Company Dynamic

Currently, Japan's Ajinomoto has launched the first non-amino acid supplement, which is a compound product containing 12 kinds of vitamins and 9 kinds of minerals, designed for the elderly in the Japanese domestic market.

• Ajinomoto
• multivitamin
• supplement
• mineral

The values of Hong Kong's total exports and imports of goods both recorded year-on-year decreases in May, at 7.4 percent and 12.3 percent respectively

• Export
• hongkong
• china

Launched in 2019, Paint the Future is AkzoNobel’s global collaborative innovation challenge.

• coating
• AkzoNobel
• business

SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus causing the global COVID-19 pandemic, uses a protein called polymerase to replicate its genome inside infected human cells. Terminating the polymerase reaction will stop the growth of the coronavirus, leading to its eradication

• Pharmaceutical
• research
• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2

According to BP's announcement, the transaction amount is subject to customary price adjustments. The sale is a strategic move to further reshape BP, which will further optimize BP's balance sheet and achieve the asset divestiture target one year earlier

• BP
• transactions
• China
• factories

It has become history to continuously adjust the color of industrial coating formulations! Clariant launched a new series of pigment dispersants designed for accurate color matching, thereby reducing the time and cost of batch-to-batch formulation adjustm

• Clariant
• pigment dispersants
• product

On June 29, Clariant's catalyst business development is accelerating, and its high-throughput R&D center in Palo Alto, California, was successfully upgraded and expanded.

• Clariant
• U.S.
• catalyst

The number of heavy vehicles on the roads is increasing and climate change causes more extreme weather conditions.

• BASF
• new material

Recently, BASF's new polyphthalamide (PPA), Ultramid Advanced N5H UN, is being used by plastics processors to produce billets with a diameter of 50 mm. Gehr, headquartered in Mannheim, Germany, was the first company to successfully extrude PPA.

• BASF
• PPA
• Gehr

Recently, the head of Saudi Aramco’s downstream business said that Saudi Aramco will increase chemical investment in emerging economies, especially in Asia.

• Saudi Aramco
• Asia
• chemical
• investment

ORE Catapult, a famous British offshore renewable energy incubator, revealed that French Total, Royal Dutch Shell and Norwegian energy giant Equinor have successively joined the British Floating Offshore Wind Energy Center of Excellence (FOWCoE)

• energy
• companies
• FOWCoE
• ORE catapult

On June 23, the Beijing Equity Exchange issued two announcements on the transfer of property rights. Sinochem Group intends to transfer 20.62% of the equity of Modern Seed Industry Development Fund Co., Ltd.

• Sinochem
• trade
• assets
• investment
• China

Affected by the new domestic outbreak of pneumonia in Japan, major Japanese chemical companies have postponed their results for the fiscal year 2019 (April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020) originally announced in early May until late May or even June .

• Japan
• chemical companies
• announcement

In the post-epidemic era, where is the growth driver of polyurethane companies? How to take the road of sustainable development?

• Huntsman
• Asia-Pacific
• market
• Polyurethane

In the recently released financial report analysis document, Japan Hasegawa Spice Co., Ltd. (T. Hasegawa) predicted that the global flavor and fragrance market sales will reach 3 trillion yen this year

• flavor
• fragrance
• companies
• rank

Fountain Awards at the China International Cosmetics, Personal and Home Care Products Exhibition (PCHi)

• PCHi
• Ashland
• ethylcellulose
• personal care
• beauty

On June 22, Givaudan Active Beauty announced on the company's official website the launch of a new cosmetic ingredient-Coffee'Up coffee oil.

• Givaudan
• Beauty
• Coffee oil

Funds will be split between a production unit and a new vaccine development centre

• Sanofi
• COVID-19
• Vaccine
• Pharmaceutical

The nylon 6,6 producer Ascend Performance Materials is purchasing the assets of the Chinese plastics makers NCM and Tehe Engineering Plastic.

• Nylon
• Ascend
• China

Axalta Coating Systems has announced an update on second quarter sales trends through May 2020.

• Axalta
• business
• 2020