Chemicals

* Clariant cuts 500 jobs, 3 pct of workforce * Q4 loss narrows, sees no sustainable recovery yet * Givaudan profit meets forecast, sees good start to 2010 * Clariant shares fall 2 pct, Givaudan down 5 pct (Wraps Clariant, Givaudan; adds analyst comment

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss specialty chemicals companies Clariant and Givaudan hinted at a prolonged recovery process for an industry hit hard by the downturn in key markets like the car and building sectors. European rivals like AkzoNobel and Solvay ,

* Clariant cuts 500 jobs, 3 pct of workforce * Q4 loss narrows, sees no sustainable recovery yet * Givaudan profit meets forecast, sees good start to 2010 * Clariant shares fall 2 pct, Givaudan down 5 pct (Wraps Clariant, Givaudan; adds analyst comment

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss specialty chemicals companies Clariant CLN.VX and Givaudan GIVN.VX hinted at a prolonged recovery process for an industry hit hard by the downturn in key markets like the car and building sectors. European rivals like AkzoNobel

KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by INDORAMA-ownedEleme Petrochemicals Co. Ltd (Eleme) to provide technology licensing and engineering services related to the revamp of Eleme's Port Harcourt, Nigeria ethylene plant. KBR

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss specialty chemicals companies Clariant and Givaudan hinted at a prolonged recovery process for an industry hit hard by the downturn in key markets like the car and building sectors.

* Clariant cuts 500 jobs, 3 percent of workforce * Q4 loss narrows, sees no sustainable recovery yet * Givaudan profit meets forecast, sees good start to 2010 * Clariant shares fall 2 percent, Givaudan down 5 percent (Wraps Clariant, Givaudan; adds

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Clariant says it will cease production of textile dyes and chemicals, as well as paper chemicals, at Muttenz, Switzerland as part of a major restructuring of the company's production capacity over the next three years. The company will also partially

The new MCP series of polarimeters builds on a long tradition, beginning in the 1980s with the first Gyromat series developed and distributed by Dr. Kernchen GmbH. In 2007 Dr. Kernchen became part of the Anton Paar group, which is renowned for its

Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Clariant AG, the world’s biggest maker of printing-ink chemicals, will deepen job cuts and move some production to prepare for a year that will be “similarly difficult” to 2009. Clariant will move its textile dyes and textile

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The Clariant specialty chemicals group announced a loss for 2009 on Tuesday and said it would cut 500 jobs, 400 of them in Switzerland. Clariant, based at Muttenz near Basel, said it made a net loss of SFr194 million ($180.65 million) compared with a

MUTTENZ, Switzerland -Swiss chemicals group Clariant announced Tuesday an annual loss of 194 million Swiss francs (132.3 million euros, 180.5 million dollars) last year and said it would proceed with restructuring plans and more layoffs. The 2009 loss

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ASF is increasing the prices of its polyalcohols neopentylglycol (NPG), trimethylolpropane (TMP), hydroxypivalic acid neopentylglycol ester (HPN) and 1,6-hexanediol (HDO) with immediate effect or as existing contracts permit. The price adjustment