24.03.2015
- The sharp drop in oil prices in the second half of last year is causing some dilemmas not only for individual chemical producers in Europe, particularly those making petrochemicals...
13.03.2015
- The worldwide chemicals economy withstood the strong headwinds battering the industry again in 2014. Financial results reported by companies in Europe and North America showed a...
11.02.2015
- US oil group Chevron has announced plans to pull out of Polish shale gas exploration, commenting that exploiting the country's reserves there "no longer compares favorably" with...
26.01.2015
- French drugmaker Sanofi will pay its former chief executive Chris Viehbacher, fired by the company in October 2014, a severance package worth €4.4 million in total, including fixed...
20.01.2015
- The development of shale gas and the resulting low prices for natural gas in the United States have resulted in a major change in the production costs of plastics. According to the...
05.01.2015
- Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings plans to merge its carbon fiber-related businesses, currently part of separate group companies, during 2015. The Japanese conglomerate said the move is...
17.12.2014
- The US Chemical Safety Board has identified process safety management (PSM) as a key area in which it sees scope for improvement in facilities dealing with chemicals. Appointed by...
25.11.2014
- During the last decade especially, globalization has resulted in stretched supply chains and increased risk. Because of the inherent lack of control across the multiple external...
24.11.2014
- Several sources, both among our consulting clients and among industry experts, have remarked that recently, domestic chemical companies have been able to achieve faster sales...
19.11.2014
- The two words on everyone's lips in recent years in the energy industry have been "shale boom." This article will lay out JBC Energy's view of the future of the U.S. shale boom and...
