, the sale of Rail4chem to France's Veolia Cargo and US toy retailer Toys"R"Us' plans to phase out phthalates

The latest chemical shipping news from ICIS, including a look at Camillo Eitzen's fourth quarter 2007 results

ICIS's Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis discuss: Total Petrochemicals' planned $1bn spend in 2008; the future of DSM's melamine assets at Geleen; Invista's new scavenger for PET; and consultancy McKinsey's predictions of white biotech sales reaching €125bn 'soon'

Solutia sues its bankers
Big week for biofuels
Duqm
Celanese Q4
Nalco Q4

ICIS' Simon Robinson and Nick Savvides talk about the latest in chemical shipping, including the effect of Chinese New Year on trade, further expansion plans by the Port of Antwerp and Odfjell's financial results

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk through some of the key stories in the petrochmicals business this week.

DuPont, Eastman, Chevron-Phillips and Air Products, what did their latest trading quarters look like and how well placed are they for the up coming economic slow down.

Carbon Credits, what could the European Union’s plans for these mean for the petrochemicals business.

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Ineos buys VAM and Ethyl Acetate from BP
First signs of results from the fourth quarter of 2007
China to ban plastic bags
New oil price forecast for 2008-01-11

Sir John Harvey Jones, former chairman of ICI dies.

Air Products Weblink

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Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk through some of the most important news stories from over the Christmas break.

$100/bbl oil and its impact on petchems
Takeover completions between Akzo Nobel and ICI, PPG and Sigma Kalon and Basell Lyondell
2007 as a record year for mergers and acquisitions in chemicals
Will Petkim be privatised or not?
Japanese firms interest in the Egyptian chemical sector

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk through what lies behind key chemicals industry news stories at the end of 2007.

Dow and PIC
Evonik
Clariant and Lanxess
M&A
Nufarm rebuffs ChemChina

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John Richardson’s letter from Singapore.
This month John muses on the accuracy of petrochemical forecasts.

Commodities editor Ivan Lerner examines automotive applications for the chemical industry, including attempts to create a more environmentally friendly car

Kevin Swift, chief economist at the American Chemistry Council, talks with Nigel Davis about his predictions and forecasts for the US economy

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk through some key stories this week:
The EC fines companies which ran a polychloroprene cartel,
Dow Chemical announces more restructuring moves,
UAP agrees to $2.6bn Agrium takeover
Evonik sells Rutgers coal tar business to Triton
LyondellBasell has levers to pull.

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Discussion of the latest developments in the Middle Eastern chemical industry with editor in chief Joe Chang and head of custom publishing John Baker

Anna Jagger talks to Geraldo Markus, export and market planning manager, Ipiranga Petroquimica about the mood in the South American chemical industry, reorganisation at Ipiranga now it is part of Braskem.

Manoel Carnauba, Braskem vice president for basic petrochemicals talks to Anna Jagger at APLA ’07 about the strength of the dollar, cracker shut downs in 2008, and increased domestic competition

Anna Jagger conversa com o Geraldo Markus sobre os temas importantes para a industria petroquimica na America Latina

Anna Jagger talks on the sidelines of Apla ’07 with Vitor Mallmann, vice president of Unipar about his firm’s plans for joint ventures.

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Anna Jagger talks on the sidelines of Apla ’07 with Vitor Mallmann, vice president of Unipar about his firm’s plans for joint ventures.

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Anna Jagger talks to Ed Gartner, director, world petrochemicals, SRI consulting about South American petrochemical markets.

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Each Year ICIS produces a list of the 40 most influential people in the global chemicals industry. If you think you know who our number 1 is this year, then email Simon.robinson@icis.com before 3 December 2007 with your answer and your name and address. If you win we’ll send you a bottle of champagne

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis talk about:
Mexico’s phoenix is dead – Garcia
Reach may hamper transhipments
Venezuela targets petchem investments
Shanghai Huayi to build $4bn base
French Strikes threaten chemicals
Oil price, Rhodia and price rises

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John Richardson of ICIS Chemical Business and Asian Chemical Connections presents the first of a regular series of shows about issues affecting the asian chemical industry.

