19.07.2012
- Nestle has bought a stake in U.S. firm Accera to support the rollout of a medical food brand for Alzheimer's patients, as the world's biggest food group seeks to expand in the...
19.07.2012
- America's shale oil boom is great news for U.S. industry, jobs and consumers, but it could cost global refiners billions. Banking on rising demand for transport fuels, oil...
19.07.2012
- Chemical company Georgia Gulf reached a US-$2.1 billion deal to absorb PPG Industries's commodity chemicals business, nearly doubling its size and making it one the largest players...
19.07.2012
- Actelion raised its earnings outlook for 2012 on Thursday as cost cuts helped Europe's biggest biotech company to post a first-half profit despite its most important drug facing...
19.07.2012
- Swiss drugmaker Novartis posted a smaller than expected fall in second-quarter core earnings and said tight cost control and strong sales of new drugs would help it cope with a...
19.07.2012
- Poland's chemical maker Ciech plans to take around a 450 million zloty ($132.57 million) impairment charge in the second quarter and lay off 10% of its staff as part of a shake-up...
19.07.2012
- Styrolution announced the inauguration of its Luran S plant located in Ulsan, South Korea. Luran S is the brand name for Styrolution's styrene acrylonitrile copolymers that have...
19.07.2012
- BASF, through its global Catalysts division, is investing to further expand and modernize its emissions catalysts production facility in Nienburg, Lower Saxony. The company is...
19.07.2012
- AkzoNobel reported an 8% increase in second quarter revenue compared with the same period in 2011, mainly driven by pricing actions to offset higher raw material costs and currency...
19.07.2012
- The chemical distributor Brenntag completed the acquisition of the entire business of the ISM/Salkat Group. ISM/Salkat Group is a distributor of specialty chemicals in Australia...
