Company Dynamic

The anti-corrosion performance of the primers combines with the superior flow qualities and durability of the topcoats to provide a smoo...

• Benelux
• Coatings
• Jotun

On January 22, 2018, Wanhua Chemical announced that the newly added 70kt/a PC unit at Yantai will be put into operation recently, and th...

• Wanhua
• Capacity

Sinopec planned to purchase 75% of the shares of Chevron South Africa in 900 million USD in March 2017, including the Cape Town Refinery...

• Sinopec
• Chevron

The most actively traded May'18 contract opens 115yuan/mt lower at 23,220yuan/mt and reaches 23,255yuan/mt overnight on Zhengzhou Commod...

• ZCE
• Cotton

However, the price of viscose yarn (2 per cent) and manufacture of other textiles, woollen yarn, texturised & twisted yarn, manufacture ...

• India
• Textile

Hainan Yisheng shut its 2 million mt/yr PTA unit on Jan 15 for turnaround, which may last for 15-20 days.

• Yisheng
• PTA

Royal Dutch Shell plc has terminated the agreement to sell its A/S Dansk Shell, Denmark refining business to Dansk Olieselskab AS (DO).

• Shell

Clariant International Ltd and Global Bioenergies have developed a new bio-based polymer for cosmetic creams and lotions, which is derived from renewable isobutene.

• Clariant

Royal Dutch Shell plc has completed the sale of the first phase of its Hong Kong and Macau LPG marketing business to DCC LPG.

• Shell

Evonik Industries AG and the Fufeng Group have entered into a cooperation agreement for the production of ThreAMINO (L-threonine).

• Evonik

Hexion Inc has sold its additives technology group (ATG) business to Munzing Chemie GmbH (Munzing), a privately-owned speciality additive company headquartered in Abstatt, Germany.

• Hexion

Evonik Industries AG said that it will begin construction of an additional line for compounding its Acrylite trademarked polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) at its site in Osceola (Arkansas), in early 2018.

• Evonik

AkzoNobel NV is continuing talks with three to four possible buyers of its speciality chemicals division, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

• AkzoNobel

Asahi Kasei Corporation said that it will increase production capacity for Celgard and Hipore li-ion battery (LIB) separator at its plants in North Carolina, US, and Shiga, Japan, respectively.

• Asahi Kasei

Bayer AG has reduced its direct interest in Covestro from 24.6 percent to 14.2 percent, selling a total of 21 million shares at a price of €86.25 per share.

• Bayer

Air Products and Chemicals Inc had an agreement to acquire Royal Dutch Shell plc’s (Shell’s) coal gasification technology business as well as Shell’s patent portfolio for liquids (residue) gasification.

• Air Prosucts

Wacker Biotech GmbH said that it will produce the drug substance reteplase, the active ingredient in the drug Retavase, which the pharmaceutical company Chiesi will market in the US.

• Wacker

Covestro AG said that it has extended the contract of board of management member Dr Klaus Schafer, by five years until the end of 2022 on 1 January 2018.

• Covestro

BASF SE has launched a new website, www.basf.com/citral-plant, to inform its customers, industry stakeholders and the interested public about the progress of the repair work at its citral production plant in Ludwigshafen.

• BASF

BASF SE said that it is presenting new active ingredients for skin and hair care products that have been proven to help the skin rebalance and that strengthen it to cope with everyday stresses.

• BASF