In terms of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, portfolio changes and investment projects, one of the most active sectors in the European coatings supply chain is dispersions. Despite a slow growth in demand for coatings, ...
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Despite the booming profits of TiO2 producers in Europe, they still want to diversify their portfolio into speciality pigments to ensure higher profit margins in the long-term. This switch into specialities is causing concern among ...
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Jotun opened in March at Sandefjord, Norway, a decorative paints plant costing NOK 500 million ($87 million), which the company claims is one of the most modern in the world. It replaces two other decorative paints units in the country. ...
Tags: Jotun, Meanwhile AkzoNobel, high-tech decorative paints
The ratings on the Russian vertically integrated steel group OAO Severstal are constrained by our view of the highly cyclical, capital-intensive, and competitive nature of the steel industry. Steel margins are relatively weak, and in our ...
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Europe's coatings companies, especially the multinational ones, are reasonably confident they can continue to increase their sales in the short- to medium-term, unless the world is plunged into a second recession. But they are much ...
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Gerresheimer AG, one of the world’s leading partners of the pharma and healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired the majority shareholding in the Indian company Triveni to further accelerate its growth in the emerging ...
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The rating on Steel Authority of India Ltd reflects the company's good market position and diverse customers in India and its favorable cost position due to its captive sources of iron ore. SAIL's good access to funding as a government ...
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The HUGO BOSS Group posted profitable growth in the first nine months of 2012. The Group's own retail operations made a particular contribution to this performance with a double-digit increase in sales. Growth was posted in all regions. ...
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voestalpine Group has set ambitious goals up to the year 2020.With a clear focus on the customer segments Mobility and Energy and on non European growth markets,and with profitability remaining at virtually at the same level compared to the ...
Egger Holzwerkstoffe delivered significant growth in its earnings during its 2011/12 financial year, which ended on 30 April. The company erased a weaker start in the first six months as the year progressed. EBITDA had risen by just 5% ...
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The Europe activities of Norbord have developed slightly downhill again in the second quarter of 2012. Sales revenues were 6.8% lower than a year earlier at $109m and EBITDA deteriorated to $9m in the same period. Norbord had generated ...
Quiksilver, Inc. announced operating results for the fiscal 2012 full year and fourth quarter ended October 31, 2012. The following comparisons refer to fiscal 2012 versus fiscal 2011. Net revenues grew 3% to $2.01 billion ...
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The Dow Chemical Company reported sales of $13.6 billion, down 10 percent, or 7 percent on an adjusted sales basis. The decline was led by Europe, which decreased 10 percent on the same basis driven by adverse currency conditions totaling ...
THE Australian sharemarket hit a fresh 17-month high today as US lawmakers inched closer to a deal on the fiscal cliff problem. Utilities, energy, industrials, telecommunications, materials and financial stocks mostly rose despite some ...
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Australian provider of pallet,crate and container pooling solutions Brambles has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire Pallecon,a division of CEVA Logistics,in a deal worth€135m($177m). Brambles CEO Tom Gorman said Pallecon ...
Tags: Brambles, Container Business, Tom Gorman, Pallecon Operates