13.01.2012
- The pharmaceutical supply chain is increasingly globalized. It is estimated that 80% of the active ingredients used in generic medicines marketed in the U.S. are manufactured in...
BASF has commissioned the world's largest oleum/sulphuric acid plant at its integrated production site in Antwerp,Belgium. The industrial plant will produce 420,000 tons...
10.01.2012
- Linde is acquiring the European homecare business of U.S. rival Air Products and Products in a $750 million deal that will thrust the German industrial gases maker into No.2...
10.01.2012
- Currency hedging, dollar costs and the potential for a deeper economic crisis stand between European exporters and any easy win from weakness in the euro currency. The euro has...
10.01.2012
- A joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell's China units and Tianjin State Farms Agribusiness Group will build a 200,000 cubic meter oil products storage facility in the northern...
09.01.2012
- President Barack Obama will press U.S. business leaders this week to expand their industries at home rather than outsourcing jobs abroad, extending an election-year push to fight...
09.01.2012
- Crude oil throughput and oil product output by China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec Group) increased 2.7% from a year earlier in 2011, Asia's largest refiner said. The parent of China...
09.01.2012
- Chinese fertilizer producer Sinofert Holdings said on Monday that it will buy a phosphate mining company for 1.38 billion yuan ($218.72 million), looking to tap abundant phosphate...
05.01.2012
- Sinopec said it aims to more than double its equity oil output from overseas projects to over 1 million barrels per day (bpd) by 2015 from 2011, the largest Chinese oil company by...
05.01.2012
- Shenzhen, a boomtown in China's southern manufacturing hub, will increase the minimum wage by 13.6% in February, the local government said, adding further pressure to exporters who...
