GLG News by Specialty Chemical Experts

Dow CEO Andrew Liveris bet the future of the entire company on his 2-stage M&A based transformation:  Sell commodity businesses into a Kuwaiti JV and use the proceeds to buy Rohm & Haas.  Priced at obsolete valuations both of these deals now seem questionable.  Any fallout could...

According to a Grocery Headquarters Magazine, nonfoods handbook, food, drug, and mass channels (excluding Wal-Mart) private labels are gaining traction.  Private label nonfood categories such as liquid analgesics, liquid cold/allergy/sinus, and hand & body lotions are...

ExxonMobil will invest $1 Billion to expand world wide diesel capacity by about 6 million gallons/day by 2010. The decision is driven by a worldwide diesel refining capacity shortage as diesel displaces gasoline as the preferred liquid transportation fuel. Selected chemical specialty companies will...

The success of the nickel metal hydride utilizing hybrid power train is one of the truly outstanding successes of Japanese automotive engineering, and it demonstrates clearly the short sightedness of American OEM automotive management. The nickel metal battery was invented in a suburban Detroit...

Obama's call for significant new renewable energy generation may drive the need for more solar / PV capacity.   Dow Corning and Hemlock may be relying on this prospect to pay back their $3 Billion polysilicon investment.

The Prius line of best selling hybrids in the world is due to be expanded next month with the introduction of several new models at the Detroit 'International" Auto Show. Most of the Priuses made are now sold are sold in North America. The Prius is only built in Japan. The nickel metal hydride...

DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred corn seed market share has tumbled this decade, and an outmoded distribution strategy may have been a contributing factor. Its new model finally allows for regional seed companies, whether recently purchased or independently signed up as a direct licensee,...

While GM ignored the success of the Toyota Prius apparently for no other reason than that they wanted the public to believe that it wasn't invented here Ford decided to watch and learn. Ford has now reached the point where it about to challenge Toyota and Honda for a place in the hybrid sun.   There...

Per a Purchasing.Com, 12/10 article, retailers are implementing supply chain cost reduction plans.  Additional distribution centers and retail store closings are likely as supply chain executives react to potential North American profits warnings.  

Battery powered utility vehicles such as industrial forklift trucks and the 'traction' motors that pull 100 ton+ airplanes into and out of their 'parking' slots at airports are very impressive. However, to put forward the idea that there is a comparison between and a possibility of utilizing them to...