February 11, 2021 Today at 14:37 Sipef achieved clearly better results in 2020 than in the ‘volcano year’ of 2019. The plantation holding was profitable again and pays a dividend of 0.35 euros gross per share. In 2019 Sipef celebrated its centenary. That celebration was overshadowed by several volcanic eruptions in Papua New Guinea. His […]
February 11, 2021 Today at 10:41 Umicore CEO Marc Grynberg is leaving Umicore at his peak. Without much fuss or words. That has characterized him throughout his career. In 2006, Grynberg, who studied commercial engineering at Solvay and began his career at DuPont de Nemours in Brussels and Geneva, heads the group’s automotive catalyst division […]
February 09, 2021 Today at 10:14 Higher-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter are turning Total into primus in the troubled oil sector. A new name should reinforce the cleantech ambitions. We will not say that the French oil giant Total is immune to the lean oil price and the demand for oil marked by lockdowns. […]
February 08, 2021 Today at 15:29 The suppliers of fuel oil received a huge number of orders on Monday, their federation reports. “Our members’ telephone is ringing off the hook”, emphasizes Johan Mattart, the general director of the Belgian Federation of Fuel Traders Brafco. ‘We received orders for a whole week in a few hours […]
February 01, 2021 Today at 10:37 The CEOs of the two largest American oil companies Exxon and Chevron spoke with each other about a merger last year. That writes The Wall Street Journal. According to the US business newspaper, the probing talks resulted from the collapse in demand for oil and gas shortly after the […]
January 29, 2021 Today at 17:27 In several European regions, garbage collectors collect less paper due to the strict corona measures. This makes cardboard 15 percent more expensive. E-commerce packages, egg cartons and other cardboard products are becoming scarcer. Anyone who wants to buy eggs in a Delhaize supermarket today has a high chance of […]
January 06, 2021 Today at 17:19 Commodity trader Trafigura is building a giant energy storage battery at the zinc producer Nyrstar’s factory site in Balen. It concerns an investment of 30 million euros. The 25 megawatt lithium ion battery can provide 100 megawatt hours of power in four hours. That corresponds to the consumption of […]