Chemicals output projected to decline in France this year; weak growth forecast for 2013

Chemical production has declined in France in 2012 and will grow moderately in 2013, mainly because of the eurozone debt crisis, French chemical industry association UIC (Paris) says. UIC projects that output by the French chemical industry, in volume terms, will decrease by 1.2% in 2012 compared with 2011, and increase 0.6% next year. Chemical production increased in France during the first quarter of 2012 and then started to fall, resulting in an overall 1.1% decrease in production in the first 9 months of the year compared with the same period of last year, in...

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