Table of Contents

Cover Story

Arkema: Moving to a Higher-Margin Portfolio

Newsbriefs

Top of the Week

Dow to cut 11% of workforce

Chemtura names Craig Rogerson as CEO

Business & Finance News

United States/Americas

Praxair reduces earnings forecast, cuts 6% of jobs

Nova CEO Lipton to retire; Pappas named successor

3M eliminates jobs, lowers earnings outlook

EPA drops plans to change Clean Air rules

Fertilizer firms plan production cutbacks

Huntsman suiting up for trials

Eastman Chemical names Rogers as next CEO

Europe/Mideast

Shell continues shift to Asia and Mideast

Evonik in Ras Tanura talks; IPO still planned

Asia/Pacific

Japanese refining merger to impact petchems

Mitsubishi eyes olefins restructuring

New Construction Projects

Conferences

Mideast Challenges and Opportunities

Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals

Evonik hones pharma focus with sale of U.K. unit

Chemists develoop two-step chiral tertiary alcohol route

BASF opens API lab in India

Specialty Chemicals

European group drafts cosmetics stanadards

Digest:

Basic Chemicals & Plastics

Butadiene players mull first-quarter contracts

Chinese ethylene growth will slow in 2009

Shintech expands chlor-alkali plant

CW Price Report

Regulatory

Bush officials not likely to finalize OSHA rule change

GAO details finding from EU ETS and Kyoto Protocol

Groups sue CPSC to reverse toy ban decision

CW75

Chemical stocks make gains

Departments

Viewpoint

Management

Key Changes

Leading Indicator

Features

Marketplace

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