Industrials

Scientific instruments maker Thermo Fisher will spend $403 million to acquire a Massachusetts research chemicals producer.

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. raised its takeover offer for the chipmaker Integrated Silicon Solution Inc., as it continues its bidding war with China's Uphill Investment Co.

Monsanto Co. (MON) on Wednesday reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $1.14 billion.

About 1,000 residents of a Shanghai suburb are protesting a report that a petrochemical plant may be moved to their neighborhood, although authorities have dismissed the report as untrue.

A new report from New York University projects major savings from combining contracts to design and build public works, citing savings from the approach already in use on the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

Four flight attendants are suing Boeing, claiming that toxic air from an engine leaked into their plane and made them seriously ill on a 2013 flight.

Ever since Tropical Storm Irene struck in 2011, Vermont has been pushing to make sure bridges and culverts are rebuilt to more flood-resistant standards.

A strike by workers in the northern French port of Calais has left all passenger ferry service between the city and the English city of Dover suspended and briefly slowed traffic in the Eurotunnel.

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. is working on a repair for a small crude oil leak found in a buried section of the trans-Alaska pipeline, but for now an employee with a rag suffices.

The creator of the pink plastic lawn flamingo, the ultimate symbol of American lawn kitsch, has died.

U.S. government auditors are expanding their review of federal disaster aid mismanagement by the Chippewa Cree Tribe after finding fraud, waste and abuse in a project to demolish the Montana tribe's health clinic that was destroyed by flooding in 2010.

Cypress Semiconductor has fattened its takeover offer for the chipmaker Integrated Silicon Solution Inc., coming over the top of a bid from China's Uphill Investment Co.

Thirteen Eastern states are working to keep track of the often-unseen culverts that despite their invisibility are critical to wildlife habitat and minimizing flood damage.

Airbus Defense and Space will restart deliveries of Airbus A400M aircraft after Spanish authorities lifted flight restrictions they had ordered after one of the military planes crashed last month An Airbus statement Friday said new production A400Ms were now cleared for flight provided they undergo checks of their electronic units specified by the manufacturer after the May 9 crash near Seville in southern Spain.

Portugal's government says it is granting Spain's Grupo Avanza the concession to operate Lisbon's subway and bus companies, which are publicly owned.

The number is around 60, give or take, with a rumble that is part of the soundtrack to an already unique U.S. Open.

Her male colleagues jokingly call Ami Rasmussen a forewoman.

With its new nonstop flights between Tokyo and Houston, Japan's All Nippon Airways now serves 10 cities in North America, and the CEO says he is looking for more destinations in the U.S. heartland.

Kraft Foods posted a decline in fourth-quarter profit, but the company's adjusted earnings per share came in-line with expectations, as revenue topped the Street's view.