December: The top business stories of 2011

Slovnaft invests in new technologies. The Slovnaft refinery and petrochemical company, a subsidiary of MOL, announces plans to invest €300 million in plastics production technologies to bolster its competitiveness and improve pollution control by adding a new production line that can make nearly 30 kinds of polyethylene. The project will start in 2012 and be completed in 2015.