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Dupont again emerged on top of the rankings in the 1996 CW annual bil- lion-dollar club, despite a decline in the company's chemical sales to $23.3 billion. The giant was [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

The deadly cloud of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas that leaked from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India 10 years ago still casts a shadow over the chemical industry. The [...]

ALBEMARLE HAS WARNED THAT SECOND-QUARTER EARNINGS PER share (EPS) will be 30 cts-35 cts/share, well below the 42 cts/share consensus of analysts' estimates reported by First Call (Boston). Albemarle earned [...]

GENERAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIAL Products' credit rating has been downgraded by Standard & Poor's, which cited 'continued weakness in the company's key markets,' mainly soda ash and calcium [...]

BORDEN CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS (BCP), DEXTER, IMC GLOBAL, AND RPM have been downgraded by Moody's Investors Service (New York). Moody's lowered BCP's senior debt rating to B2 from B1 because [...]

MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE (NEW YORK) HAS RECENTLY LOWERED credit ratings for Rhodia and Hercules. Rhodia's debt rating dropped from Baa1 to Baa2 after its $550-million, all-debt financed acquisition of fine [...]

EU COMMITTEE SLAMS PRIORITY LIST The European Union's (EU) attempt to compile a priority list of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) for further risk assessment is 'scientifically inadequate,' says a recent report [...]

Bayer has developed a product rating system, Bayer Eco-Check, which aims to ensure the sustainability of its products. The system rates product performance in six areas--economic value, health risks, environmental [...]

A DISPUTE AMONG the four members of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB; Washington) has reached a stalemate that could lead Congress to disband the board after [...]

Senator Christopher Bond (R., MO) has proposed a bill to grant targeted Superfund liability relief to businesses with less than 100 employees. The bill is backed by the National Federation [...]

THE LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS (LCV; WASHINGTON) SAYS IT has pledged $6 million to defeat Congressional candidates that have poor overall voting records on environmental issues. LCV targeted 13 candidates [...]

ICI ranked in the top 20% of U.K. companies for its environmental management performance in Business in the Community's (BIC; London) 1999 index of Corporate Environmental Engagement. It is the [...]

Moody's investors service (new York) says it may downgrade Hercules' debt ratings as a result of its recent announcements, including the planned sale of its resins and fibers businesses, and [...]

Standard & Poor's (New York) has reduced Nalco Chemical's long-term corporate credit and senior unsecured debt ratings to single-A from single-A-plus. Nalco has been on credit watch since July, following [...]

Moody's Investors Service (New York) confirmed the Baa3 senior unsecured debt ratings of Dainippon Ink and Chemicals (DIC), following the proposed acquisition of TotalFina's inks division, Coates. DIC's Sun Chemical [...]

Moody's Investors Service (New York) has assigned a B1 rating to Georgia Gulf's $250-million senior subordinated notes, due 2007. The notes will be privately placed to institutional investors. Moody's also [...]

Moody's investors service (new york) has downgraded Hoechst following its plan to spin off its industrial chemicals, which will be held by Celanese. Hoechst is spinning off Celanese to shareholders [...]

Of the world's top 50 chemical and petrochemical producers, Henkel has the least impact on the environment, according to a study by the Hamburg Umwelt Institute (HUI; Hamburg, Germany), an [...]

Moody's Investors Service (New York) has lowered LaRoche Industries' debt rating. Moody's says that LaRoche's fiscal 1999 and first-quarter 2000 operating income does not cover debt interest expense and it [...]

Moody's Investors Service (New York) downgraded Dow Chemical's senior unsecured debt by two notches last week, citing decreased profits, the company's increased debt load, and asbestos liability concerns. Moody's also [...]

BASF has been named the most innovative company in the chemical industry in a survey in the latest edition of Fortune magazine--albeit with a score of just 6.4 our of [...]

The strong u.s. dollar hurt sales growth for non-U.S. companies in 1997, especially those in Asia, when expressed in U.S. currency. U.S. firms also had lower export sales but were [...]

Despite lackluster sales growth and weak pricing, the U.S. chemical industry experienced a welcome resurgence in cash flow last year. According to a Chemical Week survey, for 30 leading producers, [...]

The first-year report card for the Clinton Administration's EPA shows uneven marks from a chemical industry that has been alternately heartened and buffeted by the agency's actions and rhetoric. EPA [...]