Co-operative Agreements

Among the many deals, only a few may be mentioned here. Arkema and Ciba Specialty Chemicals signed a global cooperation agreement enabling Ciba to distribute Arkema s Pebax permanent antistatic agents. They are polyether block amides intended for use in ABS, polystyrene and PVC. The two companies are also co-operating in research and development in the same area. Ciba has also become the exclusive distributor outside Asia of Kanebo Chemical s silver-based antimicrobial products for polymers. They are said to be effective, safe and heat-resistant to over 200 °C. 

Great Lakes has joined with Laurel Industries, part of Occidental Petroleum (OxyChem) to form a 50 50 JV called GLCC Lamel LLC. The JV was intended to compete with cheap Chinese antimony imports by producing and marketing antimony-based flame retardants, synergists, and catalysts. Great Lakes has the responsibility for sales, customer service, techiucal support, credit and logistics. 

Great Lakes Chemical has also agreed to set up a JV with Teijin Chemicals to supply brominated carbonate oligomer flame retardants for use in engineering polymers. 

Albemarle entered into an agreement in 1999/2000 with Borax, part of Rio Tinto, to collaborate in the development of nonhalogen flame retardants, particularly borates. As a result Albemarle was able to offer zinc borate flame retardants for sale in Asia. More recently Rio Tinto and its subsidiary Borax Europe Ltd. transferred responsibility for the sale of those zinc borate grades intended for polymer formulation purposes to Luzenac. 

AtoFina Ciba Specialty Chemicals Antistatic agents — 2001 

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Rao, P.S.C. et al. (1984) Degradation and sorption of aldicarb and metolachlor in Dougherty Plains soils. Progress report to U.S. EPA of EPA Co-operative Agreement CR-810464. 

The NEA Data Bank provides nuclear data and computer program services for participating countries. In these and related tasks, the NEA works in close collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, with which it has a Co-operation Agreement, as well as with other international organisations in the nuclear field. 

The authors would like to thank J. Irby for electron density measurements, A. Hubbard for electron temperature measurements and the Alcator C-Mod operations groups for expert running of the tokamak. Work supported at MIT by DoE Co-operative Agreement No. DE-FC02-99ER54512. This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. 

This work was supported in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, Co-operative Agreement No. U07/CCU012926). 

Other research activities related to residential exposure assessment currently being sponsored by the USEPA include the National Human Exposure Assessment Survey (NHEXAS) (website http //www.epa.gov/heasd/edrb/nhexas.htm). In addition, the USEPA concluded a Co-operative Agreement, referred to as the Residential Exposure Assessment Project (REAP) with the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA) which resulted in a reference textbook (Baker et al, 2001) describing relevant methodologies, data sources and research needs for residential exposure assessment. The REAP and other efforts complement other USEPA initiatives, such as the development of the Series 875 guidelines, and will facilitate a sharing of information and other resources between the USEPA, other Federal and State agencies, industry, academia and other interested parties. 

This work was supported by the U.S. EPA, USAF, and IIT Research Institute through a U.S. EPA co-operative agreement CR-811529-01-0. 

This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under Co-operative Agreement No. 58-7b30-3-564. 

CFR109-43.307-50(b) 4.4.4.2 When chemicals subject to export controls are transferred under woik-for-others agreements, co-operative agreements, or technical programs, the recipients will be informed in writing about export control restrictions that must be followed in the event of a change in custody of the materials. 

Recently a company named Promaps AS is founded as owner and responsible for the program PROMAPS and a co-operation agreement with Troll Power and Tarris Digernes MathConsult are established. 

In 1993, a thorough review of the project started in the framework of a co-operation agreement between ENEA (Italy) and the University of Rome "La Sapienza", with the mm at developing a basic design and at performing a Preliminary Safety Report of MARS nuclear plant, to be submitted to the Italian Nuclear Safety Authority. The Preliminary Safety Report was completed in May 1994. 

The clerical assistance of Ms. Doris Donnell is appreciated. This investigation was supported by research co-operative agreement 23-818 from the USDA-NEFES (JEM-WVD), a Sigma Xi-Grant-in-Aid Award (RT) and Atlanta University NIH-RCMI Biomedical Grant G12RR03062. 

Mariti, P., Smiley, R. H. (1996). Co-operative agreements and the organization of industry. In P. J. Buckley J. Michie (Eds.), Firms, organizations and contracts A reader in industrial organization (pp. 276-292). New York Oxford University Press. 

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