Welcome to the ICIS CEO Opinion e-newsletter: This month ICIS Chemical Business editor Joe Chang talks to Henry Roth, president and CEO of MEGlobal... **If you would like to view this email as a web page. Please click below** http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/chemicals/chnce/HTML/CHNCE_20090706.html **Add us to your safe senders list** http://epidm.edgesuite.net/RBI/whitelist/whitelist.html Story of the Week =================================== MEGa opportunity ----------------------------------------------------------------- This month ICIS Chemical Business editor Joe Chang talks to Henry Roth, president and CEO of MEGlobal and Equipolymers, two of Dow Chemical’s joint ventures with Kuwait’s PIC. They discuss the current market for ethylene glycol, the drive for future capital investment and the synergies between the two companies that Roth expects to build upon as MEGlobal celebrates its fifth anniversary http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9230493&nf=true MEGlobal seeks acquisitions, expansion ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9229349&nf=true Proposed US EG hikes spur pre-buying – reseller ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9228422&nf=true First Europe July MEG contract up €55/t, June 520/t finds support ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9229330&nf=true Chemical industry appointments ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9208745&nf=true US EG producers see July price hikes of 2-5 cents/lb ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.icis.com/Articles/article.aspx?liarticleid=9226648&nf=true Advertorial =================================== Breaking new ground in chemical innovation? 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