09.01.2012
- President Barack Obama will press U.S. business leaders this week to expand their industries at home rather than outsourcing jobs abroad, extending an election-year push to fight...
05.01.2012
- Shenzhen, a boomtown in China's southern manufacturing hub, will increase the minimum wage by 13.6% in February, the local government said, adding further pressure to exporters who...
05.01.2012
- German chemical distributor Brenntag said its deliveries of industrial silicon to the now-defunct French breast implant manufacturer PIP were properly executed. "We confirmed in...
03.01.2012
- Huntsman has acquired EMA Kimya Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret, an MDI-based polyurethanes systems house in Istanbul, Turkey. As a result of the deal, EMA will become part of...
01.01.2012
- Siemens said it is working to fix security flaws in industrial controls products that the U.S. government warned could make public utilities, hospitals and other critical parts of...
22.12.2011
- Exxon Mobil plans to merge two of its products divisions, a sign of the times for big oil companies, which generally are sharpening their corporate focus on the growing challenges...
22.12.2011
- GlaxoSmithKline executive German Pasteris is in charge of an Alzheimer's treatment that is years from reaching the market, if it ever does. But he already wants to make sure the...
22.12.2011
- The European Union on Tuesday strengthened export controls on drugs that can be used to administer the death penalty, putting a further squeeze on a supply shortage that has slowed...
22.12.2011
- ThyssenKrupp may consider demanding compensation from its former chief executive and other managers for investments made in steel plants in Brazil and the United States. The firm...
- These are uncertain times. With Europe's leaders in a desperate race against time to prevent the sovereign debt crisis spreading across the continent and the global economy, rarely...
