Keyword: North America

Strategy & Management

Heavy Reliance on Contract Manufacturing

07.10.2015 - The results of ISR’s 2015 Contract Manufacturing Quality Benchmarking study give insight into the outsourcing preferences and practices of 116 buyers of commercial manufacturing...

News

Groundbreaking for Yara-BASF Ammonia Plant

28.07.2015 - Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara International and BASF, world’s largest chemical producer, have broken ground for a world-scale ammonia plant at BASF’s Freeport, Texas, site...

Markets & Companies

With Oil Prices Down, Energy Companies Need to Adopt a 'Cost Culture'

12.02.2015 - With the recent fall-off in oil prices, companies in virtually all sectors of the oil, gas and chemicals (OGC) industry worldwide are going to have to plan and manage their...

News

Umicore and Midas Team up in North America

28.01.2015 - Umicore Precious Metals Chemistry has chosen Midas Pharmaceuticals as the exclusive sales agent of the company's Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) segment in the USA and...

Strategy & Management

Building a Future-Proof Business

02.09.2014 - What have sustainability and social responsibility to do with the financial performance of a materials company and the value it creates for its shareholders? A conversation with...

News

A Numbers Game

29.01.2013 - The Final Score - Revenues, profits, assets, liabilities, cash flow - looking after your financial statements is sometimes sport, sometimes science and sometimes plain arithmetic...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

M&A in the Chemicals & Materials Sector in the First Half of 2012

25.09.2012 - Mergers & Acquisitions - Recently, Squire Sanders commissioned a report from their partners at Mergermarket on mergers and acquisitions activity in the chemicals and industrials...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

The Chemicals Economy at Halftime in 2012

25.09.2012 - Market Overview - With the euro crisis biting ever harder, the US economy still staggering under a formidable debt burden and even the Chinese growth engine sputtering, the chief...