Chemical Week articles from May 2005

Chemical Week archives from May 2005

Watching the biologic clock.(viewpoint)(Biological products industry)
May 25, 2005... Chemical firms seem to have a problem with timing when it comes to the pharmaceutical intermediates business. Optimistic forecasts about pharma outsourcing sent a group of chemical firms rushing headlong into small-molecule contract...

Royal Group goes on the block.(Royal Group Technologies )(Cerberus Capital Partners)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) products maker Royal Group Technologies (Woodbridge, ON) says it has put itself up for sale, following private equity firm Cerberus Capital Partners' (New York) expressed interest in buying the company for C$14/share,...

Accident kills BASF employee.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... An employee was killed at BASF's Ludwigshafen plant on May 18 when he became trapped between two tank cars during a rail switch operation, the company says. Further details were not disclosed. The accident is currently under investigation,...

Crompton ups credit facility.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Crompton says it plans to amend its credit agreement to allow the total borrowing under the agreement to increase from $300 million, to $600 million. The increase will "provide greater financial flexibility following our pending merger with...

FMC receives credit commitments.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... FMC Corp. says it has received commitments from a group of banks for an $850-million, five-year credit agreement. The agreement will consist of a $500-million revolving credit facility and a $350-million term loan. Borrowings under the...

Senate postpones talks on MTBE, ANWR provisions.(methyl tert-butyl ether)(Arctic National Wildlife Reserve)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has cleared a pared down version of the omnibus energy bill, passed recently by the House, but has put off consideration of the bill's more controversial clauses until later. The clause to...

Former Bayer manager pleads guilty to price fixing.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... A former Bayer executive has agreed to plead guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fix the price of rubber chemicals, the Department of Justice (DOJ) says. Wolfgang Koch, a former product manager at Bayer, has agreed to serve four months in...

House bill would ban EPA use of human test data.(Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... The House has approved an amendment to an EPA spending bill that would prevent the agency from using or accepting scientific chemical exposure studies based on human test subjects. Representatives Hilda Solis (D., CA) and Tim Bishop (D., NY)...

Ashland and Marathon sign agreement with IRS for MAP deal.(Internal Revenue Service)(Marathon Ashland Petroleum L.L.C.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Ashland and Marathon Oil say they have executed a closing agreement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding Ashland's planned tax-free sale of its 38% interest in the companies' joint venture Marathon Ashland Petroleum (MAP), as...

DuPont to double investment in China; plans nonwovens in Korea.(E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... DuPont says it plans to double its investment in China through 2010 to a total of $1.2 billion for production, manufacturing, and R&D across several platforms. The company says its sales grew 32%, to $1.4 million in 2004 in China, including...

Plastics futures trading begins at London Metal Exchange.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Trading in futures contracts for three grades of polypropylene (PP), and one grade of linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE), began on the London Metal Exchange (LME) on May 27. Simon Heale, CEO of LME, anticipates a gradual build-up in...

Chatterjee negotiates to double stake in Haldia Petrochemicals.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... The state government of West Bengal, India says it is negotiating to sell its 43% stake in Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd. (HPL; Calcutta) to the Chatterjee Group (TCG; New York). Further details were not disclosed. The deal, which analysts say...

BP, Nova firm up Styrenic Polymers JV.(British Petroleum Company PLC)(Nova Chemicals Corp. )(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... BP and Nova Chemicals say they have signed binding agreements to merge their European styrenic polymers businesses into a previously announced 50-50 joint venture (CW,, Nov. 24, 2004, D. 6). The jv will take the name Nova Innovene, and is...

Malaysia's Titan Chemicals details IPO.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Petrochemicals producer Titan Chemicals (Kuala Lumpur) is scheduled to float a stake of about 25% in the first week of June via a previously announced initial public offering (IPO) of shares (CW, March 30, p. 18). The company says it aims to...

