28.11.2011
- China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec), China's top oil refiner, will delay the startup of a new 160,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude oil unit at its Jinling refinery until June...
28.11.2011
- Arkema is offloading its loss-making vinyl division to Switzerland's Klesch Group, as it refocuses on products that are less sensitive to volatility in raw material prices and the...
23.11.2011
- After Office Depot was picketed over its environmental practices in 2003, the big-box retailer made big changes. It cut off a paper supplier accused of illegal logging. It started...
23.11.2011
- Sibur, Eastern Europe and Russia's largest petrochemical company, is feeling the pinch from a sharp decline in global prices for its synthetic rubber and polymers, brought about by...
23.11.2011
- Many controversies surround hydraulic fracturing of underground shale deposits in the quest for oil and gas, but a small Canadian oilfield services company has pioneered a way...
23.11.2011
- Dutch pipe company Wavin said on Tuesday it had received a takeover offer from Mexico-based Mexichem, which also makes plastic pipe systems, sending its shares up more than 60%...
23.11.2011
- Greenhouse gases that cause climate change have reached record levels in the atmosphere and show no sign of receding, despite global awareness of the need to switch to alternative...
22.11.2011
- Diversified Indian conglomerate Piramal Group plans to lend up to $193 million to real estate projects in the current fiscal year to March as it focuses on building its newly...
21.11.2011
- Fertilizer and specialty chemicals maker Israel Chemicals (ICL) posted sharply higher third-quarter net profit, boosted by strong demand, price increases and acquisitions and sees...
