DSM has announced the successful completion of important research to determine the complete DNA sequence of a key production organism, the fungus Aspergillus niger.

Following up on earlier press releases.

The companies have formed OptoForm LLC, a joint venture that will focus on the development and commercialization of new equipment and materials for rapid tooling and direct and indirect in-line manufacturing processes.

Advanced facilities enabling customers and suppliers to execute automated business transactions with DSM.

DSM's statement, requested by the French COB to state its position on press comments about DSM breaking off its contacts regarding Rhodia.

DSM and Shandong Xinhua Pharmaceutical will jointly open a new plant and DSM has set up a joint venture with Harbin General Pharmaceutical Factory and Zhang Jia Kou Pharmaceutical Factory

The project involves an investment of around EUR 30 million and comes on top of a number of other expansions carried out this year to meet the fast growing market demand.

Transfer of the depository receipts will take place per the 28th December 2001.

This advanced and extremely thin film is used as ceramic green sheet for the manufacture of multilayer ceramic capacitors.

From 2002 onwards, virtually all DSM units will adopt standard procedures for a number of business processes.

By installing a puntbus (a small inoculum vessel), Annemarie Jorritsma, the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, today symbolically opened DSM's new plant for the production of 7-ADCA, an intermediate for antibiotics, in Delft, the Netherlands.

Net earnings per ordinary share amounted to EUR 0.99.

DSM, requested by the French COB (Commission des Operations de Bourse) to comment on the rumours, suggesting that DSM and BASF are preparing a bid on the shares of Rhodia.

Sauerbreij and DSM Board member Jan Dopper today signed a sponsorship deal in Heerlen (Netherlands).

Research at DSM to be organized as a global virtual laboratory.

The expanded laboratory facilities will enable DSM Biologics to offer its customers even better service and quality.

Higher than expected production costs combined with current business and economic conditions for Caprolactam in general, have lead to Evergreen's decision to suspend operations.

Siemens N.V. (Belgium) and DSM Research B.V. (Geleen, the Netherlands) signed a collaboration agreement for the sale and construction of ROFIRE® plants.

Acceleration of all processes and interactions between DSM and its customers and suppliers.

The three plants represent all the projects awarded so far in 2001, giving Stamicarbon a 100% score.

Net earnings per share amounted to EUR 1.05.

DSM High Performance Fibers will build a new Dyneema Uni-Directional (UD) facility in Greenville, NC (USA) on the site of DSM Catalytica Pharmaceuticals, a DSM company that produces fine chemicals for the pharmaceutical industry.

A team of DSM (the Netherlands) and the University of Leuven (Belgium) win 'The European Process Safety Centre Award 2001' awarded by the European Process Safety Centre (EPSC).

Dedicated facility in Capua, Italy operational.

DSM, the international life science products, performance materials and chemicals group, is seeking to bring its public image in line with reality.

Through Elemica, the world's biggest Internet-based marketplace of its kind.

The exclusive supplier of AA for the US company Martek Biosciences Corporation, which markets the AA/DHA oil blend for infant formulas in the United States of America is DSM Food Specialties.

DSM Biologics, a business unit of the DSM Fine Chemicals business group, today brought on stream a new 2,000-litre fermentation unit at its Montreal (Quebec, Canada) site for the preparation of biopharmaceuticals on the basis of cell cultures.

At EUR 1.79, net earnings per ordinary share were up 31% on Q1 2000 due to the sale of DSM Engineering Plastic Products.

Before the end of this year DSM Special Products Rotterdam will be launching new grades of benzoic acid and sodium benzoate.

Over the last ten years, the two plants in Geleen have not had a single lost-workday case.

Japan Fine Coatings Co., a 50/50 joint venture between DSM Desotech (Elgin, Illinois, USA) and JSR (Tokyo, Japan), has announced the completion of a new plant for the manufacture of DeSolite® UV-curable materials in Tsukuba (Japan).

DSM joint venture Evergreen Nylon Recycling first runner up U.S. "Technology of the Year" award.

The Dutch chemicals and biotechnology group DSM is to sponsor the Dutch sports body NOC*NSF and the Dutch Olympic team by becoming their ninth 'Partner in Sport'.

DSM recently acquired the Internet domain name dsm.com from the American company Direct Stock Market.

Mr Paul Hamm, currently director of the DSM Elastomers has been appointed director of DSM Corporate Venturing & Business Development with effect from 1 March 2001. He will be succeeded by Mr Ben van Kooten.

Quadrant Holding (Zürich, Switzerland) and DSM N.V. (Heerlen, The Netherlands) have reached agreement on the takeover of DSM's Engineering Plastic Products (EPP) business group with the effective date of 1 January 2001.

DSM Desotech Inc., a world leader in the development and supply of UV-curable materials, is expanding its operations with a new manufacturing facility in Stanley, North Carolina.

The company's current organizational structure, with its head office in Zwolle (Netherlands), is at odds with its pan-European strategy.

On Tuesday 13 February DSM and KPN Telecom signed a 5-year contract, worth over EUR 31 million, for the setting-up of the DSM Global Network.

DSM High Performance Fibers, the producer of Dyneema superstrong polyethylene fibre, is going to expand its production capacity.

DSM posted a record net sales figure of EUR 8.1 billion in 2000, up 28% on 1999.

Mr John Prooi (54) has been appointed director of Corporate Safety, Health, Environment and Manufacturing with effect from 1 February 2001.

DSM Engineering Plastics (DSM EP) has successfully started up its Stanyl plant in Geleen following a 30% capacity expansion.

BP and DSM announced today that they are working together to develop state-of-the-art tools and techniques to accelerate the development of new catalyst formulations for polyolefins.