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Ciba‐Geigy Pigments has announced the commissioning of new pigments production and processing plants at its headquarters in Paisley, Renfrewshire, 40 years after pigments production began there. Representing an investment of £39 million when fully completed, the new plants include production facilities for azo and phthalocyanine pigments and a pigments grinding unit, using internaly developed technology.

CIBA‐Geigy recently celebrated its 50th anniversary of operations at Duxford, near Cambridge, the home of Araldite resins for adhesives and surface coatings. The following brief history of the site is taken from a new booklet published by CIBA‐Geigy to mark its anniversary.

A new antitoxidant, Irganox L130, has recently been introduced by Ciba‐Geigy and has stirred up considerable interest against the current background of shortages and rising prices for some phenolic antitoxidants.

Allan A. S. Rae has been appointed as the new chairman of CIBA‐Geigy (U.K.) Ltd., The Clayton Aniline Company Ltd., CIBA‐Geigy Chemicals Ltd. and Ilford Ltd. Mr Rae succeeds Lord Harvey of Prestbury who retired but continues as a Director of the parent company CIBA‐Geigy AG, Basle, and in the U.K. will act as consultant and adviser to Mr Rae.

New technology developed by CIBA‐GEIGY (UK), in collaboration with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, looks like providing a breakthrough in the control of scale in high temperature desalination plant. CIBA‐GEIGY are claiming that the product, based on a polymeric carboxylic acid, is effective with brine temperatures up to 250°F, has minimal handling, storage and corrosion problems and will reduce operating and capital costs on new high temperature plants. The company has designated the product Belgard EV and it is an extension of the recently introduced Belgard 800 range of water treatment chemicals.

This paper analyses the strategy of Ciba‐Geigy′s industrial division at three hierarchical levels, concentrating on subsidiary strategy in the Classical Pigments business. The analysis makes use of a number of models: the BCG matrix, White and Poynter′s model of subsidiary strategy, Porter′s configuration‐co‐ordination paradigm, and Prahalad and Doz’s integration‐responsiveness framework. The strengths and weaknesses of each are evaluated within this particular industrial environment. The main conclusion of the paper is that use of these four alternative analytical perspectives yields a more holistic view of strategy in the Classical Pigments business.

Epoxy resins are compounds which contain in their molecule more than one 1,2 epoxy group capable of undergoing polyreactions, referred to as curing reactions. The presence of epoxy groups may be either internal, terminal or on cyclic structures. Polyreactions take place at varying temperatures from low room temperature cure to high temperature cure systems upon addition of curing agents such as amines, amides or carboxylic acid anhydrides. The uncured resins which range from low viscosity liquids to high melting solids, soluble in organic solvents, become insoluble, infusible hard materials on curing due to crosslinked structure of the cured products.

Last summer, in the heat of the fierce bidding battle for Conoco, press criticism of acquisitions and mergers was also heating up. Time magazine expressed some “Big Doubts About Big Deals.” Newsweek explored “The New Urge to Merge,” and wondered “Is Business Getting Too Big?” Fortune was a lonely holdout on the newsstand as it pleaded, “Don't Stop the Mating Game.”

Dr. William Carr, technical manager of the Physical Laboratories of CIBA‐GEIGY (UK) Ltd's Pigments Division at Wythenshawe, Manchester, is to be seconded to the Department of Colour Chemistry at the University of Leeds and the title of CIBA‐GEIGY senior research fellow has been conferred upon him.

THE routes to producing accurate composite tooling capable of working at elevated temperatures are described in this article by Norman Brain, Ciba‐Geigy Plastics.