24.09.2013
- Total will start a "soft landing" next year to scale back heavy capital spending while keeping long-term output targets and generating greater cash flow, the French oil major said...
23.09.2013
- Great Expectations - Long gone are the days where the standard chemical distributor's job was to take products from one place to the next. In the modern supply chain, distributors...
11.09.2013
- Smooth Connection — Custom manufacturing isn't as easy as filling an order and calling it a day. The gears that interlink a CMO and its customer have to be well oiled and a perfect...
09.09.2013
- After the rapid slide in India's rupee this year, the message from the country's corporate titans to the government is clear: shape up and fix the problems or more companies will...
09.09.2013
- BASF Plant Science has opened its new $33 million research facility expansion at Research Triangle Park (RTP) in North Carolina, U.S.A. Along with office space, the enlarged...
09.09.2013
- The Next Level - Over the past 20 years, multinational companies have made considerable inroads into the Indian market, but many have failed to realize their potential: Some have...
03.09.2013
- In recent years, chemical players have managed their businesses with little clear direction in the light of continuing volatile markets. They aimed to address the key strategic...
03.09.2013
- French petrochemicals group Total is said to be close to announcing a shutdown of its loss-making steam cracker at Carling, in northeastern France. The cracker's viability is no...
26.08.2013
- Shale Gas is Rolling in U.S. - Although shale gas extraction has been known and performed to a limited extent for decades in the U.S., exploitation has become competitive only in...
21.08.2013
- Technologies for producing synthetic diesel from waste have failed to step up to rapidly rising U.S. biofuel targets, leaving the long-term future of those targets further in doubt...