Solvay to cut jobs in France?(Solvay Chemicals Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Solvay will cut 250 jobs at its Tavaux, France site, 16% of the site's total, by 2009, according to a recent report in French newspaper Les Echos. Solvay did not return calls for comment by CW's press time on May 27. The company operates a...

Diosynth plant under threat.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Diosynth, the fine chemicals subsidiary of Akzo Nobel, will close a pharmaceutical intermediates production site at Buckhaven, U.K. by the end of 2006 unless a buyer can be found for the operation, according to local reports. The plant has 88...

Lanxess likely to close Dormagen ABS.(acrylonitrile butadiene styrene)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Lanxess is likely to close an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plant at Dormagen, Germany rather than an ABS unit at Tarragona, Spain, says Lanxess CEO Axel Heitmann. Lanxess recently announced that it would make a decision in the second...

Rhodia agrees on new credit line.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Rhodia says it has signed an agreement with five banks for a 300-million [euro] ($376 million) credit line that is due to mature in 2008. It replaces a syndicated credit line that Rhodia negotiated last year and was due to mature in 2006. The...

New Shell shares traded from July.(Royal Dutch Shell)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Shares in Royal Dutch Shell (The Hague), the Shell parent company to be created by the previously announced merger between holding companies Royal Dutch (The Hague) and Shell Transport and Trading Co. (London), will start trading on July 20,...

GM corn contamination in Ireland.(genetically modified)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... The Irish government says it has halted distribution of a shipment of gluten-free corn contaminated with Syngenta's Bacillus thringiensis (Bt10) genetically modified (GM) corn, which is not authorized in the European Unio (EU) (CW, April 27,...

Opinions divided on profit outlook for Petchems.
May 25, 2005... Huntsman president and CEO Peter Huntsman says he expects that lower energy and raw material costs could have a positive impact on second-quarter profit margins for many of the company's products lines. Analysts, however, say margins for...

CF Industries plans IPO; studies fertilizer JV in Trinidad.(initial public offerings)
May 25, 2005... CF Industries (Long Grove, IL) has filed a registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to $700 million, according to SEC filings. Terms of the offering, including the number of shares and offer price, were not...

Senate panel clears asbestos trust fund bill.(UNITED STATES/AMERICAS)
May 25, 2005... The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted 13-5 to pass legislation that would create a $140-billion trust fund to settle all current and future asbestos-related lawsuits. However, enthusiasm over passage of the trust fund bill was tempered by...

R&H to close powder coatings plant and consolidate U.S. production.(Rohm and Haas)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Rohm and Haas (R&H) says it plans to close its Wytheville, VA powder coatings plant in the next 6-9 months, consolidating production at its Warsaw, IN and Reading, PA plants. The closure will affect approximately 70 workers, many of who will...

Formosa to sell shares in U.S. units.(business & finance news)(Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Formosa Plastics (Taipei) says it plans to combine its four U.S. business units, and sell shares in the new unit to raise money for planned investments in China. The four Livingston, NJ-based units are Formosa Plastics Corporation USA,...

Local market insights spur global innovation: in this dialog, Scott Anthony, Partner of Innosight, exchanges view with John Lyon, General Manager, Life Sciences Industry, Dow Corning, about strategies to foster global innovation.(Interview)
May 25, 2005... How should global companies tailor their global products to local markets, cultures and opportunities? SA: The lesson many global companies have learned is that innovation is a lot more local than they originally thought. A number of...

DOJ serves subpoena to DuPont for PFOA data.(UNITED STATES/AMERICAS)(Department of Justice)(perfluorooctanoic acid)(E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.)
May 25, 2005... The Department of Justice's environmental crimes division has served DuPont with a grand jury subpoena ordering the company to produce documents on perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is used to make Teflon and other products. The subpoena...

