31.07.2013
- State oil firm Petronas will start up its $19 billion petrochemicals complex in Malaysia in 2018, the company told Reuters on Tuesday, signaling a further delay in the country's...
31.07.2013
- Big Pharma is still relying on belt-tightening to prop up financial results. Pfizer and Merck & Co said on Tuesday their quarterly results were again hit by generic competition for...
31.07.2013
- German chemicals company Wacker Chemie beat second-quarter earnings forecasts and said a plunge in the price of polysilicon, which it supplies to the crisis-hit solar sector, had...
31.07.2013
- Sales of the DuPont group were virtually flat in Q2 2013, with the slight revenue setback of 1% to $9.8 billion blamed on poor pricing for the titanium dioxide business it plans to...
31.07.2013
- U.S. chemical giant Dow Chemical saw adjusted EBITDA gain nearly 9% year-on-year to $ 2.1 billion in Q2 2013, thanks mainly to strong business in the Agricultural Science and...
31.07.2013
- In Q2 2013, sales of Rotterdam-based petrochemical and plastics giant LyondellBasell weakened by 1.3% year-on-year to $11.1 billion but improved by 4% against Q1 2013. EBITDA...
31.07.2013
- The world's largest chemical producer found the going tougher than expected in the first half of 2013. Sales revenue increased by 4% to €8.1 billion, and EBIT before special items...
31.07.2013
- After a strong first half, which saw operating profit rise nearly 14% to just under €2 billion and sales by 10.5% to €8.2 billion, German gases and engineering group Linde has...
30.07.2013
- Swiss speciality chemicals maker Clariant posted a better than expected second-quarter profit as it reaped gains from a restructuring and said it was slowly moving towards its...
30.07.2013
- U.S. government investigators said on Monday they still have few answers as to how an unapproved genetically altered wheat developed by Monsanto was found this spring growing in an...
