Table of Contents

Cover Story

Canada: Pinning Hopes On the West

Newsbriefs

Top of the Week

U.S. Lawmakers Ban Phthlates in Some Products

Second-Quarter Profits Up at Most Specialty Firms

Business & Finance News

United States/Americas

Higher Volumes, Prices Lift Diversified Firms' Earnings

PolyOne to Shutter Eight Manufacturing Sites

Fertilizer Firms' Results Rise on Price Increases

Rockwood to Acquire Nalco's Finishing Technologies Unit

Vestar Capital to Buy U.S. Soap Business of Unilever

Huntsman's Operating Profits Drop; Hexion Battle Goes On

Consol Energy Plans Coal-to-Liquids Plant in West Virginia

Europe/Mideast

Costs, Exchange Rates Weigh on Eurpean Earnings

Asia/Pacific

Results Vary Among Leading Firms

Rohm and Haas Expands in Taiwan

PolyOne to Build Production Facility, Lab in India

New Construction Projects

Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals

Roche to Acquire Two Firms in North America

Teva Buys U.S. Generics Drugmaker

Specialty Chemicals

Overseas Sales Help Flat U.S. Coatings Markets

Basic Chemicals & Plastics

Higher PP Prices May Help PS Market

Methanex Eyes Coal Power

CW Price Report

Regulatory

EPA Bans Carbofuran; Sued Over Endosulfan

BASF Takes Europe to Court Over GM Potato

Europe Rejects Appeal for Use of Pesticide

Companies

Singapore's PCS Seeks Added Value

Conference

Focusing On Next-Generation Semiconductor Wafers

CW75

Chemical Stocks Decline on Diminished Earnings

Departments

Viewpoint

Key Changes

Vital Statistics

Manufacturing Advances

Features

Marketplace

Special Section

Annual Global Forecast Conference

Chemical Week - August 4, 2008 Index