Keyword: chemical industry
Markets & Companies
23.03.2015
- In February 2013, the Carlyle Group completed its acquisition of DuPont's Performance Coatings business for US$4.9 billion. Upon becoming an independent company, the business was...
Markets & Companies
13.03.2015
- The worldwide chemicals economy withstood the strong headwinds battering the industry again in 2014. Financial results reported by companies in Europe and North America showed a...
News
09.03.2015
- The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is launching an advertising campaign in US publications pointing to what it sees as a dismissal of bisphenol A (BPA) as a health threat...
News
25.02.2015
- With activist investors continuing to make headlines in the chemical industry, especially in the US, the struggles of Dow, DuPont and Botox producer Allergan are cases in point -...
Logistics & Supply Chain
20.01.2015
- Elements of supply-chain (SC) design at Dow are a sound work process, modeling capability, resiliency study, customs and duties, and carbon footprint, which together will make the...
Strategy & Management
20.01.2015
- In the chemicals industry, electronic business-to-business (B2B) interactions between buyers and sellers typically rely upon tried-and-tested tools and techniques. These approaches...
Strategy & Management
20.01.2015
- The European chemical industry's share of the global market remains on a downward trajectory in continuation of the negative trend visible to observers for years. Europe's chemical...
Markets & Companies
20.01.2015
- The development of shale gas and the resulting low prices for natural gas in the United States have resulted in a major change in the production costs of plastics. According to the...