Bayer closes TDI plant in West Virginia; Huntsman considers exiting market.(UNITED STATES/AMERICAS)(toluene diisocyanate)(Bayer MaterialScience L.L.C)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Bayer MaterialScience says it has closed its 100-million lbs/year toluene diisocyanate (TDI) plant at New Martinsville, WV, completing the previously announced restructuring and consolidation of its TDI business. Bayer says it will reassign...

W.R. Grace trial postponed in Montana.(business & finance news)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... A federal judge in Montana has granted W.R. Grace an additional four-month delay to prepare for trial in the asbestos case brought against the company and seven current and former executives by a federal grand jury. U.S. District Court Judge...

Degussa Awards major VOIP deal to AT&T.(Degussa AG, Voice over Internet Protocol)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Degussa says it has signed a five-year, $45-million outsourcing contract under which AT&T will become the sole provider of Degussa's worldwide data network, and domestic voice services in the U.S. AT&T will provide an Internet Protocol...

BP report cites plant worker failure.
May 25, 2005... BP has issued an interim report that blames lack of supervision and the failure of some employees to follow procedure for the March blast at Texas City, TX that killed 15 workers. The report drew criticism from union officials who say BP has...

Dow sets new North American truck shipment standards.(Dow Chemical)
May 25, 2005... Dow Chemical says it is aiming to improve its reliability and efficiency in truck transportation of liquid bulk and dry goods by establishing new standards for a variety of functions and services for its North American customers. Dow's new...

Huntsman MTBE outage.(methyl tert-butyl ether)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Huntsman shut its 15,000-bbls/day methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) plant at Port Neches, TX on May 24 due to a leak in a feed line, the company says in a filing with the Texas Commission for Environment. The plant is expected to resume...

Akzo signs Chelates deal with SQM.(Akzo Nobel, Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Akzo Nobel and Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM; Santiago) have formed a marketing agreement under which SQM will serve as exclusive distributor for Akzo's chelated micronutrients worldwide, excluding the U.S., Italy, and Spain. Terms...

Dow plans cracker projects in Qatar, Russia.(Dow Chemical)
May 25, 2005... Dow Chemical is planning to participate in separate projects to build steam crackers in Qatar and Russia, sources in those countries say. The plans form part of a strategy to gain access to low-cost feedstocks and supply emerging markets....

DEHP cleared of environmental risk.(di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... The results of a three-year European Union (EU) study show that use of the phthalate plasticizer DEHP does not present a risk to the aquatic environment, according to the European Chemicals Bureau (ECB; Brussels). ECB has responsibility for...

Shell may use new phenol process in Singapore.
May 25, 2005... Shell Chemicals may use a newly developed, proprietary phenol technology for the first time commercially at a plant in Singapore, Tan Ek Kia, v.p./ventures and development, Asia/Pacific and Mideast at Shell tells CW. The phenol plant would be...

Oman Oil, Iran's NPC ready deals for methanol, ammonia, PVC JV's.(National Petrochemical Co.)(polyvinyl chloride)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Oman Oil Co. (OOC; Muscat) and National Petrochemical Co. (NPC; Tehran) are preparing to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to build three joint venture petrochemical complexes, CW has learned. Two of the complexes will be based at...

Huntsman to make 'significant' epoxy capacity expansion.(new construction projects)(Huntsman Advanced Materials)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Huntsman Advanced Materials says it is expanding capacity for multifunctional epoxy resins at Monthey, Switzerland. The capacity of the plant was not disclosed. The company plans to bring the new capacity on line by mid-2006. "This expansion...

ExxonMobil to detail Qatar cracker project soon.(Qatar Petroleum)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum (Doha) have agreed to decide by mid-July on details of plans to build a previously announced ethane-based ethylene cracker and derivatives complex at Ras Laffan, ExxonMobil says. ExxonMobil says it expects the...

