24.03.2010
- Unfortunately, chemical supply chains are better compared with a sluggish container ship than an agile bark: Apart from experience and foresight, their navigation requires state-of...
24.03.2010
- Balance Act - In this economy, cash is king, and much emphasis has been placed on inventory reductions. In many cases, management has issued inventory goals that seem impossible to...
23.03.2010
- Drugmakers Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline signed a landmark 10-year deal on Tuesday to supply 60 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations. The deal...
23.03.2010
- In the coming weeks, the capacity expansion program for chlorotoluenes, cresols and their derivatives that Lanxess announced in late October 2008 will reach completion, the company...
22.03.2010
- Israel Chemicals (ICL) said on Monday that it has signed new potash supply contracts in India, for the second time in less than a week. ICL, the world's sixth-largest maker of...
18.03.2010
- World No. 2 industrial gases group Linde said cost cuts would boost earnings across the group this year and profit at its gases business would hit a fresh high, although the...
17.03.2010
- Germany's Linde, the world's number two industrial gases producer, forecast higher sales and earnings this year, helped by cost cuts and improving demand. "The measures we have...
15.03.2010
- Flexible Alternative - The search for the ideal packaging solution is a traditional feature of industrial activity. Schütz from Selters, Germany, has always adapted its product...
15.03.2010
- Hot Topic - Flame retardants are nowadays rarely out of the news. The European Parliament is currently discussing their future in electronic equipment, and brand name companies...
15.03.2010
- Litmus Test - One of the first big items on the agenda of the new European Parliament Environment Committee is the revision of the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive...