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis discuss
BASF becoming a European Company
Potash Corp of Saskatchewan planing $1.8bn expansion
HowRegionalisation may affect Asia/US prices
Lanxess stock
Hexion’s third quarter profits
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Ivan Lerner and Feliza Mirasol discuss the Latin American chemicals industry.
Feliza looks at the pharma market and Ivan examines Argentina’s gas woes

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Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis discuss:
The ICI Akzo Nobel deal
Gazprom’s downstream aspirations
Bayer Materials Science job cuts
$88bn Chemicals M&A in the first 9 months of 07
Exxon’s Jurong site to the firm’s largest integrated plant

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Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis discuss:
Solutia getting ready to climb out of bankruptcy protection
IOC considering two projects
Reliance’s plans for PTA and polyester plants in India
Shells plans in Singapore
Exxon’s plans in China
Chinese vinyl exports to the Middle East

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To mark the first special issue published in collaboration with Japan's The Chemical Daily, ICIS Chemical Business' commodities editor Ivan Lerner discusses with editor-in-chief Joe Chang the ways in which the West has learnt from Japan, and vice versa

Commodities editor Ivan Lerner talks with senior editor Clay Boswell about the pharma and fine chemicals industry in Central and Eastern Europe.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Joe Chang, global editor of ICIS Chemical Business, speaks with Chris Cerimele, senior vice president at investment bank Lincoln International, on M&A in the fine chemicals industry and its impact on global sourcing

ICIS shipping editor Nick Savvides and markets editor Andy Brice discuss the latest from the chemicals shipping market, including this week the large quantities of methanol being shipped around the globe

Commodities editor Ivan Lerner and editor-in-chief Joe Chang discuss the turmoil in the financial makets and movement of the global stock markets

Simon Robinson and Graeme Patterson talk around key news stories in the global chemical industry this week.

Work starts on a new propylene pipeline in Germany
12 Countries have failed to implement the SevesoII directive, five years after it came into force
Petkim’s privatisation unfolds further with Azeri-Turkish-Bahraini consortium winning after protests in Turkey.

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This week we disclose the winners of ICIS Innovation Awards 2007 but first we talk about innovation in pharmaceuticals.

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Simon Robinson talks around OM Group buying most of Rockwood electronics businesses, the vulnerability of the US Chemical industry to insider terrorist threats and Dow Chemical postponing a meeting with analysts.

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Jennifer Holmgren, director of UOP Renewable Energy and Chemicals talks with Joe Chang, editor, ICIS Chemical business about her firm’s approach to biofuels… You can read more about biofuels on The Big Biofuels Blog. Check that out too.

ICIS Chemical business looks at the business of biofuels in a special issue. We look at some of the factors affecting the business .

Running order
Sabic is likely to head the bidding for DSM’s melamine business
Reliance approves $3bn cracker unit
DuPont says diversity is the key to biofuels
FBI says terrorists target chemicals plants

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Andy Brice talks to Carl Roache, markets editor of the ICIS Phenol-Acetone Europe report, at the EPCA meeting in Berlin

Andy Brice at EPCA in Berlin talks to Paul Hodges of International eChem about the impact of the subprime lending scare on the chemical sector

ICIS radio takes a look at counterfeit pharmaceuticals and recent activity in the Singapore life sciences hub

Simon Robinson and Nigel Davis discuss:
Ineos and Wilhemshaven, Ineos Nova and Sterling
PPG sells fine chem. business
Syngetna and Jubilant Orgaosyns in pyridienes deal
DuPont to boost Kevlar with $500m investment
Lanxess looks at expansion
First Iranian PE in Antwerp
Getting out of a sticky situation

Ivan Lerner presents
Top ten players in the pharma industry.
Top 100 chemical companies
Sneak peek at movers and shakers

Read more about these in the paper edition of ICIS Chemical Business of 17 September 2007, or online (subscription needed) at http://www.icis.com/v2/magazine/home.aspx