07.05.2012
- Dutch food ingredients company CSM has put its bakery supplies unit up for sale to focus on more profitable food and chemical products based on natural ingredients such as sugar...
04.05.2012
- The cost of Royal Dutch Shell and PetroChina's Australian joint venture LNG may rise as much as 50% from initial estimates, which could force the companies to delay development, a...
04.05.2012
- U.S. health officials said the number of new shortages of crucial drugs used to treat cancer and other illnesses had been halved compared to a year ago, and attributed the...
03.05.2012
- Airgas posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit, hiked its dividend 25%, and named a new chief executive so its founder can focus more on growth projects, all bullish signs...
02.05.2012
- (CHEManager Europe 5/2012) The world is very far from running out of oil. However, it's possible, though far from certain, that oil prices will spike in the years ahead. Emerging...
02.05.2012
- Delta Air Lines announced officially yesterday that the company will buy an oil refinery from ConocoPhillips for $180 million. With this audacious bid to save money on fuel costs...
30.04.2012
- Chemical maker LyondellBasell Industries's quarterly revenue missed Wall Street's expectations and profit was drained by high supply costs in Europe and Asia, sending shares down 6...
27.04.2012
- The European Union's bioethanol industry looks set to expand production later this year, with U.S. imports expected to fall sharply following the closure of a tariff loophole...
27.04.2012
- A European Union plan to tighten drug packaging rules in a bid to stamp out counterfeits has triggered a row between makers of big name medicines and those producing cheap generics...
27.04.2012
- BASF had a solid start to 2012. Sales were higher than in the very good first quarter of the previous year and rose 6% to €20.6 billion. Income from operations (EBIT) before...