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The article offers information on the stabilization of chemical demand in early 2024, as stated by Dow Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Fitterling.

The article offers information on Chemours naming Denise Dignam as permanent chief executive officer and president, as well as a member of the board of directors.

The article focuses on Olin Corp appointing Kenneth Lane, a former LyondellBasell executive, as its new president and CEO, succeeding Scott Sutton and includes Lane's appointment, Sutton's transition, and additional leadership changes at LyondellBasell.

The article focuses on International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) announcing a 50% dividend cut to reduce debt and improve financial flexibility under new CEO Erik Fyrwald, who aims to return the company to year-over-year growth in 2024. Topics include IFF's forecast for 2024 adjusted operating EBITDA, impairment to its nourish segment, divestitures post-DuPont merger, and Fyrwald's strategy to prioritize individual business performance before focusing on synergies.

The article focuses on Sabic CEO's anticipation of a challenging petrochemical market in 2024, attributed to sluggish demand and operational adjustments. Topics include Sabic's strategy to enhance competitiveness in Europe amid market difficulties, the company's comprehensive portfolio review to identify avenues for sustained value creation, and its planned divestment of assets like Saudi Iron & Steel Co. (Hadeed) to streamline operations and manage capital expenditure.

The article reports that Erik Fyrwald will become the new CEO of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) effective February 6, succeeding Frank Clyburn. Fyrwald's appointment led to a spike in IFF shares initially, reflecting investor optimism, although they have since stabilized. Fyrwald brings extensive experience from leading agchems firm Syngenta and other executive roles, positioning IFF for sustainable structural improvement.

The article announces that Manabu Chikumoto, currently the executive vice president and head of basic materials at Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp., will become the next CEO and president effective April 1, 2024.

An interview with Azelis Asia-Pacific Chief executive officer (CEO), Sertac Surur, discussing the importance of reinforcing supply chains and boosting partnerships in the context of the pandemic. Surur also outlines Azelis's plans for regional expansion in the Asia-Pacific region, including China and South Asia, through organic growth, targeted acquisitions, and an extensive digitalization strategy.

The article offers information on Dow Inc., announcing the retirement of president and CFO Howard Ungerleider, who will be succeeded by Jeffrey Tate.

The article focuses on Linde's positive sales and operating profit growth in the Asia-Pacific region during the second quarter, driven by volume growth in electronics, chemicals, and energy end markets, with a commitment to resilience and productivity. Topics include Linde's expectations for business performance in the region, growth and investment plans for the electronics industry, the development of clean energy markets.

The article focuses on the upcoming departure of Olin's chairman and Chief executive officer (CEO), Scott Sutton, who will step down in the first half of 2024, and the company's search for his successor after his tenure during which he implemented changes in the company's strategy.

The article focuses on the outcome of Argentina's presidential primary, where candidates supportive of the lithium industry, crucial for the energy transition, emerged as frontrunners, potentially benefiting companies like Allkem Ltd. and their merger plans with Livent Corp.

The article discusses the need for the chemical industry to take a leading role in advanced plastic recycling to achieve circularity goals and gain societal approval. Tim Stedman, chief executive officer of Agilyx Group, emphasizes the industry's requirement for substantial investment and proactive actions in recycling projects, considering the relatively small capital invested so far.

The article focuses on the higher pay packages of executives in the chemical industry. Overview of the result of the executive compensation survey at 49 publicly-traded top chemical companies in the U.S., which found out the increase of pay packages of high-ranking executives in the sector, is offered. Several charts that illustrate the cash and equivalent remuneration in dollars in the sector are also provided.

The article discusses the selections of new leaders under the management of chemical companies and the business strategies shift in management. Topics discussed changes in personnel management including Martin Brudermuller selected as CEO of world largest chemical company by sales BASF SE, Jeff Fettig elected as chairman of DowDuPont and Liam Condon, and president of Bayer’s crop science division will lead new science business of the firm.

