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The National Newspaper of the Liquid and Dry Bulk Transportation Industry
See Our New Product Digest Section on Page 22!
Ashland, Sud-Chemie
venturing
MAC Trailer tells recession goodbye
Covington, Ky.-based Ashland
Inc. and Sud-Chemie AG
of Munich, Germany, have
reached contractual agreement
on the formation of a global
joint venture to merge their
business activities in the
foundry chemicals sector. The
joint venture will be known
as ASK Chemicals GmbH
and will be headquartered
in Hilden, Germany. Sud-
Chemie and Ashland will each
hold a fifty-percent share in
ASK Chemicals, while the
operational management
leadership will lie with Sud-
Chemie.
The joint venture will employ
about 1,300 people. Were it to
have been in operation through
the first six months of calendar
2010, it would have generated
In Alliance, Ohio, trailer
manufacturer MAC Trailer is
proving a valuable model for
those American companies
continuing to spend more
time complaining about
their economic bruising than
exploring new pathways and
possibilities.
(MAC continued on page 17)
Chemical group
forms energy center
(Ashland continued on page 18)
The board of directors of
the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
has approved the formation of a
Center for Energy Initiatives. In
announcing the center, AIChE
President Henry T. Kohlbrand
said: “AIChE members are
already working on energy-
related issues from multiple
(AIChE continued on page 21)
Neighborhood gas stations
selling BP product are feeling
the pain of a now four-month-
long boycott by consumers
angry over the Gulf spill, the
worst environmental disaster
in the nation’s history. Some
station owners from Georgia to
Illinois say sales have declined
10 percent to 40 percent.
Station owners and BP gas
distributors told BP officials
last month they needed a break
on the cost of the gas they buy,
and they wanted help paying
for more advertising aimed at
motorists, according to John
Kleine, executive director of
the independent BP Amoco
Marketers Association. The
station owners, who earn more
from sales of soda and snacks
than gasoline, also want more
BP station owners seek financial relief
Bill aims to stabilize
milk prices
(BP stations continued on page 18)
(Milk prices continued on page 12)
Forty years ago there were 40
dairy farms in the small town of
Rochester, Vt. Now there’s just
one.
“We are the last one left in
our valley. We want to stay
there,” said Beth Kennett,
who milks 100 cows with her
husband and two sons. Newly
introduced legislation aimed at
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