Chemicals & Energy

Thoma Bravo Wraps Up Acquisition of Elemica

July 25, 2016

Thoma Bravo LLC, a private equity investment firm, has completed its acquisition of Elemica, provider of a supply-chain operating network for the process industries.

Major Oil Companies See Future Success Lies in Natural Gas

July 22, 2016

Business Week

At Australia's Curtis Island, you can see Big Oil morphing into Big Gas.

Administration Turns to Former Wal-Mart Exec to Trim Air Force Energy Costs

July 22, 2016

L.A. Times

Wal-Mart is one of the nation's largest private energy consumers, having to power millions of square feet of store space. So when the Obama administration wanted to cut energy bills for the Air Force - which consumes more energy than any other U.S. agency - it turned to the person who had led similar efforts at Wal-Mart for six years.

B2B Commerce Become Buying Method of Choice in Electrical Industry

July 12, 2016

TED Mag

The numbers are in and all signs point to a future saturated with business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sales. Following in the footsteps of its business-to-consumer (B2C) cousin, B2B e-commerce is quickly becoming the shopping and purchasing method of choice for a wide range of buyers - including customers in the electrical industry.

M&A Activity in First Half of 2016 'Way Down' from Last Year's Second Half

July 12, 2016

IBT

Mergers and acquisitions activity in the first half of 2016 fell by 26.6 percent compared to the same period last year, and the decline was a whopping 66.8 percent when compared to the second half of 2015, data compiled by Mergermarket showed.

Forget Government Money - Billions in Private Investment Going Into Space Travel

July 8, 2016

L.A. Times

It used to be that the only way to get to outer space was through the government.

Canada Acts to Ban Microbeads in Consumer Products

July 8, 2016

CBC

Canada's federal government has officially listed microbeads as a toxic substance, giving it the ability to ban the plastic beads used in cleansers.

Embraer Taps Alcoa as Sole Supplier of Aluminum for E2 Commercial Aircraft Line

July 7, 2016

Alcoa

Lightweight metals leader Alcoa has entered into a long-term contract with Embraer valued at approximately $470m to supply aluminum sheet and plate for E2s, the second generation of the Brazilian manufacturer's E-Jets family of commercial aircraft.

Natural Gas No. 1 Energy Source for U.S. Electricity, Beginning to Overtake Coal Globally

June 28, 2016

Houston Chronicle

Natural gas has crept past coal as the largest source of electric energy in the United States and is now gaining globally, opening new markets for drillers, processors and transport companies.

Diesel Predicted to Lose Its Dominant Position Among Class 8 Vehicles by 2021

June 23, 2016

ACT Research

In 2015, diesel engines made up 98.5 percent of the North American Class 8 vehicle market, but the forecast expects this dominance to lessen by 2021, according to a report by Americas Commercial Transportation (ACT) Research and Rhein Associates.

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