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...In 2020, with the US struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic and confronting its racial divisions after the murder of George Floyd, McMillon gave a speech about Walmart’s purpose and legacy....
...Scientific American says mycelium is “the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs — and much more”....
...SK Global Chemical, a subsidiary of SK Group, today announced it was taking a 10 per cent stake in Loop Industries and setting up a new joint venture that would “accelerate the commercialisation” of Loop...
...Ineos is one of the biggest suppliers of the basic building blocks for everyday products such as plastics, paint and medicines....
...Norway’s Equinor and Italy’s Eni, which have bigger exploration and production divisions as a proportion of their overall businesses are more tied to the oil price....
...After a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, he took a doctorate at the University of Illinois. By the time of his first job, at GE’s plastics division, he was 25....
...Formerly a division of Akzo Nobel, which owns the Dulux brand of emulsions, the business was acquired by US private equity group Carlyle and Singapore’s sovereign investment fund GIC for €10.1bn including...
...Berube was a senior vice-president and general counsel at chemicals company Cabot Corporation....
...Tim Clayfield was an employee of Dow Chemical in Switzerland for nearly 30 years as a senior scientist in plastics and rubbers....
...Netherlands-based Akzo’s specialty chemicals division has annual sales of about €5bn and contains four distinct businesses....
...Later in the century, the country set standards for the development, handling, use and disposal of chemicals....
...“Everything you see when you drive a car, from plastics to polymers and batteries, comes from chemicals,” says Mike Shannon, KPMG’s global head of chemicals....
...What do chemicals used in foam mattresses and plastics used in roadside noise barriers have in common with eye medicine and cancer drugs? Not a lot....
...The latest change is the spin-off of DuPont’s performance chemicals division, which makes paint pigments and Teflon, scheduled for next year....
...Bayer, founded in 1863 as a manufacturer of synthetic dyes, is making a decisive shift away from its roots as a drugs and chemicals conglomerate to concentrate on life sciences, where profit margins are...
...His Organization Study, a report produced in 1919, provided the blueprint for the modern corporation, leaving individual divisions’ entrepreneurial energy undimmed but allowing the central corporation to...
...It has also been developing biological methods for making plastics, fuels and chemicals....
...Dow Chemical of the US has been paid $2.2bn by Kuwait Petroleum Corporation in a final resolution of the dispute between the two companies over a failed joint venture plan that collapsed in 2008....
...Rexam faded 1.2 per cent to 348½p in spite of speculation that Aptargroup, the US pharmaceuticals packaging maker, was lining up an offer for its personal care plastics division....
...Sari Baldauf Formerly executive VP, Nokia During a 22-year career at Nokia, Sari Baldauf took the Nokia Networks operations from next to nothing and turned them into a powerful international business....
...Recent additions to its equity research team include Bret Jones, formerly of Leerink Swann, to cover healthcare IT and distribution, and Jess Lubert, formerly at Banc of America Securities, to cover telecommunication...
...treatment division, leaving Ciba focused on coating effects and plastic additives....
...Under Ho, who holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Temasek has bought stakes in China Construction Bank Corporation and Bank of China....
...When Saudi Basic Industries Corporation bought GE Plastics for about $11.6bn in May it marked the largest acquisition by an Arab company of a foreign rival....
...Several of ICI’s divisions in the UK are now part of Ineos, a big privately-owned, UK-based chemicals group whose principal shareholder is Jim Ratcliffe....
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