Beverage producers are currently facing multiple challenges. Their packaging solutions need to be innovative and able to offer great consumer experiences. Also, they have to ensure product integrity to meet food safety standards. All of this, without compromising on cost effectiveness. SEE MORE The recovery in urea prices faces a reversal later this year, as fresh production capacity comes onstream, fertilizer giant Yara International said, as it unveiled a surprise quarterly loss, sending its shares tumbling. SEE MORE Growing competition from less costly natural gas liquid (NGL) feedstocks—much of them coming from North American shale gas -- have dealt a blow to global demand for naphtha, according to new research from IHS Markit. SEE MORE PotashCorp forecast a waning threat to Western phosphate and urea producers from Chinese exporters, even as prices of both nutrients continued to improve – although lagging the 28% surge in a week in ammonia values. SEE MORE Russia, fresh from a record grains harvest last year, is poised for a "good" crop of winter cereals in 2017 too, US officials said, flagging growing fertilizer use, besides a rise in plantings. SEE MORE