24.07.2013
- Predicting Threats And Opportunities - The transformation of the Chinese economy is a major topic in the media, covered by publications as diverse as The Wall Street Journal, Al...
24.07.2013
- Ideas In Jeopardy - For chemical companies doing business in China, few concerns are as ubiquitous as the risk of the theft or loss of intellectual property. Of all the forms of IP...
23.07.2013
- A disputed plan to build a $1.7 billion mine in one of Britain's best-known national parks has thrown a spotlight on the obscure mineral it will dig for, a fertilizer ingredient...
22.07.2013
- British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday some of its executives in China appeared to have broken the law in a bribery scandal, as it promised changes in its business model...
22.07.2013
- Growing World - During the last centuries the chemical industry has enabled the first and second industrial revolution, and also the longest period of wealth creation in human...
18.07.2013
- China announced a nationwide crackdown on the sale of illegal medicine on Wednesday and said it would tighten industry regulation, piling pressure on a sector already reeling from...
16.07.2013
- The oil and gas industry is finding that less is more in the push to recycle water used in hydraulic fracturing. Slightly dirty water, it seems, does just as good a job as crystal...
12.07.2013
- Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on...
03.07.2013
- Peru has abundant natural gas reserves, but President Ollanta Humala's $11.5 billion plan to use them to transform the country's underdeveloped south is facing mounting hurdles...
03.07.2013
- Ineos Oligomers has announced plans to build a new plant for linear alpha olefins (LAO) on the U.S. Gulf coast. Set to start up in 2016, the facility will have initial capacity of...