Airgas downgraded to 'Hold' on pricey stock value, risk profile after Air Products bid An analyst downgraded industrial gas supplier Airgas Inc. on Thursday, saying investors in chemical stocks would be better off buying shares of Air Products & Chemicals Inc. Jefferies ...
S&P, Moody's assign investment-grade ratings to notes for Airgas debt offering Two ratings services have given investment-grade ratings to an Airgas Inc. plan to raise $250 million from a debt offering. The Radnor, Pa., industrial gas supplier said Wednesday it will sell ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Delaware court declined on Friday to disqualify a law firm that Air Products and Chemicals Inc <APD.N> is using in its $5.1 billion bid to acquire rival Airgas Inc <ARG.N>. As part of its bid, Allentown, Pennsylvania-based ...
<div id="subtitle">Federal grants hope to jump-start the evolution of cellulosic ethanol after a tough year</div><div><p>Cellulosic ethanol, the next big hope for a biofuels industry hampered during the past year by volatile commodity price swings and shrinking profit margins, is continuing its slow ...
<div id="subtitle">Project Means 140 Jobs, $250 Million Investment</div><div><p>SEBRING - A Massachusetts-based company committed Thursday to building the country’s first cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. <p>Verenium Corporation, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., announced plans to produce 36 million gallons of ethanol per year ...
<div><p>Just a year after Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, predicted Brazil would triple its annual ethanol output to around 70 billion liters by 2020, the market appears to be slumping. Falling global oil prices are making Brazilian ethanol less competitive, while a ...
<div id="subtitle">Bill Gates was an early investor</div><div><p>Ethanol stocks have been getting pounded since their IPOs and the sector has lost its luster. Pacific Ethanol (NASDAQ: PEIX, Stock Forum) was the exception for a while as it has Bill Gates as an investor ...
<div id="subtitle">New biofuels study sees 90 billion gallons of ethanol possible by 2030</div><div><p>The U.S. could produce enough ethanol to displace nearly a third of all gasoline use by 2030, but gas would have to cost more than it does today for the ...
<div id="subtitle">Look who's coming to dinner: Nation's biggest refinery makes its move into ethanol</div><div><p>If federal renewable fuel mandates require ethanol to be mixed into gasoline, the nation's largest independent oil refiner figures it might as well just do it itself.</p> ...
<div><p><p>GAINESVILLE - Inside his bright, new laboratory at the University of Florida, researcher Lonnie Ingram is trying to build a better bug.</p> <p>That's what scientists and others call the microscopic organisms they are counting on to create a new U.S.-based fuel industry ...
