ICIS Reporter Weekly Newsletter 10.11.09
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Editors Comment
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Welcome
to the ICIS Chemical Business weekly newsletter,
bringing you all the analysis and insight you need to
keep you ahead of the game in the competitive and
dynamic chemical industry! This week we bring you
our special issue on Nutrition & Health. What are
the hottest nutraceuticals and what are they doing
in your drinks? Plus, the omega-3 fatty acid craze continues
in full force. And we bring you a special on the 20-year
anniversary of the falloff the Berlin Wall and the beginning
of
chemical integration in Germany.
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Top News
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Nutraceuticals
find a niche in beauty market
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Omega-3
fatty acid use is growing rapidly
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Cognis
to grow Nutrition & Health
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Nutritional
supplement regulations worry European industry
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Debate
over genetic modification continues to rage
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Global
chemical producers look to get a piece of the growing photovoltaic market
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History
of German chemical industry since the Berlin Wall fell
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ICIS news: Editors' Top Picks
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US
PE exports to China show signs of slowing down - traders
Big
Oil has good chance at making ethanol profitable - analyst
Wacker
Chemie Q3 profit falls 79%; reverses Q2 loss
SABIC-Sinopec
Tianjin project partly fills China petchems demand
Polymers
surge as US PE export window reopens - Lyondell
Iran’s
PP, PE exports to Pakistan to double in 2009
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ICIS news: Most Popular Picks
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New
US law bars chems from using security to impede probes
US
will need Brazil ethanol to meet biofuels goal - analyst
India
April-Sept PP imports triple; sustainability in doubt
BASF
predicts slow, uneven recovery as Q3 net profit falls 69%
China’s
October PMI rises to 55.2%, expansion accelerates
US
October ethylene settles at 2.75 cent/lb increase
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ICIS Blogs
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Some
Very Crude Perceptions
90%
bioplastic substitution possible
Go-faster
polyurethane swimsuits break records and flatten paunches
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ICIS Podcasts
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ICIS conferences
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The 8th European
Aromatics & Derivatives Conference
25 - 26 November 2009
The 3rd ICIS Bioresources Summit
26 November 2009
The 5th ICIS Pan-American Base Oils & Lubricants Conference
3 - 4 December 2009
The 14th World Base Oils conference
18 - 19 February 2010