Company Dynamic

According to a report by Bloomberg News on April 18, 2022, U.S. natural gas prices surged to a 13-year high.

• Natural Gas Prices

AbbVie is ending an alpha-synuclein antibody collaboration agreement with BioArctic on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, according to the latest news.

• AbbVie
• BioArctic
• Parkinson

Covestro announced a partnership with SmartGuard Rx Inc. to provide the latest formulation of its SmartGuard anti-snoring product, designed to relieve snoring.

• Covestro
• SmartGuard
• Polycarbonate
• Anti-snoring

Entering mid-April, the domestic corn starch market is still not prosperous in the peak season, the downstream demand for starch continues to be sluggish, and the trade entities have a strong wait-and-see attitude. RMB/ton, down 1.06% from April 1.

• Corn starch

On April 20, the price of monoammonium phosphate was stable, which was unchanged from the previous trading day.

• Monoammonium Phosphate

On April 18, Zhongjing Petrochemical's 1.2 million ton/year copolymerized polypropylene plant was handed over, which will be the largest production base of propylene and polypropylene in the world.

• PP
• Petrochemical
• polypropylene

On April 19, REGENERON and Checkmate jointly announced that the two companies have signed a definitive agreement under which Regeneron will acquire Checkmate common stock at an all-cash price of $10.50 per share

• Regeneron
• TLR9 agonist
• Checkmate

On the evening of April 18, local time, a fire broke out at the Dow plant in Plaquemine-Louisiana, which resulted in the leakage of chlorine gas.

• Dow plant
• Chlorine

Recently, Tancheng County, Shandong Province held a centralized signing ceremony for the "Double Recruitment and Double Induction" project in the second quarter of 2022.

• chemical projects
• BASF

On April 19, Takeda announced that the new crown vaccine Nuvaxovid (NVX-CoV2373) has been approved for marketing in Japan for primary and booster immunizations of people 18 years of age and older.

• Recombinant protein
• covid-19 vaccine
• Takeda

On April 15, Bloomage Bio and China Coal Geology Group Co., Ltd. formally signed the "Property Rights Transaction Contract" to acquire 51% of Beijing Yierkang Bioengineering Co., Ltd. Equity, officially entered the collagen industry.

• Collagen

Novartis' latest data from the CANOPY-1 Phase 3 trial presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting show that in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic non-small cell lung cancer

• Novartis
• NSCLC

On April 18, Sumitomo Chemical will withdraw from the caprolactam business as a raw material for vinylon.

• nylon
• Sumitomo chemical

Luxi Chemical (000830.SZ) disclosed on the 17th that it plans to suspend trading and plan to purchase 100% equity of Luxi Group Co., Ltd.

• Luxi Chemical
• Sinochem

On April 18, the State Food and Drug Administration issued an announcement on the cancellation of 223 drug registration certificates including rosiglitazone maleate tablets.

• food
• drug administration

The world's largest liner company Mediterranean Shipping (MSC) has reached an agreement with New Era Shipbuilding to build 14 LNG-powered dual-fuel neo-panamax container ships.

• Maersk
• LNG

At least a quarter of the company's raw materials will be sourced by 2030.

• investment in renewable feedstocks

On April 18, Zhongjing Petrochemical's 1.2 million ton/year copolymerized polypropylene plant was handed over, which will be the largest production base of propylene and polypropylene in the world.

• annual output
• Copolymerized PP

Recently, there have been news on social platforms that 3M, DuPont, BASF and other companies have refused to resume work and production.

• BASF
• Huntsman
• 3M
• DuPont

Due to the impact of the new crown epidemic in Mongolia, entry from Erlian to Zamyn-Uud border is strictly controlled by the local government.

• Maersk
• MSC
• Hapag Lloyd