Kuraray to Step Up Activities in Emerging Economies

Feature: Chemical Companies' Business Strategies (part-2)

Veolia Water Buys Majority Share in DIC Water-treatment Business

Silver-based Catalyst Efficiently Purifies Exhaust at Low Cost

Board of Nippon Sheet Glass Nominates New President

ESA Spacecraft to Use Ube's Thermal-control Film

Novel Microbial Rice Fungicide Effective across Wide Spectrum

Cationic Photo-polymerization Initiator Contains No Toxic Anionic Element

Moresco Acts to Expand Overseas Markets for Its Auto Lubricants

Japan's Catalyst Market Saw Recovery in 2007

Kuraray Tapping Business of Polyarylate Fibers

Fujikura Kasei to Buy US Paint Maker Red Spot

Cemedine Henkel to Promote Car-use Adhesives Business

Kawaguchi Chemical Contemplating China Production of Rubber Chemicals

Japan EnviroChem Completes Activated-carbon Plant

Toho Tenax Starts Up New Line for Carbon Fibers

Fujifilm's New Slurries Suitable for Next-generation Chip Fabrication

Mitsubishi Chemical Pushing R&D in Area of Advanced TFT-LCDs

Ube's High-purity Chip Processing Chemicals Enjoy Rising Sales

Japanese Encapsulant Makers Reach Crossroads in China

Highly Conductive Polymer Suitable as ITO Alternative

Nagase Takes Over RNAi Biotech Venture iGene

Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Aims to Submit Three Drugs for Approval in 2009

Sanofi-Aventis to Increase Drug Production in Japan

Eisai to Start Phase II Trials on Liver-cancer Drug in Asia

Polymer Carrier Suited for SiRNA Delivery System

Life Science Summit Underscores Joint International Clinical Trials

Kaneko Chemical Begins Thai Production of Earth-friendly Cleaners

Sun Care Fuels to Test Production of Biodiesel from Sunflower Seeds

Ceramics CO2 Absorbent Attains Tripled Capacity

Study Concludes Bio-ETBE Mixed into Gasoline Poses No Health Hazards

Synthetic Leather Made with Eco-friendly Process

Asahi Glass to Spur Use of Eco-sensible Fluorinated Solvents

Dai Nippon Toryo to Promote Heat-shielding Road Paints

Volume Synthesis Achieved for High-purity 1,4-Naphthalenediol

China's Output Capacity for Acetic Acid to Outstrip Demand

Tsurumi Soda Gets Ready NaClO with Less Bromic Acid

Shiraishi Kogyo to Make Ultrafine CaCO3 in Europe with Swiss Partner

SAP Capacity Expansions in China Starting to Take Off

Kaneka to Up China Capacity for Foamed Polyolefins

Mitsubishi Heavy Industrie Receives Order to Build Algerian Fertilizer Complex

Output, Sales Edged Down in 2007 for Inorganics

Oil-products Demand in 2012 Put at below 200 Mn kL

SE Asian Ethylene Capacity to Overtake That of Japan

Tokai Carbon to Increase Thai Output Capacity for Carbon Black

Asahi Kasei to Target $2 Bn in Operating Profit by 2015

Air Products Japan Appoints Crossland President

Singaporean Biomedical Industry Grew 3% in 2007