Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that it has signed an agreement to divest the Water Treatment business in Africa to AECI, domiciled in South Africa. The total consideration of the sale amounts to CHF 34 million in ...
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Styrene monomer prices nosedived $40/mt or 2.4% Monday to $1,594.50/mt FOB Korea and $1,621.50/mt CFR China, compared to last Friday, as the Chinese market returned from the Lunar New Year holidays amid a build-up in inventory levels and ...
Several automotive glass companies have been ranked on Entrepreneur magazine's 35th Annual Franchise 500.The top 500 companies were determined based on financial and statistical data from July 2011 through July 2013. Novus Glass came ...
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General Motors Co today announced 2013 calendar-year net income attributable to common stockholders of $3.8 billion, or $2.38 per fully diluted share, down from $4.9 billion, or $2.92 per fully diluted share in 2012. Operating performance ...
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The results of Northcoast Research Partners LLC's monthly"Tire Demand Index"are in.And demand was up in December. "Our research indicates that consumer demand for replacement tires at retail remained very robust in December,"says Nick ...
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Euclid, the leader of in-store retail analytics, measured data on nearly 25 million domestic shopping sessions during January, revealing that shoppers remained quite active in January despite the effects of bad winter weather across much of ...
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Australia's Western Areas Monday upgraded its nickel in ore production guidance by around 4% to 27,000 mt for fiscal year 2013-2014, from 25,000-26,000 mt previously. Production guidance for nickel in concentrate has also been revised up ...
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Cost control and the changing face of competition from natural gas emerged as major themes facing the coal industry as the CoalTrans USA conference wrapped up Friday in Miami. While long-term forecasts for US coal production split between ...
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Altria Group's has acquired the e-vapor business Green Smoke for $110 million in cash plus up to $20 million in incentive payments. Posting $40 million revenue in 2013, the majority of Green Smoke's sales are online in the U.S. The ...
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The company behind a revolutionary process which uses 3D printing to produce optics and lenses has secured ‘several million Euros’ worth of funding from three international venture capital funds. Luxexcel announced that ...
Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
Canada has announced its second case of the PED virus, also in Ontario. The U.S. ended 2013 with PED on 2,000 farms and has added another 600 this month. The impact of the virus is pushing summer hog futures contracts close to record highs. ...
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Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look good, but China's celebrating their New Year, which could take them out of the market for a while. However, while there ...
There are many ways to drive forward the energy saving and environmental protection industries in an ecologically fragile area like Northwest China's Gansu province, but not if the market is shut and centered on local government's ...
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There were several in the past few months alone – Covidien acquired Given Imaging for $860 million (this is Covidien’s fourth Israeli company acquisition in a little over 18 months); Baxter acquired FlowSense for $9.5 million; ...
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