18.05.2010
- Being Nimble - The distribution sector did not make it through the economic downturn unscathed; however, companies with broad product portfolios, such as the IMCD Group, were able...
18.05.2010
- Joaquín Almunia, European commissioner for Competition and vice president of the European Commission, recently spoke to the advisory board of Germany's Mining, Chemical and Energy...
18.05.2010
- Recovery - Every part of the chemical industry has felt the impact of the recession, including chemical distributors. Companies who reacted quickly to the crisis when it began are...
18.05.2010
- Top management panel Chemical Customer Connectivity Index (C3X) is going to the next round with the objective of getting to the bottom of what is currently at the top of the...
17.05.2010
- A growing number of oil companies, trading houses and other international companies have stopped doing business with Iran this year amid a U.S. drive to isolate Tehran and...
17.05.2010
- Privately held Hexion Specialty Chemicals posted a first-quarter loss, though revenue and demand for its products jumped. The company reported a net loss of $7 million compared...
12.05.2010
- Royal Dutch Shell's new Singapore ethylene cracker is operating at around 70% of capacity and is using some 30,000 tons a month or more of naphtha as feedstock, traders said on...
07.05.2010
- The German advertising tagline "greed is good" is now outmoded as a basic principle of purchasing. A low purchase price does not mean that a product is actually inexpensive...
07.05.2010
- BP engineers were expected to lower a massive metal containment chamber onto a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday in an effort to stem the widening slick. If all...
05.05.2010
- The shares of companies that make products used to counteract the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico jumped on Monday, as industry and government officials frantically tried to stop...
