Dow Chemical is well positioned to gain in the plastics and specialty chemicals sectors.
Then he moved to Betz Laboratories, a specialty chemicals maker later acquired by General Electric.
Balvant, who remains chairman, started out as a small trader in specialty chemicals in 1954.
Due to their wide range of applications, specialty chemicals demand tends to strongly follow global economic conditions.
Every time, the best answer seemed to be the four specialty chemicals businesses owned by his previous employer.
The company recreated itself from a low-margin, commodity-driven, regional oil refiner into a less-cyclical, higher-margin, global specialty chemicals company.
Specialty chemicals are high-value chemicals that are commercially produced for specialized industry applications.
The company is a global manufacturer of petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and oil products.
The world's chemicals industry is consolidating into a few huge players: witness the merger announced between Clariant and Ciba Specialty Chemicals.
Performance and Safety Materials Market Share: The division has a current market share of about 3.5% of the global specialty chemicals market.
DuPont de Nemours is involved in science and technology in a range of disciplines including high-performance materials, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
Profitability has been improved thanks to a cyclical upturn driven by demand from emerging economies and a strategy of placing greater emphasis on specialty chemicals.
Then he moved to Betz Laboratories, a specialty chemicals maker later acquired by General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).
They are business services provider Automatic Data ( ADP), global electrical equipment maker Emerson Electric ( EMR) and paint and specialty chemicals supplier PPG Industries ( PPG).
Most of the current market for plant-based chemicals and polymers lies in specialty chemicals used in soaps and detergents, says consulting firm Nexant in White Plains, N.
Bayer has four pillars: healthcare, polymers, agriculture and specialty chemicals.
You might think that as chief growth officer of a global specialty chemicals company, I probably spend most of my workday scouting for ways to drive revenue growth through new chemistry.
Today Huntsman is listed and has moved into specialty chemicals, with operations spread across Asia in 22 different countries, not only in China but also in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand.
The planned merger of Clariant and Ciba Specialty Chemicals , which would have formed the world's biggest specialty chemicals group, was called off after the two firms decided that its risks outweighed the benefits.
Plus, FMC sells recession-resistant chemicals like coatings for pills, and a third of its revenue comes from specialty chemicals, including lithium, the raw material for the next generation of electric-vehicle batteries ( click here for related story).
At its peak, the firm was an industrial powerhouse in the UK with interests in pharmaceuticals, food additives and dyes, but since the 1990s it has suffered cost pressures and refocused the business on paints and specialty chemicals.
Basic Plastics is the largest, responsible for 22.5% of sales, followed by Performance Products (20.9%), Performance Systems (12.4%), Health and Agricultural Sciences (10.2%), Hydrocarbons and Energy (9.6%), Electronic and Specialty Chemicals (9.4%), Coatings and Infrastructure (8.9%), and Basic Chemicals (5.3%).
At first Amgen tried using genetic engineering to create organisms that would extract oil from shale, man-made proteins that would make chickens grow faster and new specialty chemicals such as a cloned indigo, a substitute for the natural dye used to color blue jeans.
Kodak noted that in addition to the commercial, packaging and functional printing and enterprise services businesses, it also continues to own and operate the Consumer Inkjet, Entertainment Imaging, Commercial Film and Specialty Chemicals businesses, given the company's expertise, capabilities and strong customer relationships in these markets, as well as their combined cash-generating capability.
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Among them were specialty-chemicals maker Evonik Industries AG and insurance company Talanx AG both based in Germany as well as Russian telecom firm MegaFon and investment-bid vehicle Tungsten Corp.
From it come the nitrates used in SQM's specialty fertilizers and chemicals.
The chief executive of Santiago, Chile-based Sociedad Qumica y Minera de Chile S.A. spends half his time on the road, drumming up business for this manufacturer of specialty fertilizers and chemicals.
This includes hauling new autos, hazardous chemicals, and other high-margin products in specialty train cars.
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