German chemical industry expects 1.5 pet sales growth in 2014

摘要

German chemicals trade group VCI recently forecast revenues growth at its member businesses to rise to 1.5 percent next year as the mood among European customers brightens. "There will be an upward trend for the German chemical industry next year, but only a slow one," said the VCI's chairman, Karl-Ludwig Kley, who is also the chief executive of chemicals and drugs maker Merck KGaA.