Rhodia Polyamide announces global price increase for Adipic Acid to address unprecedented energy costs and persistent high raw material prices

Rhodia Engineering PlasticsLyon, France, September 27, 2005 – Rhodia Polyamide announces a global price rise for Adipic Acid effective October 1st, 2005 or as contracts will allow. Prices will increase by US$125 / MT in North America, South America and Asia, €100 / MT in Europe and 15 yen/kg in Japan.

CHEMTURA INCREASES PRICES ON PHOSPHORUS FLAME RETARDANTS

ChemturaMIDDLEBURY, CT, Sept. 22, 2005 — Chemtura Corporation (NYSE:CEM) today announced a worldwide price increase of $0.70/ kg for the Reofos® and Kronitex® Phosphorous flame retardant grades, effective October 15, 2005, where contracts allow.

GE’s Quartz Business to Offer Custom Wafer Heater Assemblies for Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturers

Multi-Zone Center Shaft Heater Assembly

New multi-zone center shaft heater assembly featuring a pyrolytic boron nitride (PBN) heater sealed with GE 124 quartz ingot material. A two-zone example is shown, but the assembly is capable of five or more independent zones.BERGEN OP ZOOM, THE NETHERLANDS — September 26, 2005 — To help optimize the performance of heaters and electrostatic chucks in chip-making equipment, GE’s Quartz business today announced an integrated heater assembly platform based at the company’s new laboratory in Kobe, Japan. These custom assemblies – a critical subsystem of semiconductor equipment manufacturers’ wafer chambers – combine customer-specific mechanical, electrical, and thermal engineering with GE’s advanced chemical vapor deposited (CVD) ceramic heaters and e-chucks. By considering thermal, plasma, mechanical, and electrical boundary conditions of the OEM’s chamber, GE’s new integrated design process helps optimize the performance of the entire system.

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare Appoints Eurocom Network for 11-Country Campaign

EurocomEurocom Worldwide, the Global PR Network, has signed an agreement with Pfizer Consumer Healthcare to undertake Public Affairs and Public Relations campaign management across 11 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, from Slovenia to Latvia, from Czech Republic to Russia.

科聚亞提高KP-140專用添加劑價格

Chemtura美國康涅狄格州米德爾伯裏— 科聚亞公司(紐約證券交易所代碼:CEM)今日發表聲明,在全球範圍內將其KP-140®專用添加劑提價25%,即時或在合同允許範圍內生效。該次價格調整是為了適應全球原材料和能源成本的持續價格增長。

Synventive introduces new aids for multi-cavity applications

Synventive's new 03C and 04C nozzles for processing PP to engineering grades of plastics, featuring replaceable heaters to give optimum efficiency.‘s GRAVENDEEL, THE NETHERLANDS – September 15, 2005 – To provide injection molders with an improved control solution in multi-cavity molding, Synventive recently introduced a new small nozzle series, the 03C and O4C. This nozzle will replace the older generation CA nozzle, which has featured in the company’s product line up for over 10 years.

Borealis to grow phenol business

BorealisBorealis today announced a total investment plan exceeding EUR 60 million to boost capacity and increase efficiency for its Phenol and Aromatics business located in Porvoo Finland. Beyond the ongoing expansions to increase cumene and benzene capacity by 30% and investments to improve the safety and reliability of operations, an additional EUR 29 million will be invested to expand phenol capacity from 140,000 to 190,000 tonnes per year and acetone from 90,000 to 115,000 tonnes per year.