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Industrial service provider and chemical manufacturer embark on new collaboration

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• LANXESS market

Jotun is collaborating with Odfjell Drilling to provide a premium anti-fouling and topside coating solution for the advanced drilling platform Deepsea Stavanger.

• coating company
• coating trend

PPG announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nordic paint and coatings company Tikkurila in an all-cash transaction.

• PPG news
• PPG coating

Recently, Ashland launched a naturally-derived styling polymer Styleze CSP™, which has the characteristics of strong styling power, moisture resistance and high elasticity. Compared with other natural styling polymers, Styleze CSP™

• Ashland product
• natural styling polymer
• cassia seed

Affected by costs and profits, Japan's Sumitomo Dyestuffs will stop production in April 2021, including the active Sumifix series and the dispersed Sumikaron series.

• Sumitomo Dyes

Starbucks has announced its financial results for the fourth fiscal quarter (Q3) of 2020.

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• starbuck financial

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is raising its prices for 1,6-hexanediol (HDO) globally with immediate effect. The increase amounts to €350/t. The reason for the adjustment is the significant rise in raw material costs over the past months.

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Forging an even stronger connection with startups in a key market, AkzoNobel will launch its next regional startup challenge in China in March 2021.

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• AkzoNobel china

BASF achieved the best rating of “A” in the “CDP Water Security” list.

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Axalta has released its 68thannual Global Automotive Color Popularity Report revealing the most common automotive colours on the road today are white (38%), black (19%) and grey (15%). Grey increased by two percentage points worldwide and is at a 10-year

• axalta coating financial
• car coating

A world of possibilities for paints and coatings has been unlocked by research being conducted by AkzoNobel, in collaboration with the Dutch Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC).

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• AkzoNobel coating

ADM recently announced that it will stop producing dry lysine in the first half of 2021, focusing on meeting the market's demand for liquid and capsule lysine.

• ADM
• dry lysine production
• Feed Additives

On December 16, BeiGene announced the official completion of its second plant in Guangzhou's Guangzhou Biopharmaceutical Production Base in the Sino-Singapore Knowledge City, and the construction of its third plant was also started simultaneously.

• Biopharmaceutical
• production capacity

A new review article provides insight into the engineering pathways, the structural frameworks, and surface chemistry of “green” types of dispersants and flocculants.

• Painting&Coating
• coating research
• coating development

The 26 new wind and solar projects announced today are in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

• renewable energy
• Amazon

American chemical materials company Trinseo said on December 14 that it would acquire Arkema's PMMA business, which is the first step in the company's transformation.

• PMMA
• Arkema
• Trinseo

2020 is an uneasy year, with changing circumstances and unpredictable events. In the fight against the epidemic, the party and the government attach great importance to agricultural development and food security.

• agrochemical market

Recently, BASF issued an urgent letter stating that the supply of n-butanol in Ludwigshafen, Germany had encountered force majeure and was forced to close the factory and start repairs, so it had to allocate the supply of n-butanol.

• BASF factory
• n-butanol
• BASF Ludwigshafen

Novartis announced on the 12th that its siRNA therapy Leqvio (inclisiran) has been approved by the European Commission for the treatment of adult hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia.

• Novartis siRNA
• EU marketing approval

Moderna Inc. today announced that the first adolescent participants have been dosed in the Phase 2/3 study of mRNA-1273, the Company’s vaccine candidate against COVID-19, in adolescents ages 12 to less than 18.

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• Moderna covid-19