23.02.2013
- U.S. farmers are clamoring for more drought-hardy corn seeds as the spring planting season nears and soils remain parched across large swaths of key growing areas, the head of one...
21.02.2013
- Dow Chemical on Wednesday was ordered by a federal jury to pay $400 million in a price-fixing case over chemicals used to make a wide range of foam products found in cars...
19.02.2013
- Top oil trader Vitol is increasingly dominant in European oil markets, taking a stranglehold on Urals crude to the Mediterranean and the naphtha and gas oil markets that rival...
12.02.2013
- Booming shale gas production is reshaping the energy outlook in the United States and Washington must re-examine how it regulates natural gas development and exports, lawmakers...
12.02.2013
- Brazil's big sugarcane mills have begun to invest in ethanol production again, after licking their wounds from years of slim margins, as an expanding crop and favorable government...
31.01.2013
- Business in Great Britain - Since 2008, the UK chemical industry has gone through one of the biggest downturns in production of all the world's leading producers of chemicals. Now...
31.01.2013
- Dow Chemical posted lower-than-expected adjusted profit on Thursday, as demand withered for polyurethane and chlorine around the world, especially in China and Europe. For the...
29.01.2013
- Made in the USA - The United States is currently experiencing a re-industrialization that, until a few years ago, hardly anyone had thought possible. Car manufacturers such as...