Table of Contents

Cover Story

Engineering & Construction: Retaining Momentum

Newsbriefs

Top of The Week

Kemira and Rockwood Merge TiO₂ Businesses

Bill Aims to Overhaul U.S. Chemical Policy

Business & Finance News

United States/Americas

FMC to Acquire ISP's Hydrocolloid Ingredients Unit

Caustic Soda Prices to Rise Further?

Sabic Innovative Plastics Names New CEO

Air Products Acquires Sulfur Recovery Firm

DuPont Urges UN to Give Agriculture Higher Priority

Dow Corning Opens Solar Center in Michigan

Jevic Closes and Files for Bankruptcy; Workers Sue

GHG Legislation may Drive up Petchem Costs

Quaker to Triple Capacity at Middletown, OH

Europe/Mideast

Iran Aims to Overtake Saudi Arabia in Petchems

Asia/Pacific

Japanese Firms Report Varying Annual Results

New Construction Projects

Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals

Cambridge Major Labs to Build U.S. Facility

Wacker's Secretion Technology Studied

Cambrex Names a New President and CEO

Specialty Chemicals

U.S. Markets Drag on Adhesives Firms' Profits

Personal Care M&A Catches The Green Wave

Basic Chemicals & Plastics

Thousand-Dollar Naphtha Crunches Margins

Soda Ash Faces Higher Prices, Tight Supply

Product Focus: Butanediol

CW Price Report

Conferences

Biofilms: Building a Case Against Clever Bacteria

CW75

Chemical Stocks Rise on Positive Earnings

Departments

Viewpoint

Key Changes

Vital Statistics: Growth Slows

Features

Marketplace

Chemical Week - May 26, 2008 Index