FMC Corporation has appointed Thomas Schneberger vice president, global business director of Alkali Chemicals. He will manage the specialty chemical company's global alkali business, the leading producer of soda ash in North America. Most ...
Northwest European fuel oil cracks have slumped to four-month lows after Brent crude prices rallied on political turmoil in Egypt. The high sulfur fuel oil barge crack -- the discount of FOB Rotterdam 3.5% sulfur fuel oil barges to Dated ...
Pie Five Pizza, a US-based pizza chain, has introduced new Chicken Awesome-Cado pie, just in time for the Summer 2013. The new Chicken Awesome-Cado is handcrafted and features all natural chicken breast, Hass avocados, diced Roma tomatoes ...
Tags: Pie, Chicken Awesome-Cado, Pie Five Pizza
The oil complex settled lower Monday on bearish China data and increased OPEC production, amid weak fundamentals in the US. NYMEX June crude settled 87 cents lower at $95.17/barrel, having traded in a $94.47-$95.68/b range throughout the ...
Tags: oil complex, oil
Fusion-io President and CEO David Flynn has resigned and will be replaced by Shane Robison, the former CTO of Hewlett-Packard. Flynn resigned effective immediately "to pursue entrepreneurial investing activities," according to a news ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Have you ever wondered how lighting effects one’s behavior? Can those bright fluorescent tubes in your kitchen, in stores and even at work effect the way that you feel? The study of the psychological and physiological effects of ...
Tags: Philips Lighting, Philips, Lighting
John P. Sedlak John P. Sedlak, founder of Sedlak Interiors in Solon, Ohio, died Tuesday at age 87. Sedlak built the upscale home furnishings business, starting from one room in an apartment building on the east side of Cleveland in ...
Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novell to a similar level of prominence. "The Novell Corporation was at one time one of the ...
Tags: Novell Exec, Computer Products
While the British weather still errs on the undecided as to what season we are approaching, the optimists among us can start to get excited that the sun is indeed putting his hat on and coming out to play rather soon. Therefore, what ...
Prices for renewable fuel credits cracked the $1 barrier Friday and RBOB prices settled sharply higher as the war of words over who is to blame for skyrocketing credits prices also escalated. The price for the traded Renewable ...
Tags: renewable fuel, skyrocketing credits prices, RBOB price
What sits on the grocery shelf is often not what it seems — especially regarding olive oil, honey, fish and wine. The National Center for Food Protection and Defense estimates that Americans pay $10 billion to $15 billion annually for ...
Tags: Food Protection and Defense, food safety, US
The NYMEX April natural gas futures contract rose in early trading Wednesday as traders eyed a potentially cold start to March across much of the US. As of 10:05 a.m. EST (1505 GMT), the contract was trading at $3.51/MMBtu, up 5.4 cents ...
Tags: natural gas, gas
UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
Tags: Fusion-io, flash boards, company news
Some 200 people gathered at Specialized's headquarters in Morgan Hill, California, on Saturday night for the National Interscholastic Cycling Association's annual awards. The event honored student-athletes, coaches, volunteers and ...
Tags: National Interscholastic Cycling Association, cycling, bicycle
US commercial crude stocks likely rebounded slightly last week, following a massive bout of end of year destocking over the prior week, according to a Platts survey of analysts conducted Monday. Analysts polled expect crude stocks to have ...
Tags: US, commercial crude stocks, last week, analysts