Desso chief: European circular economy could balance out US shale advantage

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Adopting cradle-to-cradle ethos would cut costs and improve the resilience of EU industry, Stef Kranendijk tells BusinessGreen Plus

The shale gas boom in the US has dropped natural gas prices to about a quarter of what they were five years ago, posing a problem for many European companies: how can they compete when competitors on the...

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