Company Dynamic

April 7, 2018, Brooks Brothers, America’s oldest retailer, reaches its milestone 200-year anniversary. Since opening its doors on April 7, 1818, in New York City, Brooks Brothers has grown from a small family haberdasher to become a global brand ...

• Retailer
• Textile

Global safety equipment manufacturer MSA Safety Incorporated today announced that it has executed a $10 million contract to provide G1 self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) and accessories to the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and Country...

• MSA
• Textile

Covestro LLC is a leading supplier of coating raw materials with over 75 years of experience in polyurethane chemistry. At the American Coatings Show 2018 (ACS), the company will again demonstrate the versatility of its polyurethane- and...

• Covestro
• Textile

Boehringer Ingelheim and OSE Immunotherapeutics have entered a collaboration and exclusive worldwide collaboration and license agreement to jointly develop OSE-172, a SIRP-alpha antagonist targeting myeloid lineage cells.

Sika is continuing to expand its production capacity in West Africa with the opening of a concrete admixture factory in Senegal. The new plant is the first in the country. Sika has a total of 19 national subsidiaries and 20 factories in Africa.

BASF 3D Printing Solutions is presenting a variety of new materials at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference, which takes place April 8 to 12, 2018 in St. Louis. Together with Essentium Materials, Texas, BASF 3D Printing Solutions...

Dominion Colour Corporation (DCC) and LANSCO Colors announced that they will be merging their companies.

DowDuPont announced a plan to make a series of investments totaling approximately $100 million over the next two years to expand manufacturing capacity and to modernize facilities at the Sabine River Works (SRW) plant in Orange County, Texas.

BASF 3D Printing Solutions is presenting a variety of new materials at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) Conference, which takes place April 8 to 12, 2018 in St. Louis. Together with Essentium Materials, Texas, BASF 3D Printing Solutions...

• BASF
• 3D-Printing

DowDuPont announced a plan to make a series of investments totaling approximately $100 million over the next two years to expand manufacturing capacity and to modernize facilities at the Sabine River Works (SRW) plant in Orange County, Texas.

• DowDuPont
• Expansions

Since the acquisition by ChemChina, Syngenta has received a very strong support and interest from all of its key stakeholders across Chi...

German speciality chemicals company, Lanxess, recently commissioned a new production line for the manufacture of speciality compounds at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site. The company has invested approximately 7-mn euros in expanding the production ...

• Lanxess
• German
• Speciality
• Compounds

ExxonMobil said it has started detailed engineering work on a potential US Gulf Coast project to expand polypropylene manufacturing capacity by up to 450,000 tons a year to meet growing demand. A final decision on the investment, anticipated to be...

• ExxonMobil
• US
• Polypropylene

Petrochemical firms – Borealis and Borouge – have announced the inauguration of newly expanded high voltage (HV) electrical testing facilities at the Borealis Innovation Centre in Stenungsund, Sweden. About Euro 4-mn have been invested in order to...

• Petrochemical
• Sweden

The European Commission conditionally approved Bayer’s proposed acquisition of Monsanto.

• Bayer
• Acquisition
• Monsanto

Germany’s Bayer and American biotech firm, Ginkgo Bioworks, have announced the official name of its joint venture, Joyn Bio.

• Bayer
• Ginkgo

AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, DSM, Google and Philips have started receiving power from the Bouwdokken wind farm in the Netherlands – a milestone achievement resulting from a unique green energy purchasing consortium they jointly established...

• Akzonobel
• DSM
• Google
• Energy

Petroleum Minister Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan has informed that Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) will come out with BS6 standard diesel by March 2019 and BS6 petrol by December that year. (BS is Bharat Stage emission standard).

• MRPL
• India
• Petrochemicals

The Krishna-Godavari basin is likely to see total investment outlay of over $14-bn by 2021-2023 by two oil and gas exploration and production companies, according to India’s Director General of Hydrocarbons, Mr. Atanu Chakraborty.

• India
• Investments
• Oil
• Gas

Bengaluru based contract research services firm, Syngene International, has entered into an R&D agreement with healthcare major GSK. The multi-year agreement will focus on accelerating the discovery of new drug candidates using Syngene’s discovery ...

• Syngene
• GSK