H.B. Fuller Announces Regular Quarterly Dividend - Chemical Outlook - Independent industry news, analysis and business information for chemicals makers and users

ST. PAUL, Minn.--July 2, 2001--H.B. Fuller Company announced that the board of directors voted to approve the regular quarterly dividend of $0.215 per share of common stock and $0.0833 per share on all preferred stock. The dividend is payable August 10, 2001 to shareholders of record July 20, 2001.

H.B. Fuller Company is a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of adhesives, sealants, coatings, paints and other specialty chemical products, with fiscal 2000 sales of $1.353 billion. Common stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol FULL. For more information about the company, visit the web site at http://www.hbfuller.com.

ANDERSON, Ind.--June 14, 2001--Magnequench Inc.(R) (MQI), a global industry-leading supplier of permanent magnets materials and magnetic systems, is proud to announce its release of a new spherical isotropic powder product MQP(TM)-S-9-8.

HOUSTON--Sept. 20, 2001--EZUtilities (Pink Sheets:EZUT) announced today that it is merging with Texas Commercial Resources Inc. of Houston. Effective Sept. 21, 2001, the new name for the company will be Texas Commercial Resources Inc. and the new stock symbol will be TCRI.

DUSSELDORF, Germany (September 24, 2001) – Degussa AG is to begin fully-automated order processing via Elemica, an e-marketplace serving the chemicals industry.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (September 24, 2001) – Aspen Technology (aspentech.com) has announced the release of its Aspen Capable-to-Promise, a supply chain and e-business solution designed to allow process manufacturers to streamline and optimize their sales order commitment process.

AUSTIN, Texas--Sept. 24, 2001--Loch Harris, Inc., a Nevada corporation announced today that its Board of Directors has set the date of record and unanimously approved a plan to spin-off approximately 48,000,000 shares of the common stock that Loch currently owns in CDEX-Inc. (CDEX), a Nevada corporation.

PITTSBURGH--Sept. 21, 2001--Dan Boivin, President - Olefins / Polyolefins Retires; Dale Spiess Named Successor.

TOULOUSE, France (September 22, 2001) – An explosion devastated a chemical plant in Toulouse, France, on Friday killing 18 people and injuring 200, according to a report by the Associated Press. Around 15 people were reported missing.

DURHAM, North Carolina (September 24, 2001) – Celanese Chemicals, in collaboration with Clarkston (clarkstongroup.com), a business and information technology consulting firm, has announced the completion of its online customer outreach systems (celanese.com).

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (September 24, 2001) – Aspen Technology (aspentech.com) has announced the completion of a project to apply a state-of-the-art production control solution at the BASF (basf.com) steam cracker plant, located in Antwerp, Belgium.

ALPHARETTA, Georgia (June 18, 2001) – RubberNetwork.com (rubbernetwork.com), a global electronic purchasing and procurement marketplace created by nine companies in the tire and rubber industry, has named John Garrison as its new Chief Technology Officer.

SAN ANTONIO--June 15, 2001--TriLucent Technologies Corp. today announced that it has appointed Donald G. Russell, chairman of its board of directors.

INDIANAPOLIS--June 15, 2001--Cohesant Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:COHT) today reported record sales and earnings for its fiscal 2001 second quarter and six months ended May 31, 2001.

BRUSSELS (June 14, 2001) -- The new management of Bluegate, an e-business software provider, has discovered accounting irregularities, product delays and a pending lawsuit that put the company's future viability in doubt.

WILMINGTON, Delaware (June 18, 2001) – DuPont has selected CheMatch to provide a full suite of solutions via CheMatch Auctions.

LOS ANGELES--June 18, 2001--Rubber Technology International, Inc.'s (OTCBB:RTEK), President and CEO, Trevor Webb, announced today that the Company has formed a strategic alliance with Western Rubber Products, Ltd. of British Columbia, Canada.

DRAPER, Utah--June 18, 2001--Headwaters Inc. (Nasdaq: HDWR) Monday announced two changes in its board membership.

ATLANTA (June 4, 2001) -- Omnexus (www.omnexus.com), an online hub for the plastics industry, has teamed with IQMS Software to enable all users of the IQMS EnterpriseIQ ERP system to link to Omnexus and its members.

FRAMINGHAM, Massachusetts (June 4, 2001) -- Despite the challenges facing their industry, new research from IDC indicates that application service provider (ASP) revenues are growing at a compound annual rate of 89%, which should grow the market from $986 million in 2000 to nearly $24 billion by 2005.

SUMMIT, New Jersey (June 4, 2001) -- Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG, plans to add product management and design collaboration services to its website through an alliance with Conferos Inc.

WAYNE, Pennsylvania (November 20, 2002) -- Elemica, a transaction hub for buyers and sellers of chemicals and related products, says it has executed the first electronic transactions for Bayer AG and Degussa with a leading global tire manufacturing customer.