Gruber brought PLA samples to more than a dozen plastics makers, including DuPont, Monsanto and BASF.
Agriculture and chemical companies like DuPont , Dow Chemical and BASF are all ridding themselves of their drug divisions.
Dupont competes with other diversified industrial and chemical companies like Dow Chemicals , 3M Company and BASF.
Sherwin Williams sells premium paint that is priced higher than competitors such as Benjamin Moore, Dupont and BASF.
Chemical giants like DuPont and BASF are eyeing apparel in a big way.
He has formed the "Third Industrial Revolution Roundtable" with 100 leaders from industry - big names such as IBM and BASF are on the list - as well as governments to further promote the idea.
ExxonMobil is now also pushing against proposed reforms to TSCA contained in the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011, a move that, perhaps surprisingly, pits it against several other large chemical manufacturers such as Dow Chemical and BASF Corporation.
Among the visitors are elementary school students who do small chemistry experiments related to color and absorption of liquids in a BASF lab and learn how everyday products get made.
The two have held seminars and workshops in China with executives from companies including Siemens, Bayer, BASF and Boeing to talk about ethics in a local context.
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DuPont competes chiefly with other corporate giants like Dow Chemical, Monsanto, BASF and Huntsman Corp.
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ON, chemicals outfit BASF and health care firm Bayer as its largest holdings.
Huntsman is manufacturing the substance along with BASF and several Chinese companies--including Shanghai Huayi (group company) and Sinopec Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical Corp.
The Forbes Healthcare Summit was supported by partners Medidata and Masimo and supporters MITRE, BASF, Verizon, Cancer Treatment Centers Of America, Arthrex, and Onyx Pharmaceuticals.
Children in North America, South Korea, China and Japan attend similar BASF-sponsored programs.
Mario Draghi (European Central Banker) is trying to create these similar type mechanisms to protect their economy, and so you look at a lot of European large cap names like BASF ( ETR:BAS) and Siemens ( SI) trading under 11 and a half times.
BASF, banks and insurers also find buybacks attractive, because strong stock and bond markets have boosted the value of their assets and left them with far more capital than regulators require.
Now BASF must persuade regulators and consumers that Reach, in its current form, would mean less innovation for all businesses.
The verbund process is replicated at BASF plants in Louisiana and Texas, as well as in Belgium, Malaysia and, as of this year, Nanjing, China.
DuPont (nyse: DD - news - people ) and Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF (nyse: BF - news - people ) have all shirked off their drug divisions, while attempts at combining agriculture and chemicals under one roof by companies like Monsanto and Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) have failed.
In Germany, where half the gross domestic product comes from exporting companies such as Siemens, chemical makers like BASF or carmakers like Volkswagen and Porsche, hard-to-find skilled workers with training and certain qualifications are valued over temporary staff.
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Two hundred fifty of that top tier are foreign companies including such well-known firms as Axa, BASF, Deutsche Telecom, Roche and Adidas.
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Three years ago the No. 100 in rank had sales, profits and market value roughly half the size of BASF, which has the slot this year.
And it is fair to say that the BASF move comes at the same time when there appears to be confusion in Europe about what the Commission is going to do about the issue.
Geigy, began as a dye producer and went onto become Novartis the drug maker, BASF, IG Farben.
Customers include BASF (for use in sunblocks) and Dr. Scholl's (for use as an antifungal agent in foot powder).
BASF's chemicals output around bigger, and more efficient, plants.
Faced with these competitive pressures, BASF may make the best of a bad situation by buying and selling the right to emit carbon from one of several new European markets.
With all this, by the end of 2007 only 20% of Huntsman's revenues will come from Asia, though that's up from zero four years ago and a higher percentage of total revenue than its huge competitors like Dow, DuPont or BASF.
Where it was struggling in North America, the world's largest chemical market, BASF has streamlined operations, closing old plants, acquiring a slew of new businesses and cutting the number of employees by 15%.
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