The article focuses on OCI NV CEO's statement that the majority of announced blue and green ammonia and methanol projects will not reach final investment decisions due to issues such as offtake and technical risk.

The article focuses on Peter Huntsman, chairman and Chief executive officer (CEO) of Huntsman Corp, who believes that Europe's energy-transition policies are "not grounded in reality" and are having a counter-productive effect on people and countries in the developing world.

The article focuses on chemical industry executives' outlook for 2023, where they see a demand weakness continuing until early 2023, but they are optimistic that conditions will improve in the second half, with a recovery in Asia, particularly China, being a key factor.

The article reports that In eco-friendly energy solutions, OCI produces solar-grade polysilicon in Malaysia with a focus on production efficiency and cost competitiveness. Since the Alamo project where we built the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) plant in North America in 2012, we have grown as a leading solar PV company by actively participating in the development of solar power plants in the US, China, and Korea.

The article presents an interview with Tim Doggett, chief executive officer (CEO) of Chemical Business Association (CBA). He discusses disruption of global supply chain affected by chemical distribution sector in United Kingdom. He mentions effect of Brexit on the chemical distributors. He also mentions focus of chemical manufacturing on issues of sustainability.

The article reports on the statement by Peter Vanacker, chief executive officer (CEO) of LyondelLBasell, and Albert Chao, CEO of Westlake that U.S. polyethylene (PE) prices may reach the lowest point but Chinese demand will need to rebound for margins to recover.

The article shares insight from Mark Costa, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Eastman Chemical, stressing the need for a mindset shift to enable circular economy. Topics discussed are importance of collaboration across the value chain as well as of engaging and educating consumers on sustainable products and recycling, the need for worldscale chemical recycling facilities in Europe and the U.S., and significance of incentives and policy change to drive behavior change.

The article announces the resignation of Yousef-al-Benyan as chief executive officer (CEO) of Sabic after being appointed by Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud to a Saudi government ministerial post.

The article discusses that the provider of specialty chemicals, Lubrizol Corporation, has anointed Rebecca Liebert as its next chief executive officer, effective October 3, 2022, who will replace Mary Rhinehart.

The article provides information on tentative inauguration of transnational oil company Shell's Pennsylvania Chemicals complex in Monaca, Pennsylvania.

The article discusses that the Boulder Scientific (Mead, Colorado), a manufacturer of organometallic compounds, is adjusting from family ownership, since its foundation in 1961, to ownership by private equity firm Quad-C Management, which acquired a majority stake in Boulder Scientific in 2019. It mentions that Richard Preziotti was appointed CEO of the company in July to lead Boulder Scientific through the rest of the next phase of this transition.

The article presents news briefs related to the U.S. chemical industry. Arsenal Capital has announced plans to acquire Adhesives Technology. DuPont's safety and construction business plans to invest more than $400 million to expand Tyvek-brand nonwoven materials capacity in Luxembourg. Chemours has enrolled Arkema to distribute Chemours' hydrofluoroolefin (HFO)-based refrigerant XP40.

The article presents an interview with Teijin (Tokyo, Japan) president Jun Suzuki. He tells CWs Kartik Kohli that the company is accelerating growth of its carbon fiber intermediate material business for aircraft applications as a strategic focus; and he aiming for the business to be one of the company's core sources of revenue by about 2030.

The article presents an interview with Azelis Asia Pacific, chief executive officer Laurent Nataf. He discusses that the company has also defined a comprehensive set of goals to support its sustainable growth ambitions; and focuses on how would he assess logistically and operating challenges such as warehousing capacities, storage, handling, and transport of chemicals in the APAC region compared with other region.

The article focuses on the salaries and compensation of c-suite executives in the chemical industry. It mentions the survey conducted by the periodical "ChemWeek," which shows that 222 c-suite executives have experience 6.1% salary increase in 2013 as compared with their compensation in 2012. It cites Andrew Liveris, chief executive officer (CEO) of Dow Chemicals Co., as the one with the highest compensation package amounting to $20.5 million. INSET: Methodology.

