Environmental health company Healthy Buildings (Ireland) is investing over £160,000 in an expansion which will create 15 jobs. The Belfast-based firm has received £30,000 from Invest NI to create a marketing strategy for Scotland and the north of England. It employs 60 people and hopes to increase sales in Great Britain to £500,000 by 2013.

Germany-based Symrise recorded sales growth of 3% to 225m euros in its scent and care division for the first quarter of 2012 compared with the 2011 first quarter. Earnings for scent and care increased 4% to 45m euros. Across all divisions, sales increased 4% in the first quarter, to 432.6m euros. The company anticipates further growth in 2012.

Chemicals group Croda recorded a 4.7% sales increase to 291m in the three months to March 2012, while pre-tax profits increased by 7.2% to 65.1m. An increased focus on higher-value products and better pricing more than offset a reduction in volumes. Revenues have more than tripled over the 10 years to 2012. 2010 turnover 1bn, 3,303 employees.

Cleaning product manufacturer Jeyes have confimred restructuring plans across its UK sites with up to 35 jobs beinglost in East Kilbride. The firm are to streamline their supply chain by transferring some of the manufacturing from East Kilbride to elsewhere in the UK and concentrate their reduced in-house manufacturing capability on their core brands. Nicholas Goodwin is Chief Financial Officer