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November 24, 2008

Cover Story
Mideast
The timing of the latest wave of Mideast capacity could be better. Global petrochemical demand is tumbling, dragging pricing and margins with it, just as Mideast producers are set to increase ethylene capacity by nearly 12 million m.t./year in 2008-09, a...
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Newsbriefs
Waxman to Head House Energy and Commerce CommitteeCelanese Cuts Full-Year ForecastObama Reaffirms Pledge to Mandate GHG ReductionsU.S. Sugar, Coskata Study World’s Largest Cellulosic Ethanol PlantFMCSA Issues Final Hours of Service RuleAshland Cuts Quarterly DividendPotashCorp Employees ReturnHuntsman Lifts Polyols Force MajeureSymrise Boosts Citrus PortfolioCefic Predicts That EU Chemical Output Will Decline in 2008 and 2009Perstorp to Cut 10% of its Workforce in SwedenKBR Awarded Study for Major Complex in EgyptDSM Divests Deretil to ManagementYara Idles Ammonia, Urea Plants in France; Cuts in the NetherlandsLenzing CFO to Become ChairmanNippon Oil Idles P-Xylene UnitsPotash Firm Slashes OutputJacobs Awarded Fungicide Contract
Viewpoint
Free Falling
Top of the Week
BASF to Shutter or Scale Back 180 Plants as Demand Shrinks
Business & Finance

United States/Americas

APLA: Firms Brace for 2009, but Parts of Latin America to GrowHexion’s Loss Widens on Higher CostsGroup Details Chemical Threats and SolutionsU.S. Ethanol Projects Falter as Financial Crisis Takes TollMcNeil and Sugar Group Settle Splenda SuitDow Executives Buy SharesU.K. Industry Feels a Deepening Of the Economic SlowdownSomali Pirates Release Chemical Tanker

Europe/Mideast

Ineos Seeks Waivers from BanksLyondellBasell to Cut Workforce by 15%

Asia/Pacific

Japanese Firms’ First-Half Profits Fall as Recession Bites
New Construction Projects
Sabic and ExxonMobil Ink Deal for Elastomers VentureTasnee Mulls Petchem Complex at Jizan, Saudi ArabiaFormosa Plastics Receives Approval for Plant in VietnamToyo-Thai Lands H2O2 Contract in ThailandSP Chemicals Shelves Chinese Styrene PlantAir Liquide Builds Gases Plant in Portugal
Pharmaceuticals & Fine Chemicals
SAFC: The Age of the Blockbuster Drug has ‘Disappeared’Merck Adds to Biotech CenterGSK to Shut U.K. Manufacturing Plant by 2013
Specialty Chemicals
Cosmetics Demand Expected to Remain HealthyKemira Buys Water Treatment FirmBunge-Corn Products Deal NixedEckart Opens China UnitDistribution Updates
Basic Chemicals & Plastics
End-Market Use Drives Performance Polymer DemandPET Industry Hurt by Economic DownturnFormosa Restarts PP PlantOxea Idles Oxo CapacityFire Shuts Mitsubishi PlantAlastian Launches in Asia
CW Price Report
CW Price Report
CW75 Stock Performance
CW75 Stock Performance
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Key Changes

Key Changes
Companies
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