Bilal Al- Qureshi‚ Said Business School‚ University of Oxford 2010 American Chemical Corporation HBS Case Number: 9-290-102 Executive Summary The American Chemical Corporation (AMC) is a large‚ diversified chemical producer. In 1979‚ AMC was forced to issue a tender to sell a Sodium Chlorate plant‚ near Collinsville‚ Alabama. Dixon‚ a specialty chemicals company‚ was willing to purchase the aforementioned plant for $12m with the option to invest a further $2.25m on laminate technology. The
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Abstact 1) Introduction An adulterant is a chemical substance which should not be contained within other substances‚ such as food‚ beverages‚ fuels‚ for legal or other reasons. The addition of adulterants is called adulteration. The word is appropriate only when the additions are unwanted by the recipient. Otherwise the expression would be food additive. Adulterants when used in illicit drugs are called cutting agents‚ while deliberate addition of toxic adulterants to food or other products
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Introduction The following report shows that the proposal of the modernisation project should obtain funding from the corporate headquarters of Victoria Chemicals. The project has an initial outlay of GBP12 million to renovate and rationalise the polypropylene production line at Merseyside plant. This is done in order to make up for deferred maintenance and exploit opportunities to achieve increased efficiency. This report will look at the following four main areas of concern in order
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Chemical equilibrium is the point at which the concentrations of reactants and products do not change with time. It would appear as if the reaction has stopped‚ but in fact‚ the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal‚ causing the reactants and products to be created at the same rate. This can be expressed mathematically in the form of the equilibrium constant. The following is the general equation for a reversible chemical reaction: aA+bB →cC+dD
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Josh Crowder 103915953 70-360 Whirland Chemical Company There are a number of factors with Whirland Chemical Company that raise concern and increase the audit risk of this company. We will go over the major concerns one by one‚ and then determine the level of audit risk we are willing to accept on this engagement. * a) b) * First of all‚ we are auditing Whirland for the first time. Because this is the first time we are auditing Whirland‚ a lot of research has
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Applied Corporate Finance Case: American Chemical Corporation The primary issue we are exploring here is the planned sale of the Collinsville Plant by American Chemical Corporation to Dixon at a negotiated price of $ 12 Million (as of end of year ‘79) Q1: Estimate the appropriate cost of capital for the investment To calculate the appropriate cost of capital we assessed Dixon’s purchase investment structure. The steps were as follows: 1. We first calculated the cost of debt of the investment using
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Dow Chemical Case Question 1 Polyethylene is the world’s most widely used plastic. Polyethylene plastic’s principal application was in packaging‚ from trash bags to milk jugs. It was widely used in the manufacture of everything from trash bags‚ picnic cutlery and garbage pails‚ to plastic toys. Polyethylene also replaced glass‚ wood‚ and metal in certain applications. There were three types of polyethylene‚ Low-density polyethylene‚ High density polyethylene and Low linear density polyethylene
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r Lab Report 5 Introduction to the Classes of Chemical Reactions Course: Chem. 1151L‚ Tuesday & Thursday June 23‚ 2011 Mr. Nasir Uddin Pre Lab Questions: 1. CaBr2 (aq) + K3PO4 (aq) → CA(PO4)2(S) + KBr (aq) = Ca3(PO4)2 + 6 KBr Double Replacement 2. Li(s) + O2(g) = Li2O(s) =2 Li2O Decomposition 3. CH4 + O2 = CO2 + H2O = CO2 + 2 H2O Combination 4. AgBr(s) = Ag (s) + Br2(l) = 2 Ag + Br2 Combination 5. Mg(s) + H2SO4 (aq) = MgSO4 + H2
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Introduction: 1) This report considers the potential purchase of the sodium chlorate producing plant in Collinsville‚ Alabama by Dixon Corporation from American Chemical Corporation in October 1979. The reason for this stems from the fact that American Chemical Corporation was attempting at the time to buy a controlling stake in Universal Paper Corporation‚ but the management of Universal contested this on the basis that it would be anti-competitive‚ given that they were both producers of sodium
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Determination of Chemical Formulae: The Reaction of Zinc and Iodine By Sarah Abstract: The main objective of this experiment was to use to the reaction between zinc and iodine to examine the validity of the Law of Conservation of Mass and the Law of Constant Composition. The Law of Constant Composition was tested by determining the mass of each of the reactants‚ zinc and iodine‚ and comparing their total to the mass of the zinc iodide product plus the excess zinc. The total mass of the reactants
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