The article offers information on the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) annual forum held in 2019. It featured changes in the industry landscape and challenging conditions along with petrochemical companies target growth and hedge risk, including with energy' companies and presented plans of Oman Oil and Orpic company.

The article offers information that the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has reported that Jose Carlos Grubisich, former chief executive officer (CEO) of petrochemical firm Braskem, has been accused of bribing government officials from funds of Braskem, as of April 2021.

The article focuses on Clariant's chief executive officer, Comad Keijzer, who assumed responsibility on 1 January, will lead the next phase of the company's transformation program, which was launched in 2020. It mentions that this includes divesting the company's pigments business and two "rightsizing" programs that will reduce its workforce; and Keijzer replaced Hariolf Kottmann, the chairman of the company's board who was serving as Clariant's executive chairman ad interim.

The article report that the Activist investor Starboard Value LP (New York, New York) on 21 January, 2021 nominated eight directors to Corteva's board, aiming for a majority in a bid to replace chief executive officer Jim Collins.

The article announces Tronox Holdings announced that chairman, Jeffry Quinn, has taken a leave of absence effective after telling the board has referenced as an unnamed individual in a US Securities and Exchange Commission complaint regarding alleged insider trading in shares of Ferro Corporation.

In this article, the author talks about how the post- COVID-19 pandemic recovery is to bring surprises and challenges and how there is a sense of normality returning as the fourth quarter of 2020 begins. It also mentions how the pandemic is accelerating critical trends that need to be forcefully addressed, industry leaders noted at the European Petrochemical Association (EPCA) annual meeting.

The article discusses that the Mitsui Chemicals' new president and chief executive officer Osamu Hashimoto took the helm on 1 April, 2020 succeeding chairman Tsutomu Tannowa, to reflect before addressing the immediate challenges presented by COVID-19 and resulting sharp economic deterioration. It mentions that the Mitsui Chemicals three targeted domains that have strong market and technology positions in markets growing faster than GDP.

The article discusses that according to Aramco president and CEO Amin Nasser, the crude-oil-to-chemicals (COTC) is important to Saudi Aramco, with the company's recently completed acquisition of Sabic ideal. It mentions that COTC was one of Aramco's reasons for acquiring Sabic. It also mentions that more than half of Aramco's office workers worked from home during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article focuses on the BASF was alert to the possible risk of an unsolicited takeover approach or an attack from activist investors. It mentions the risk that BASF, given its current market capitalization, could become the target of a takeover or of activist investors cannot be ruled out. It also mentions the BASF's market value has dropped more than 20 percent as the COVID-19 pandemic reduced worldwide demand for its products.

The article announces the appointment of J. Kent Masters as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Albermale, as of April 2020.

The article announces the resignation of Michael Wilson at Ingevity president and Chief executive officers (CEO).

The article discusses that DuPont has returned executive chairman Edward Breen to the Chief executive officers (CEO) role and removed CEO Mark Doyle and Chief financial officers (CFO) Jeanmarie Desmond from their positions. It mentions the changes were made to ensure the company has a management team in place that can accelerate operational performance to pursue growth; and also mentions that productivity efforts will likely be supplemented by more aggressive scrutiny of cost leakage.

The article announces the retirement of Luke Kissam, chairman of Albemarle Corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The article announces the American Cleaning Institute's (ACI's) president and Chief Executive Officer, Melissa Hockstad, has focused on business, science, and communications. Topics include ACI has unveiled an updated publication on guidance for the risk assessment of enzyme containing consumer products; and ACI launching a sustainability campaign during National Cleaning Week to highlight how the cleaning products supply chain has working toward a clean, sustainable world.

The article announces that Roberto Simoes has been appointed as chief executive officer (CEO) at Braskem.

The article offers information on the Jose Carlos Grubisich, former Chief executive officers (CEO) of Braskem, was arrested by U.S. authorities at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport on corruption charges.