ICIS Launches Chemical Industry Innovation Awards for 2009, Sponsored by Dow Corning

September 27th, 2009 NEW YORK and LONDON - ICIS Chemical Business magazine is pleased to announce that Germany-based specialty chemical firm LANXESS has been named ICIS Company of the Year. "The ICIS Company of the Year Award goes to LANXESS for its outstanding financial performance in a challenging 2008," said Joseph Chang, Global Editor of ICIS Chemical Business.

September 23rd, 2009 SINGAPORE - ICIS pricing, the world's leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has launched a new weekly price report for Asian polyethylene (PE) pipe grade resins covering China and Southeast Asia. The release of the new report follows the successful launch of a similar report, Polyethylene Pipe Grade Middle East/South Asia report, last month.

September 13th, 2009 NEW YORK and LONDON - ICIS Chemical Business magazine has unveiled the ICIS Top 100 Chemical Companies, with rankings based on 2008 sales. "The results, spanning the global chemical industry, reflect a strong start to the year, followed by a collapse in the third and fourth quarters, triggered by the global financial and economic crisis that began in the US," said Joseph Chang, Global Editor of ICIS Chemical Business.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - In the last week, ICIS Heren has been quoted in four national newspapers, proving it's the UK's leading authority on energy prices. The energy industry is constantly in the news, and ICIS Heren would like to offer you access to our expert wholesale energy editors to help explain and provide expert opinion on the latest energy issues.

August 3rd, 2009 SINGAPORE - Key players in the region have welcomed the launch of new weekly Asia Ethylene and Polyethylene Margin reports from ICIS pricing, the leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry. With markets remaining highly volatile, the reports offer an authoritative and independent measure of producer cash costs and cash margins, essential for confident planning and negotiation by sellers, buyers and traders.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - ICIS pricing, the leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has launched new weekly price reports for polypropylene and polyethylene in Africa. The plastics market in Africa is growing at a significant pace and ICIS pricing is responding to this demand by establishing independent price assessments in Africa for polyethylene and polypropylene markets.

July 22nd, 2009 SINGAPORE - ICIS pricing, the world's leading price reporting service for the global chemical industry, has launched a new weekly price report for polyethylene (PE) pipe grade resins covering the Middle East and South Asia. The report arrives at a time of growth in the use of PE pipe grade in water supply and irrigation, and delivery of oil and gas.

June 24th, 2009 BERLIN - Corning Cable Systems GmbH & Co KG, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE: GLW) Telecommunications segment, announces that its FutureCom(TM) S500 shielded copper RJ45 module has received Cat.6A component certification, as per approved ISO/IEC 11802:2002 Amd 1.0 and 2.0 (draft March 2009) international standard. The two amendments (Amd.

May 24th, 2009 BERLIN - Corning Cable Systems GmbH & Co KG, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, will demonstrate its leadership and innovation in local area network (LAN) and data centre solutions at the 2009 DatacenterDynamics Conference, May 27, in Paris. Corning Cable Systems will showcase its Plug & Play(TM) Universal Systems, a preterminated optical fibre cabling system that streamlines the process of deploying an optical network infrastructure in the data centre environment.

April 19th, 2009 BERLIN, Germany - Corning Cable Systems GmbH & Co KG, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, will demonstrate its leadership and innovation in Plug and Play(TM) Universal Low-Loss Systems at the second 2009 Corning Customer Day at Berlin European Headquarters on Apr. 22. Corning Cable Systems Plug & Play Universal Low-Loss Systems are preterminated optical fibre cabling systems designed to dramatically improve performance for the increasing demand for high speeds in the data centre, enterprise building backbone and fibre-to-the-desk applications.

February 6th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - MobMe and Light Logics, two incubated companies based in Kerala's Technopark, have won national innovation awards, it was announced here Saturday. MobMe won the Nasscom Innovation Awards 2008 for the 'Most Innovative Start-up' and the Indian Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Parks and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) award for the 'Best Start-up ICT Company of 2008'.

August 24th, 2009 INDONESIA - Pressmart Media Ltd, (www.pressmart.com), a global leader in the digital publishing and delivery solutions, today announced the launch of "Pressmart-Indonesia Print Media Awards (IPMA)" in a bid to recognize the best publishing houses in Indonesia over the calendar year 2009, just after associating with the magazine publishers in Singapore, for its awards as the lead sponsor. IPMA will be conferred annually starting February, 2010, is the exciting new competition created to promote magazines, tabloids and newspapers - both in print and digital and also encourage the publishing industry in Indonesia.

September 30th, 2009 Budget Travel Extra Mile Awards for innovationNEW YORK — New services and features from Kayak.com, American Airlines, JetBlue, Google and TripAdvisor honored with Extra Mile Awards from Budget Travel magazine. The magazine gives the awards for developments that make travel "easier, more enjoyable and more affordable." The top 10 winners for 2009, listed in the magazine's October issue, are: —Kayak.com, for new features like search sharing, a real-time map of available airfare and an iPhone application.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Department of Science and Technology (DST) Monday launched the India Innovation Initiative (i3) in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and communication analyst Agilent Technologies. Under the initiative, DST will launch a nation-wide competition of technology-based ideas in which innovators above 18 years of age can participate.

July 14th, 2009 Federal jury awards $1.25 million in chemical leakLOUISVILLE, Ky. — A federal jury has ordered DuPont to pay more than $1.25 million to six people who were injured when fuming sulfuric acid spilled from an eastern Kentucky plant five years ago.

May 1st, 2009 Dow Chemical, Shaw Group and Expedia big moversNEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Dow Chemical Co., down 30 cents $15.70 A joint venture between Dow Chemical and Corning Inc., Dow Corning Corp., reported a 94 percent dropoff in first-quarter profits as demand for its silicone-based products such as adhesives and insulating materials plunged. Shaw Group Inc., down $3.13 at $30.40 Shares in the Hartford, Conn.-based engineering and construction company fell after the company announced a delay in work on a nuclear power plant in Florida.

August 4th, 2009 LONDON - A cookbook that can enable one to taste a dish before it is made is among the winners of the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), which have just been announced. It has been designed by Scott Shim of Ohio State University and Xi Calvin Chen of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's biotechnology major Biocon Ltd. Monday announced the setting up of a cell for innovation management at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business (ISB) with a corpus of Rs.1 crore.

June 12th, 2009 BANGALORE - A resilient India Inc is waiting for global recovery to start as the worst impact of the global meltdown seems to be over, an industry luminary said Friday. "The consensus opinion is that the worst is behind us.

March 13th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Magazine Publishers Association of Singapore (MPAS) with support from Pressmart has launched the first Singapore Magazine Awards to recognize the best magazine publishers in Singapore. Pressmart is the leading hosted print-to-online publishing service in the world with publishers from over 45 countries using its services and MPAS is an organization dedicated to best practices in Singapore's professional magazine publishing industry.