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19 FINE
CHEMICALS
Fine Chemicals

Proves Good Therapy

Drug Industry Flux

TRONOX SEEKS CHAPTER 11 PROTECT^ION SUNOCO TO SHUT BAYPORT, TX POLYPROPYLENE UNIT INDUSTRY SETS WISH LIST FOR OBAMA ADM^IN^IS^TRAT^ION

The pharmaceutical industryisgoing througha period of transition withmanymajor drug companies restructuring

to cut costs. Fine chemicals and contract manufacturing service suppliers say this year will be challenging, but that they will benefit from growing opportunities, including an increase in outsourcing contracts.

Cover Photo: SAFC.

United States/Americas

7 Schulman’s earnings slide

7

Digest

● Albemarle,OptiFuel Technology team up in additives

● SAFC to supply atomic layer deposition materials to ASM

● Frutarom acquires Oxford Chemicals

31 Basic Chemicals
& Plastics

Ethylene swings up amid capacity outages

Sunoco to close polypropylene plant

7 GM plans lithium battery facility;

Taps LG Chem for cell supply

9 ACC’s chief economist expects a severe, prolonged downturn

10 Industry seeks cooperation from Obama Administration

11 DOT finalizes tank car standards

11 Rhodia acquires surfactant manufacturer McIntyre Group

34
Product Focus: Carbon Black
35
CW Price Report

38 CW75

37 COMPANIES

ExxonMobil Chemical says the economic and industry downturns are having little long-term impact on its operations as it continues with an expansion program to boost Asia and Mideast capacity.

Europe/Mideast

13 Sabic to replace Kuwait in petchem jv with Dow

13 Many BASF plants remain closed

CW75 Index

January 13 Week Ago Quarter Ago Year Ago

149.35

157.62

175.28

248.11

*Jan. 1, 2002 = 100.

Chemical stocks fall for the week

Asia/Pacific

16 Protests force relocation of Chinese p-xylene project

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16 Idemitsu cuts polycarbonate production

16 Air Products builds CO coldbox

39 CW75 2008 Review

Index loses 39.4%

4 Newsbriefs

● LyondellBasell to restart olefins unit

● PolyOne cuts staff, closes compounds plant

● Texas Petrochemicals idles units

● European Parliament votes to approve revised EU pesticide laws

● Invista to shutter U.K. nylon facility

● BASF to close Korean BDO and THF complex

● PolymerLatex to mothball U.K. plant

6 Top of the Week

USCAP offers Congress a blueprint for climate action

Tronox files for Chapter 11 protection

Departments

3 Viewpoint

40 Meetings

17 New Construction

● Kuokuang relocates planned petchem complex

● Ineos still eager to expand Norwegian cracker

● Honam’s Qatar ethylene jv delayed another year

● PTT Phenol plans capacity expansion

29 Specialty
Chemicals

Non-GMO food project starts third-party auditing program

Features

36 Marketplace

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