	chemie linz expects sharply higher loss state owned chemie linz ag is likely to record a loss of some mln schillings compared with a mln loss in a company spokesman said falling sales and lower world prices of fertilisers were largely responsible for the sharp increase along with the effects of the dollar s fall which has helped to give u s fibre producers a competitive edge he told reuters the firm would have made a small profit in had it not been for mln schillings lost by subsidiary merx handelsgesmbh on oil trading merx has since withdrawn from the oil market the firm will announce results in july reuter 
