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A company profile for Japan-based chemical company Asahi Kasei which provides services in fibers & textiles, petrochemicals, performance polymers, performance materials, consumables, battery separators, and electronic devices is presented.

Focuses on the transformation of DSM from a diversified chemical firm into a specialties maker under the Vision 2005 program. Issues facing the company's biologics business; Successful research and development initiatives of the company that led to enzymes that serve as additives for food and beverages; Impact of strong demand on the company's performance materials business.

The CW 300 managed huge margin gains in 1994, with net profits up 52%, to $65.2 billion, on a 6% sales gain, to $1.15 trillion. After-tax margins increased from 4.0% [...]

After three down quarters, the CW300 registered a bottom-line boost in the first quarter. Margins also improved slightly, with net income up 3.2% from first-quarter 1993 and sales up 2.8%. [...]

Reversing the recessionary trend, second-quarter profits for the CW300 rose 5.6% above their prior-year level. That compares with a 16% decline in the first quarter, and more serious dips for [...]

The article focuses on fourth-quarter financial results from North American commodity and diversified companies, with US ethylene producers benefiting from improved margins, while other sectors faced challenges amidst a slow recovery in Europe and China. It mentions despite LyondellBasell reporting lower results attributed to declining gasoline crack spreads and soft demand, Exxon Mobil saw sequential improvement in its chemical segment earnings.

Many Happy Returns Binding statistics as their golf handicaps. But with all that cash flowing into the business, it is hard to believe that earnings per share (EPS)--which is still [...]

The CW300 has registered its third consecutive quarter with a rising bottom line. Earnings for the CW300 composite increased 61% in the third quarter, with sales up 9%, resulting in [...]

The bottom line slipped 6% for the companies included in the CW300 composite for fourth-quarter 1993. This follows the moderate downtrend set in the second and third quarters. In contrast, [...]

Chemical process industries (CPI) profits showed even greater year-over-year declines in this year's third quarter than they did in the second. Composite earnings for the CW 300 dipped 29%, vs. [...]

With the annual reports out and the 1990 figures audited and final, the chemical Week 300 all-industry composite for 1990 showed a responsible 11% sales gain and a modest 4% [...]

The article reports on the performance of the CW75 Index for the week ending April 15, 2008. The index trailed broader market indexes rising less than one percent. Diversified chemical stocks were flat, and specialty chemical shares fell 1.9 percent. Fertilizer stocks were among the leaders because of analysts' bullish market outlook.

SECOND-QUARTER EARNINGS WERE down at most industrial chemical and diversified companies, due to lower sales volumes, higher raw material costs, and unfavorable currency exchange rates. DuPont posted net income before [...]

THE LATEST BASIC AND DIVERSIFIED chemicals makers to report their second-quarter earnings had a mixed showing, although most mainstream chemical producers increased earnings during the quarter (table). All the major [...]

The deals also provide pure-play specialty chemical firms with the edge they need to remain competitive in their core operations against large-scale diversified companies with significant specialty chemical operations including [...]

The extent to which specialties companies are squeezed between large diversified companies supplying raw materials, and larger customers, is a familiar concept, but it is dramatically brought home by the [...]

THE M&A PACE WILL SLOW THIS YEAR, SAYS PETER YOUNG, PRESIDENT of Young & Partners (New York). Though there were fewer transactions than in 1996, the higher prices will probably [...]

Specialty chemical companies posted the strongest earnings gains in the second quarter, with most firms beating analysts' consensus estimates. Basic chemicals were mixed, while diversified companies' results were mostly below [...]

Although higher costs and weak demand conspired to squeeze margins throughout the chemical process industries, the large players remained above the fray through the second quarter. According to S&P CompuStat [...]

The cw300 showed a remarkable 17% top-line gain in the first quarter, with earnings increasing an even more spectacular 60%. All 19 groups had double-digit gains on the bottom line. [...]

The CW300 registered a whopping 80% gain on the bottom line in fourth-quarter 1994, marking the first time in quite a while that earnings made steady progress throughout the year. [...]

Chemical profits surged upward in the second quarter. The CW300 registered a sol id 20% gain on the bottom line; sales edged up only 4%. Sixteen of 19 groups showed [...]

Composite short-term cash pay for 64 chemical CEOs increased 6% in 1993, according to CW's annual survey, even though pretax profits fell 15%. A 6% pay raise is well in [...]

With audited reports in and annual reports out, the bottom line for the CW300 eroded 4% in 1993, to $44.1 billion, excluding extraordinary items. Sales were flat, at $1,114 billion. [...]

Net income for the CW300 composite fell 1.3% in the third quarter, and sales dipped 2.2%. This is the second consecutive quarter registering an earnings drop, following a full year [...]

Net income for the CW300 composite fell 12% below last year's second-quarter bottom line, while sales increased a meager 2.3%. The negative comparison reverses a year-long trend: four consecutive quarters [...]

