Basic chemicals is its largest segment, accounting for about 40% of sales, while it also manufactures intermediates, polyolefins, PVC and polyester, fertilizers, and metals.
Basic chemicals are another example of a group that has had a big runup in 1999, even though the earnings record and current outlook are mediocre.
Profit also rose in basic chemicals and plastics.
Later that day, Lehman downgraded Commodity Chemicals, a supplier and exporter of basic chemicals.
Prices for petrochemicals, the basic chemicals used to make other chemicals and plastics, have dropped.
China, which sees basic chemicals as strategic, is undeterred by market signals.
Instead, Erowid taught Boyer the street names of unfamiliar drugs, along with the basic chemicals that they contained.
Among Eni's other interests are polymers, basic chemicals, electric power generation, and the manufacture of heavy machinery.
Many nanoparticles are made of the same basic chemicals as current products that have already been regulated.
In recent years, fireworks designers have achieved subtle pinks, pale greens and orangey yellows by manipulating those basic chemicals.
When economic crisis hit in 2008, demand for the basic chemicals used in everything from paints to plastic bags plummeted.
