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Momentive Specialty Chemicals Announces First Quarter 2013 Results

14.05.2013 - Momentive Specialty Chemicals today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Results for the first quarter of 2013 include: Revenues of $1.2 billion versus $1...

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Aesica Enters Research Collaboration with University of Nottingham

14.05.2013 - Aesica, the global contract manufacturing organisation (CMO), announces a partnership with the University of Nottingham for the commercial development of alternative methods in...

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AkzoNobel Appoints Marten Boosima as Chief HR Officer

14.05.2013 - AkzoNobel announced the appointment of Marten Booisma as the company's new Executive Committee Member responsible for Human Resources. He will officially take up the position of...

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Prices, Royalties Concerns Cloud Israel Chemicals Profit

13.05.2013 - Israel Chemicals (ICL)'s forecast-beating first-quarter profits were overshadowed by worries about potash prices on Monday, and a government proposal to examine state royalties on...

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Asian Petrochemical Firms Risk High-end Chemicals Deluge

13.05.2013 - Petrochemical firms risk creating a glut of high-end products in Asia as they invest billions of dollars to move up a value chain threatened at the bottom end by cheap U.S...

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Bayer's Plastics Chief Sees Room to Raise Prices

10.05.2013 - Bayer suggested there was room to lift prices at its high-tech plastics and chemicals business this year to counter soaring raw material costs that squeezed first quarter margins...

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US Engineers Dominate List of Starting Salaries

10.05.2013 - Engineering graduates in the US continued to dominate the list of starting salaries in the latest survey published by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)...

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Brenntag Reinforces Position in Challenging Macroeconomic Environment

08.05.2013 - The chemical distributor Brenntag recorded growth in sales and gross profit compared with the first quarter of the previous year. The company again achieved stable business...