Company Dynamic

The "Starbucks: Break Free from Plastic" campaign says it has the support of more than a dozen environmental organizations. The campaign, among the goals, is targeting a variety of plastics products at Starbucks, including straws, cups and lids.

• Environmental
• Polypropylene

Packaging and Speciality Plastics, a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), has developed an innovative formulation of polyethylene (PE) resins to create a new sustainable all PE laminate solution with flexible packaging applications.

• Polyethylene

AkzoNobel Speciality Chemicals has agreed to use watermark technology developed by FiliGrade, one of the winners of the 2017 Imagine Chemistry challenge - a program through which the company collaborates with startups, scale-ups and scientists.

• AkzoNobel

ExxonMobil Corporation and Synthetic Genomics Inc announced a new phase in their joint algae biofuel research program that could lead to the technical ability to produce 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel per day by 2025.

• ExxonMobil

Innofil3D, a subsidiary of BASF SE and Beijing Tiertime, a leading fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printer manufacturer, signed a strategic partnership to support the further development of the 3D printing industry in China and US.

• BASF

Covestro India said that it will present a range of smart and sustainable polyurethane (PU) materials for the construction, automobile, footwear, and furniture industries.

• Covestro

Shell Chemical LP (Shell) announced a good progress on the main construction of its fourth linear alpha olefins (AO) unit at its chemical manufacturing site in Geismar, Louisiana, US.

• Shell

Sika AG has successfully placed a bond with a total amount of CHF 300 million ($ 319.09 million) through a double tranche. The payment date of the bonds is 27 March 2018.

• Sika

Biesterfeld Polybass SpA has strengthened its long-term relationship with ExxonMobil Chemical Company and distributes Vistalon ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) in Italy.

• ExxonMobil

BASF SE is in talks with Bayer AG to buy its vegetable seeds business, which is valued at around 1.5 billion euros ($1.85 billion) including debt, two people familiar with the matter said.

• BASF

ExxonMobil Corporation said that it is providing $1 million for the humanitarian relief effort in Papua New Guinea to assist communities affected by a powerful earthquake and aftershocks in the country’s Highlands area.

• ExxonMobil

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to acquire 50 percent stake in Aston Foods and Food Ingredients’ sweeteners and starches business.

• Sweeteners

Evonik Industries said that it has invested in Velox, a digital printing technology developer located in Rosh HaAyin, Israel. This marks the company’s first investment in Israel, which has become a hub for start-ups.

• Evonik

Agriculture, Specialty Products, and Material Science. DowDuPont Inc has a market cap of $167.92 billion; its shares were traded at around $71.76 with a P/E ratio of 45.13 and P/S ratio of 1.64. The dividend yield of DowDuPont Inc stocks is 2.46%.

• DowDupont

Chemicals giant LyondellBasell Industries NV is set to acquire US-based plastics compounds producer A. Schulman for $2.25-bn including debt.

• LyondellBasell

Germany’s Bayer and Japan’s Mitsui Chemicals Agro Inc (MCAG) have announced the signing of a license agreement for the development and marketing of quinofumelin, a new fungicide invented by MCAG.

• Bayer

This new capacity will be added at Arkema’s Changshu platform in China and is expected to come on stream by mid-2020.

• Arkema

ADC Biotechnology, a Wales based specialist antibody drug conjugate (ADC) contract services company, is developing a ‘downstream bioconjugation’ method for ADC development and manufacturing.

• Biotechnology

Neolyse Ibbenbüren GmbH, a joint venture of AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Evonik Industries, has begun operation of a new membrane technology based chlor-alkali plant at AkzoNobel’s site in Ibbenbüren (Germany).

• AkzoNobel
• Evonik

The UK government's “unclear” negotiating position on Brexit, nearly two years after the country voted to leave the EU, is stopping companies from undertaking long-term investment decisions and making them anxious about their future, according to the CFO

• Brexit