Company Dynamic

AkzoNobel's spectro2profiler, launched on April 10, represents a major step forward for the industry, because at present, the only way to check the quality of the surface texture of powder coatings is to perform a visual inspection.

• Painting&Coating
• Surface Materials
• 3D

Although there has been a lot of discussion about whether the US and Japanese companies will "fight the battle" in the past few days, Meiji, Japan's largest dairy company, seems to be using real money to set a good "example" for its pe

• Meiji
• milk
• Acquisition
• AustAsia

Yesterday, the domestic toluene market fell. Although the market was relatively strong in the early afternoon, the trading volume was not good.

• toluene

An Gong, Chairman and CEO of L'Oreal Group, said in a conference call that from the current situation, the impact on skin care and beauty products will continue until the second quarter. But taking China as an example

• L'Oréal
• sales
• China

The factory is closed and offline stores are closed ... Due to the continued impact of the global epidemic, this year's retail industry sales have fallen sharply, which seems to be an indisputable fact.

• LVMH
• Sephora
• sales

DuPont lifted its first-quarter earnings outlook as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic bolsters demand for products such as Tyvek protective fabric, but withdrew its full-year guidance and announced steps to improve its balance sheet because

• DuPont
• Outlook
• COVID-19
• SALES

Mitsubishi Chemical said recently that it has begun the design of a 350,000-ton / year methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant on the US Gulf Coast. The factory is expected to start production in 2025.

• Mitsubishi
• industrial chemical
• methyl methacrylate

American low-carbon renewable energy company Pacific Ethanol (Pacific Ethanol) announced that it has reached a final agreement to sell 74% of its equity in Pacific Aurora to Aurora Cooperative Elevator Company (a U.S. agricultural cooperative company

• Ethanol
• energy

Roche has completed development of a rapid test to detect if someone has been exposed to coronavirus in the past, and says it could be available as early as next month.

• COVID-19
• antibody
• test
• roche

Masks that protect doctors and nurses from COVID-19 only block the virus before it reaches their faces, but University of Central Florida researchers are working to create a protective coating that would include a novel mask material that would catch the

• nanoparticle
• Coating
• COVID-19

Inkmaker Group announces that as of 7 April 2020 Inkmaker Shanghai will begin operating from a new 35,000 square feet facility, double the size of its current factory space, to meet with the demands due to the recent escalation in workload and orders.

• Inkmaker
• Group
• COVID-19

If the rectification is not in place within the time limit, the emergency management departments will resolutely request to close down.

• coal

Sanofi has committed to donating 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to 50 countries around the world, and has begun to progressively deliver the medicine to authorities that have requested it.

• Sanofi
• hydroxychloroquine
• COVID-19

In March, the global epidemic spread, crude oil plunge, US stocks meltdown and other macro news dragged down, the domestic butadiene market weakened. As of March 24, the price of butadiene in the Shandong market was 5600-5700 CNY/ton

• Butadiene

On April 16, in response to the new crown epidemic, Minoru Tanaka, President of Osaka International Chemical Manufacturing Company Kaneke, has reached an agreement with Kenji Sukeno

• Kaneke
• Fujifilm
• Avigan

PPG held its annual meeting of shareholders virtually where Michael H. McGarry, chairman and CEO reviewed the company’s continued strategic progress, highlighted its performance in 2019.

• PPG
• COVID-19

Additionally, they donated RMB 5 million worth of Nippon Paint Antivirus Kids Paint to four hospitals in China’s Hubei Province.

• Nippon
• Paint
• Hubei

PPG has donated more than 290 gallons (1,100 liters) of MASTER’S MARK anti-bacterial interior latex coatings by PPG to Shanghai Tong Ren Hospital.

• PPG
• China

A total of 12 inspection teams of the Inner Mongolia Party committee officially carried out a special inspection tour in the field of coal resources to look back on coal corruption in the past 20 years.

• coal
• inspection

The World Health Organisation says maintaining a healthy diet plays ‘crucial role’ in how well people recover from Covid-19

• health food
• COVID-19