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Ciba Specialty Chemicals is a chemical company based in and near Basel, Switzerland. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Ciba. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... Location within Switzerland Basel (English traditionally: Basle , German: Basel , French Bâle , Italian Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel...


They make products in the following areas: Agriculture, Automotive, Construction & Pipes, Electronic materials, Extractive & Process Technologies, Home & Fabric Care, Inks & Graphics, Lubricants, Monomers & Water Soluble Polymers, Packaging, Paints and Coatings, Paper, Personal Care, Photo & Digital Imaging, Plastics & Rubber, Textiles & Fibers, Water treatment [1] Car redirects here. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... Look up pipe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an image or text. ... Jump to: navigation, search Graphics are visual presentations on some surface such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper or stone to inform, illustrate or entertain. ... A lubricant (colloquially, lube) is a substance introduced between two moving surfaces to reduce the friction and wear between them. ... In chemistry, a monomer (from Greek mono one and meros part) is a small molecule that may become chemically bonded to other monomers to form a polymer. ... A polymer is a long, repeating chain of atoms, formed through the linkage of many molecules called monomers. ... Packaging is the enclosing of a physical object, typically a product that will be offered for sale. ... For information on the U.S. borough, see Paint, Pennsylvania. ... A coating is a covering, usually liquid, that is put on to protect, or change the appearance of something. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, typically from a physical object. ... The term plastics covers a range of synthetic or semi-synthetic organic condensation or polymerization products that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or fibers. ... Rubber is an elastic hydrocarbon polymer which occurs as a milky emulsion (known as latex) in the sap of a number of plants but can also be produced synthetically. ... This article is about the type of fabric. ... For the meaning of fiber in nutrition, see dietary fiber. ... Water treatment may mean: sewage treatment for the treatment of sewage or other wastewater water purification for the treatment of drinking water to make it potable or suitable for human consumption industrial water treatment for the treatment of water used in industry, often in closed systems This is a disambiguation...


The company is listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange (stock symbol: CIBN). SWX Swiss Exchange is Switzerlands stock exchange. ... A stock symbol or ticker symbol is a shorthand code used to uniquely identify shares of a publicly-traded corporation on a particular stock market. ...


External links

  • Ciba Specialty Chemicals
  • History of Ciba at cibasc.com
  • (http://www.hkc22.com/watermarketsworldwide.html) the development of the water markets

and water treatment chemicals worldwide, technologies, markets, companies and the future development



 

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