Mitsubishi boosts stake in Sharq Petchems project.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Mitsubishi Corp. has increased its stake in its Saudi Arabian petrochemicals joint venture, Sharq, from 7%, to 21%, according to media reports. Sharq is a jv between a consortium of Japanese companies, including Mitsubishi, the Japan Bank for...

Lanxess ups plastics production in China, Rubber in Germany.(new construction projects)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Lanxess says it will build a unit to produce a combined total of 20,000-m.t./year of its Durethan polyamide and Pocan polyester semi-crystalline plastics at Wuxi, China. The unit is due to come online in the first quarter of 2006. Capacity...

Indonesian firm plans oleochemicals plant.(Perkebunan Nusantara and Berla Group jointly build chemical plant.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... State-owned plantation company Perkebunan Nusantara (Bandar Lampung, Indonesia) says it will form a joint venture with Berla Group (Jakarta) to build an oleochemicals plant at Riau, Indonesia. The plant would cost $100 million, and produce...

LG Chem breaks ground on EDC-VCM plant in China.(ethylene dichloride/vinyl chloride monomer)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... LG Chem (Seoul) says its joint venture company Tianjin LG Bohai Chemical Co. (Tianjin, China) has broken ground on its previously announced project for an ethylene dichloride/vinyl chloride monomer (EDC-VCM) complex at Tianjin, China (CW,...

Biologics: speeding up production.(Cover Story)
May 25, 2005... Until recently, the main challenge for contract manufacturers of biologic drugs was how quickly to build a plant to supply a short but potentially lucrative market. Continuous investment to build biopharma units, including microbial...

Xcellerex unveils low cost, portable manufacturing units.(BIOLOGICS)
May 25, 2005... Contract biologics manufacturer Xcellerex (Marlborough, MA), a privately owned start-up company, is close to commercializing its FlexFactory low-cost portable, modular plants for biologics manufacture, CW has learned. 3he production plants...

Indian firm buys Novus Fine Chemicals.(Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Active pharma ingredients (API) and pharmaceuticals firm Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals (Chennai, India) says it has acquired Novus Fine Chemicals (Carlstadt, NJ) for an undisclosed sum. Malladi says it is one of the largest manufacturers...

Minakem acquires SEAC.(pharmaceuticals & fine chemicals)(Minakem Holding)(SEAC Chimie Fine)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Fine chemicals firm Minakem Holding (Beuvry-la-Foret, France) has acquired the custom synthesis assets of pharmaceutical intermediates business SEAC (Gennevilliers, France) from pesticides producer Nufarm (Melbourne) for 23 million [euro]...

Norbrook buys anaesthetics plant.(pharmaceuticals & fine chemicals)(Norbrook Laboratories Ltd)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Norbrook Laboratories (Newry, U.K.) says it has acquired two product lines and a production plant at Pardubice, Czech Republic from Aliachem (Pardubice) subsidiary Synthesia (Pardubice) for an undisclosed sum. The plant manufactures the...

Siegfried acquires U.S. firm.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Siegfried (Zofingen, Switzerland) says it has acquired Penick (Newark, NJ), a contract manufacturer of controlled active pharma ingredients (API), for $30 million. Most of Penick's products are APIs for pain-management drugs. The company owns...

Specialty firms target Eastern Europe; BASF opens tech center.(Helios)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... BASF is the latest specialty chemical manufacturer to expand its presence in Eastern Europe, with the opening of a technical service center for refinery chemicals at Gubkin State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow). Demand for performance...

P&G signs oleochemical supply contract in Indonesia.(Procter & Gamble Chemicals signed contract with Domba Mas Group)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Procter & Gamble Chemicals (P&G) says it has signed contracts worth about $1.8 billion to purchase the entire output of an oleochemical site being built by Domba Mas Group (Jakarta) at Kuala Tanjung, Indonesia, over 10 years. The products...

