WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Dow Chemical in Plaquemine has two flares going, resulting in the orange glow. The Company had a temporary power interruption at the main site, but is now stable.
Driive (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Dow Chemical Earnings Call, Second Quarter 2008 123Jump.com, FL - 25 minutes ago The North American automotive and housing industries continued to decline, and negatively impacted results in a number of business units such as Dow ...
Safety Joke (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Indian villagers burn Dow Chemical building site -- Signs of the Times News : "Mumbai - About 100 people worried about industrial pollution set fire to a construction site of a local unit of Dow Chemical Co. in western India on Friday, police and a Dow official said. The Company is setting up a research and development centre with an initial investment of 4 billion rupees ($90 million) near Shinde...
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Dow Chemical Co. NYSE:DOW said Thursday that despite record sales and two double-digit price increases unveiled in the second quarter, its profit for the period fell 27 percent, in large part because of sharply higher costs for energy and raw materials....
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
In New York, Dow Chemical announced a research partnership with the Department of Energy to pursue new methods for converting biomass into ethanol, using a mixed alcohol catalyst developed by Dow. Dow background Dow Chemical said that it would commence land acquisition efforts in August for a sugarcane-to-ethanol-to-polyethylene plastics business unit. The Company’s process will use renewable [...]...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
CHICAGO, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 today announced an agreement with Dow Chemical Co. that requires the Company to clean up dioxin contamination in the Riverside Boulevard neighborhood of Saginaw, Mich. Construction work in this neighborhood on the Lower Tittabawassee River is expected to begin in late July and continue through the fall. EPA's...
Ink World Magazine Breaking News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Rohm and Haas Company has entered into an agreement with the Dow Chemical Company, under which Dow will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Rohm and Haas common stock for $78 per share in cash or more than $15 billion. Under the terms of agreement, Rohm and Haas will retain its Philadelphia headquarters location, and continue to do business under the Rohm and Haas name. Additionally, Dow will...
Coatings World Breaking News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Rohm and Haas Co. has agreed to be bought by Dow Chemical Co. in an agreement under which Dow offered to pay $78 per share in cash—or roughly $15 billion total. Additional financing for the acquisition includes an equity investment by Warren Buffet’s Company Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority in the form of convertible preferred securities for $3 billion and $1 billion respectively....
Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Dow Chemical Co. will buy rival Chemicals maker Rohm and Haas Co. for more than $15 billion in a deal the Chemical giant said Thursday was a lynchpin for growth. The $78 per-share deal includes money from a Kuwaiti sovereign wealth fund and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway....
Superior Investor (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW) has agreed to purchase Rohm and Haas Co(NYSE:ROH), a maker of specialty Chemicals. For investors of Rohm and Haas, the deal is quite lucrative. Doc has offered $78/share, which is a remarkable 74% premium over the stock’s closing price on Tuesday. A great return for those who have held [...]
10Q Detective (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
High raw material costs recently forced Dow Chemical (DOW-$33.92) to move ahead with plans to temporarily idle or reduce production at a number of manufacturing plants. Ethylene commodity-like sales cycle, an economic downturn in the U.S. (about 40 percent of sales), and a second round of price hikes being passed along to its customers—as if the world’s second largest diversified Chemical Company
GASG (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Meanwhile, from the NY Times: Dow Chemical Raises Prices for Second Time in a Month The Dow Chemical Company said Tuesday that it was raising prices for the second time in a month to offset a “relentless rise” in energy costs, a sign that companies may increasingly have to pass on price increases to their customers. The increase of as much as 25 percent — the largest in...
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Let me just preface this by saying that when I praise Dow Chemical as forward thinking when it comes to energy and climate change that it in no way is meant to excuse the Company for dumping dioxins into the Titabawassee River and dragging their feet on cleaning it up (or in trying to strongarm the state into cutting backdoor, sweetheart deals to avoid culpability). It also doesn't excuse the Company...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
BOSTON, Aug 18 /PRNewswire/ -- CIO magazine has named Sappi Fine Paper North America as a recipient of its 2008 CIO 100 Award. The annual award program recognizes only 100 organizations worldwide that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). The 2008 awards recognize innovative executives and organizations that use IT effectively to create...
The Indypendent (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Twenty-three years after the worst Chemical leak in Indian history, momentum is building — both in the streets and in top government circles — to enforce needed remediation and address tens of thousands of ailing victims.
