Cereplast, Inc. (NASDAQ: CERP) a leading manufacturer of proprietary bio-based, sustainable plastics, announced today that it expects to produce and ship approximately 16 million pounds of their proprietary bio-plastic resins to customers in 2010, representing a 400% increase in ...

Anticipate earnings per share before special items and tax adjustments of approximately $0.15 for first quarter 2010 versus First Call Consensus Estimate of $0.09 Positive impact of new business gains and improving demand dynamics expected to drive revenues above $600 million ...

Anticipate earnings per share before special items and tax adjustments of approximately $0.15 for first quarter 2010 versus First Call Consensus Estimate of $0.09 Positive impact of new business gains and improving demand dynamics expected to drive revenues above $600 million ...

Full-year sales 2009: EUR 5,057 million EBITDA pre exceptionals: EUR 465 million EBITDA margin pre exceptionals: 9.2 percent Net income: EUR 40 million “Challenge09-12”: EUR 170 million savings Proposed dividend 2009: EUR 0.50 per share ...

The specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG adjusted its earnings forecast for the business year 2009 after having a significantly better-than-expected fourth quarter, according to preliminary unaudited results. LANXESS now expects to achieve EBITDA pre exceptionals of EUR 450-470 ...

LA SEDA DE BARCELONA has signed a Project Finance for 371 million euros with a long term 15 year financing for its facilitiy in Sines, a Portuguese town in the south of Lisbon. The Project Finance for the chemical Corporation’s PTA plant is led by the Portugese bank Caixa Geral, ...

Business is being hit by the worldwide financial crisis. In the year’s first nine months, sales fell by 22.8 % to 1,364.0 million euros, while pretax earnings were at minus 26.9 million euros. Krones is targeting a break-even result in the year’s final quarter. Krones AG, the world’s ...

The figures at Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, were hit by the cyclical downtrend in the first half of 2009. Thanks to its eminently sound financial and balance-sheet structure, however, Krones is able to cope significantly better with ...

Sales down 19% in local currencies and 24% in CHF on weak demand Operating loss before exceptionals of CHF 13 million due to low capacity utilization and inventory devaluations Cash flow from operations up to CHF 156 million from CHF – 6 million in Q1, 2008 due to strong ...

Global recession hits performance in 2009’s first quarter – Krones proposes 0.60 euros-per-share dividend for 2008Krones AG, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, had another highly successful year in 2008. At 2,381.4 million euros, consolidated ...