JSR expands LCD materials in Taiwan and Korea.(liquid crystal display)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... JSR Corp. (Tokyo) says it will start construction of a liquid crystal display (LCD) materials plant at Yunlin, Taiwan this month through its newly established subsidiary, JSR Micro Taiwan. The [yen] 2.5-billion ($23 million), 50,000-sq meter...

Flavors firm to take TFF private.(FFG Industries, Technology Flavors and Fragrances Inc.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Privately held flavors and fragrance ingredient manufacturer FFG Industries (Upper Saddle River, NJ) says it has launched a tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Technology Flavors and Fragrances (TFF:...

Sumitomo to buy Dow LEP unit.(Sumitomo Chemical, Dow Chemical's light-emitting polymers business)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Sumitomo Chemical says it will purchase Dow Chemical's light-emitting polymers (LEP) business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sumitomo produces fluorescent and phosphorescent LEPs. LEPs are used in applications including...

Solvay forms new products unit.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Solvay says it has formed SOLVAir products group, a portfolio of chemicals and technologies that target removal of industrial pollutants. Products include hydrogen peroxide, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, and sodium sulfite. Solvay says the...

Specialties price watch.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Eastman Chemical says it is raising list and off-list prices for several products. These include 3 cts/lb increases on certain tall fatty acids sold in 410-1b drums, and 2 cts/lb for bulk shipments; as well as 4 cts/lb increases on certain...

EG plummets on China weakness.(ethylene glycol)
May 25, 2005... Rising inventories and weakness in Chinese polyester markets have dragged down ethylene glycol (EG) spot prices by about 30% in the past eight weeks, market sources say. The bid-offer range for spot EG parcels was quoted at $650-$700/m.t. c&f...

Dow declares force majeure on VAM.(Dow Chemical, vinyl acetate monomer)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Dow Chemical has declared force majeure on vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) due to an unexpected outage at its 750-million lbs/year VAM unit at Texas City, TX. Dow says the unit was hit by a storm on May 8, which caused "significant damage to...

Yara, Bunge plan phosphate mine.(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Yara (Oslo) says it has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Bunge to develop a jointly owned phosphate rock deposit at Anitapolis, Brazil, Yara says. The companies will conduct a feasibility study soon, Yara says. Construction could begin...

Sabic commissions acetic acid plant.(Saudi Basic Industries Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Sabic says its affiliate lbn Rushd has commissioned a 34,000-m.t./year acetic acid plant at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. The plant is the first based on an ethane oxidation technology developed by Sabic, the company says. The conventional route to...

Solvay seeks soda ash hike.(Solvay Chemicals)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Solvay Chemicals has announced a $151ton off-list price increase on soda ash, effective immediately or as contracts allow. The increase brings Solvay's cumulative increases in the past year to $451ton, and each increase is being implemented...

Ashland buys distribution unit.(Ashland Distribution Co.)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Ashland Distribution has acquired Albis's North American plastics distribution business, based in Houston, says Hank Waters, president of Ashland Distribution. The acquired business distributes commodity chemicals and engineering resins,...

CW price report.(COMMENTARY)
May 25, 2005... High downstream inventories and continued soft demand from China have dampened petrochemical prices in the past two weeks, market sources say. Olefins prices in the U.S. gave in to easing demand and higher supply. Ethylene contract...

Feinstein bill asserts states' rights to approve LNG terminals.(Dianne Feinstein, liquefied natural gas)
May 25, 2005... Senators Dianne Feinstein (D., CA) and Olympia Snowe (R., ME) have introduced legislation that would give states joint jurisdiction with the federal government to approve the siting of onshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. The...

Bill stops EPA rule to increase pesticide fees.(Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... An emergency spending bill passed earlier this month by Congress contains a provision that prevents EPA from increasing the fees it charges manufacturers for the agency's work on pesticide exposure risk assessments, as required by the Federal...

Report assesses MTBE liability costs.(methyl tert-butyl ether)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... A report by the Prudential Equity Group (New York) on the gasoline additive methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) says the estimated cleanup costs for MTBE-related spills are likely far lower than the widely cited estimated $29 billion. That amount...

