Company Dynamic

PPG debuted a video highlighting the company’s contributions to the coatings industry. The video offers a complete overview of PPG’s technologically advance coatings and the advantages they offer to industrial manufacturers.

• PPG
• Video

Total SA has entered into an agreement to acquire 74.33 percent stake in Direct Energie, a French electric utility company. The transaction is valued at a total price of approximately €1.4 billion.

• Total
• Acquisition

AkzoNobel is launching its Awlgrip high performance yacht coatings brand in Brazil. Local production and distribution are due to start in July.

• AkzoNobel
• Brazil

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has announced the 20 finalists for the 2018 edition of its Imagine Chemistry challenge. Imagine Chemistry was launched to help solve real-life chemistry-related challenges and uncover sustainable business opportunities.

• AkzoNobel

The Board of Executive Directors of BASF announced the following personnel changes...

• BASF
• People

PPG’s OLMYPIC brand stains will be available at Home Depot’s nearly 2,000 U.S. locations, PPG said. This partnership combines the woodcare performance of Olympic stains with the largest retailer of exterior stains.

• PPG
• OLYMPIC

Even the smallest of changes can have a big impact. BASF’s initiative “Idea Management” proves this time and again, with employees submitting suggestions that make every day work safer, easier and more efficient. By implementing improvements initiated...

• BASF
• Employee
• People

US-based analytical technologies firm, Waters Corporation, is planning to significantly expand its precision chemistry operation in Taunton, Massachusetts (USA). The company anticipates investing approximately $215-mn to build and equip a new...

US-based analytical technologies firm, Waters Corporation, is planning to significantly expand its precision chemistry operation in Taunton, Massachusetts (USA). The company anticipates investing approximately $215-mn to build and equip a new...

• Waters
• Expansions
• US

German chemical firm, Wacker, has informed that the international inspectorate TÜV SÜD has recently certified its mass balance method for tracing renewable raw materials in silicone manufacture. The company thus has a recognised procedure for tracking...

Swiss speciality chemicals firm, Clariant, expects its cross-business growth strategy for North America to advance regional sales of about $2-bn by 2021. This would make North America the company’s second largest global market and represent about 25%...

• Clariant
• US

German speciality chemicals company, Lanxess, recently received the ‘National Green Plant’ certificate for its plant in Ningbo from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China. The Ningbo plant is located in Ningbo Petrochemical...

German speciality chemicals company, Lanxess, recently received the ‘National Green Plant’ certificate for its plant in Ningbo from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China. The Ningbo plant is located in Ningbo Petrochemical...

• Lanxess
• China
• Certificate

Givaudan acquires over 40% stake in French natural ingredients firm, NaturexSwiss fragrance and flavour firm, Givaudan, plans to launch an open offer for French natural ingredients group, Naturex, after agreeing to buy 40.6% stake in the firm.

• Givaudan
• Naturex
• Acquisition

ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has announced an agreement with Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Co Ltd, to license ExxonMobil’s Flexicoking technology to build a resid upgrading unit at Sinochem Hongrun’s High-End Chemical Park located in Binhai...

ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing has announced an agreement with Sinochem Hongrun Petrochemical Co Ltd, to license ExxonMobil’s Flexicoking technology to build a resid upgrading unit at Sinochem Hongrun’s High-End Chemical Park located in Binhai...

• ExxonMobil
• China
• Technology

Evonik has revealed plans to stop its amino acid production at its Hungarian Kaba site by the end of April 2018. The facility is run by Evonik subsidiary, Evonik Agroferm Zrt, which currently employs about 120 people.

Evonik has revealed plans to stop its amino acid production at its Hungarian Kaba site by the end of April 2018. The facility is run by Evonik subsidiary, Evonik Agroferm Zrt, which currently employs about 120 people.

• Evonik
• Amino Acid
• Hungary

German speciality chemicals firm, Evonik, said it has comprehensively optimised the production process of its Vestakeep brand of PEEK (polyetheretherketone) and further improved the quality of the product at its Changchun, China, site.

German speciality chemicals firm, Evonik, said it has comprehensively optimised the production process of its Vestakeep brand of PEEK (polyetheretherketone) and further improved the quality of the product at its Changchun, China, site.

• Evonik
• PEEK