Europe posed problem for multinationals The CW300 composite earnings increased a respectable 16.8% in first-quarter 1993, despite disinflationary pricing and economic weakness in Europe and Japan holding top line gains [...]

With companies' 1992 audited results in, the CW300's composite sales increased 3%, to $1,134 billion; net income (excluding a large number of extraordinary items) increased 4%, to $45.8 billion; and [...]

Composite profits for the CW300 declined 16% in the first quarter of 1992, despite some signs of a modest economic recovery under way. Industrial chemical company earnings dropped a composite [...]

Chemical process industries (CPI) profits did not recover in the last quarter of 1991. In part because oftough comparisons with pre-Gulf War price and volume leves in fourth-quarter 1990, composite [...]

Commodity and diversified companies posted strong third-quarter volumes but generally weak earnings, as high feedstock costs and lack of pricing power pressured results. Dow Chemical's cost-cutting program made it one [...]

You don't have to go far in the chemical industry these days to hear how providing services as well as products to customers is a goad thing, and there are [...]

Presents the 2002 first-quarter market performance of chemical makers in the chemical industry. Comparisons among basic, diversified and specialty chemical companies; Company which posted one of the highest gains; Data on earnings of diversified companies' chemical segments.

Details the first quarter financial reports of several chemical companies in the United States for 1998. First quarter income of Dow Chemical; Factors which low earnings in specialty chemicals can be attributed; Statistical information on earnings of diversified companies' chemical segments.

Looks at the consumer price index (CPI) sales of various chemical and related companies in the United States in 1997. Sales of industrial chemical makers; Performance of diversified companies; Sales of fertilizers.

Reports on the sales of United States chemical industry for the third-quarter of 1997. Financial data of chemical process industry (CPI); Earnings of industrial chemical makers; Declines recorded by Dow Chemical; Diversified companies that show strong growth in sales.

Reveals that the Industrial Chemical segment's first quarter aggregate net income slipped but the largest producers fared well. Where the biggest surprises in the segment came from; Aggregate net income of diversified companies; Overview of the battle for supremacy in water treatment chemicals.

The article discusses chemical company AkzoNobel's sale of its paper chemicals business to chemical industry group Kemira in 2014, excluding its pulp bleaching and its colloidal silica businesses. Comments from Kemira president and chief executive officer (CEO) Jari Rosendal, AkzoNobel CEO Ton Büchner, and AkzoNobel’s executive committee member Werner Fuhrmann on AkzoNobel's portfolio, AkzoNobel's business strategy, and Kemira's diversification, respectively, are presented.

Some niche sectors of the battered $30-billion global adhesives and sealants market are showing resilience, and major players are clinging to these niches in the face of the persistent global [...]

Through the early 1980s, disappointing returns on highly cyclical commodity chemical operations made big, diverse companies lose their appetite for bulk chemical businesses. Ensuing restructurings created one of the busiest [...]

The first-quarter earnings season is expected to be a mixed bag for U.S. chemical companies, analysts say. Results may be better than expected across certain sectors, including agchems, despite recent [...]

Economic recession conditions and second quarter earnings in 2012 are discussed, focusing on chemical companies such as Dow Chemical, DuPont, LyondellBasell Industries, and Eastman Chemical. World economic activity, economic conditions in Europe, and unemployment are discussed. A chart of economic recession effects for diversified companies is presented, including companies such as Airgas, Methanex, and Compass Minerals.

PPG Industries reported fourth-quarter earnings up 12%, to $160 million (96 cts/ share), excluding charges of $3 million (2 cts/share). The consensus of analysts' estimates was for $1.02/share as reported [...]

Bankers expect chemical sector M&A activity to be brisk this year, especially during the first half of the year, and that 2007 generally will be a strong seller's market. Sellers [...]

Rediscovering the power of innovation has become a popular rallying cry in the chemical industry. The underlying idea is that innovative new products and services can deliver growth and higher [...]

Third-quarter results were up at most basic and diversified firms, mostly due to higher volumes, Firms caution, however, that sales and earnings growth is expected to be slow in the [...]

Chemical firms would have reported sharply lower earnings last year if they reported executive stock options as expenses, analysts say. Companies are only required to list the impact of options [...]

The rate of M&A in the chemical industry has slowed since the end of 2000, reflecting high debt levels and low earnings among chemical companies, which has made borrowing money [...]

Leading economic indicators and results of the first-quarter earnings season indicate that recovery should become more pronounced as the year progresses, led by a rebound in the U.S. economy, analysts [...]

THIS WEEK'S COVER STORY (P. 19) TAKES A LOOK AT THE INNOVATION ISSUE IN THE SPECIALTY chemicals sector. There has been much discussion about what ails specialties. ACC figures show [...]