IECA testifies on natural gas pricing.(Industrial Energy Consumers of America)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... The Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) testified recently at the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, on the "impact of high energy costs to the American consumer." The hearing was not linked to any bill pending in...

Petchem upturn lifts Lyondell: extracting synergies from millennium acquisition.(Lyondell Chemical Co.)(Company Profile)
May 25, 2005... The upturn in the petrochemical cycle is reaping dividends for Lyondell Chemical (Houston). The company returned to the black last year, reporting full-year net income of $54 million, versus a $302-million loss the previous year, on sales up...

Total Petrochemicals.(key changes)(Appointed Mark Douglass and Stan Beisert)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... TOTAL PETROCHEMICALS has appointed Stan Beisert plant manager at the company's Bayport, TX polyethylene plant. Besiert was previously operations manager at the Bayport plant. The company has also appointed Mark Douglass as site manager at its...

Dow Chemical.(key changes)(Appointed Mike Lewis)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... DOW CHEMICAL has named Mike Lewis as North American sales manager for Angus Chemical and Dow Biocides. Angus is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical.

Wacker Chemical.(key changes)(Promoted Jennifer Borton-Rupert)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... WACKER CHEMICAL has Stan Beisert promoted Jennifer Borton-Rupert to director/controlling. Borton-Rupert will be responsible for directing the overall financial controlling activities for the company. She was previously business unit...

Buhler North America.(key changes)(Rene Steiner )(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... BUHLER NORTH AMERICA has elected Rene Steiner as president.

Cabot.(key changes)(Appointed John A. Shaw)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... John A. Shaw will step down as executive v.p. and CFO for CABOT at the end of calendar year 2005. Shaw has been Cabot's CFO since January 2002.

EBI Consulting.(key changes)(Appointed John Doring)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... John Doring has been named a senior program director for EBI CONSULTING's process engineering group. Doring was previously a construction project manager.

The Chatham Group.(key changes)(Appointed Carolyn Reilly )(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... THE CHATHAM GROUP has appointed Carolyn Reilly as account executive.

Georgia Gulf.(key changes)(Appointed Paul D. Carrico)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... GEORGIA GULF has promoted Paul D. Carrico to v.p./polymers, and Mark J. Seal to v.p./chemicals group.

Diosynth Biotechnology.(key changes)(Appointed Frank J. Tielens)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Frank J. Tielens has been appointed president and CEO of DIOSYNTH BIOTECHNOLOGY. Tielens was previously general manager of Organon Germany.

OM Group.(key changes)(Appointed Leo J. Daley)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... OM GROUP has elected Leo J. Daley to its board of directors. Daley was v.p./finance and CFO at Air Products and Chemicals until he retired in 2003.

Air Products.(key changes)(Appointed Charles Noski and William Davis)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... AIR PRODUCTS has elected Charles Noski and William Davis to its board of directors. Noski was formerly vice chairman at AT&T. Davis was previously chairman, president, and CEO of RR Donnelley.

Chevron Phillips Chemical.(key changes)(Appointed Greg Hanggi)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL has promoted Greg Hanggi to v.p./ environment, health, and safety.

Atherogenics.(Appointed key changes and Robert D. Small)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... ATHEROGENICS has named Philip J. Krape as senior director/business development, and Robert D. Small as senior director/biostatistics and data management. Krape was previously senior director/business development for aaiPharma. Small was...

Pioneer.(key changes)(Appointed Richard L. Urbanowski)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... PIONEER has elected Richard L. Urbanowski to its board of directors. Urbanowski was president and COO of ISK Biosciences until he retired in 1998.

Bayer Technology Services.(key changes)(Appointed Achim Noack)(Brief Article)
May 25, 2005... Achim Noack has been named managing director of BAYER TECHNOLOGY SERVICES.